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16 Headteacher recruitment (primary)

18 Oct, 2019 17:31

Hello all. I work in HR but I am also a parent governor in a small maintained primary school. The headteacher is retiring after 25 years and the governors need to recruit a new head. Does anyone have any advice regarding recruitment please? The plan is to advertise in TES and social media, possibly using a paid for Facebook advert. I don't have any experience of recruiting in education (I work in the environmental sector and previously housing) so any help would be much appreciated.

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Lesley | 0 Posts

21 Oct, 2019 12:28

In reply to Nina Waters:
Definitely echo Nina's advice.

TES is absolutely the place to go, but they know this, so charge accordingly. Just go online, but with a minimum silver package, ideally gold as the lower packages barely get any views (they get deprioritised in listings). Their ATS is actually pretty good too for doing your shortlisting on - ask for access to the school account and you can view all the applications directly in TES, side-by-side.

Facebook is not a bad shout for teachers, but probably not so relevant for leadership roles. Twitter is actually a great place to raise awareness of teacher vacancies - there's a strong education community on there and you can target particular subjects/specialisms with appropriate hashtags. If your school has an account, it's worth tweeting a link to the TES advert plenty of times over the recruitment window - costs nothing and helps you get more bang out of the TES buck!
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