RECRUITMENT PARTNERSHIPS
FOR SCHOOLS
TALENT ATTRACTION IN A
CHALLENGING MARKET
About Hays Recruitment Partnerships
Identifying and hiring the right candidates for permanent MPS, TLR and
support staff vacancies is vital to the morale and achievement of any
school. Through a combination of online and offline marketing & the
latest recruitment technologies Hays has delivered an exceptional 96% first
time fill rate in the schools that we partner with nationwide.
We currently work with over 200 schools, colleges and academies nationwide
to recruit for their permanent MPS, TLR and support staff vacancies.
Working on an exclusive basis we identify the unique qualities of your
institution and develop a bespoke recruitment campaign to promote your
vacancies to the optimum target audience.
Our aim is to build long-term partnerships with our client schools, some of
whom we’ve worked with for over six years. More than 80% of our customers
renew their partnership each year, using Hays as their sole supplier of new
staff.
We help our clients recruit in the following areas:
- Primary
- Secondary
- Early Years
- Teaching Assistants
- Support Staff
- International
- Leadership
- Further Education
- SEN
Staffing within special schools can also present challenges that mainstream
schools do not face. A Permanent Recruitment Partnership is an efficient and
effective way to ensure that you recruit the highest quality candidates
taking in to account the uniqueness of your setting. Hays has a proven track
record of supporting a diverse range of schools – all of whom require an
individual service.
Scroll down to find out more about what we offer, how we do it and examples
of clients we work with. Please contact us to discuss your recruiting
requirements in more detail and how a recruitment partnership through Hays
could be the solution to your candidate attraction needs.
Hays Partnership is an agreement with a school, academy or MAT. As a partner
you will benefit from a priority level of service and extra support to
deliver the best value recruitment service.
In addition to a dedicated local account management team, you will also have
access to your own fast and secure web portal – the Education
Hub.
A personal localised service, combined with innovative technology for whole
school, academy and MAT recruitment.
In return for giving us an exclusive lead time on your vacancies, you will
have a fast and secure way to manage your temp staff and gain access to a
range of benefits only we can provide. Our Hays Partnership rewards
include:
- Preferential fixed
rates
Preferential rates will be agreed in line with your budgetary requirements. A transparent approach to all recruitments costs. - A dedicated account
manager
Your account manager will be your single point of contact for all Hays services, making your immediate, long-term and future recruitment requirements as straightforward and efficient as possible.
- Specified lead response
times
We will work with you to design a personalised response time for all types of temporary vacancies. - The Education
Hub
Innovative technology offering fast, secure access and MI at the click of a button. - Priority access to preferred
candidates
We will create a ‘pool’ of suitable candidates for your school, academy or MAT. - Extended working
interviews
Temporary staff recommended by Hays for assignments of four weeks or more can be provided for a half-day trial working interview.
- Streamlined
Invoicing
Reduce administration time, with one invoice for all your temporary staff.
Optional extras
As a Hays partner you will also benefit from a range of added value
services.
- Online training
packages
Receive a discount on our Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Health & Safety in Education online training. - Permanent recruitment
packages
Discounted fees on our Permanent Recruitment Partnership. Bespoke attraction and networking campaigns, using your branding across our digital estate targeting our network of engaged candidates.
- Head office and MAT
roles
You will have access to our annual UK salary and recruiting trends and the experience of our 21 specialist sectors including Accountancy & Finance, Education Leadership, HR, Facilities Management and IT.
What we offer
Dedicated account manager
A local expert who facilitates the entire recruitment process. From advertising planning to pre-screening candidates and increasing the number of completed applications you receive.
Attract in-demand and passive candidates
Our campaigns are particularly good for sourcing in-demand talent – the highly sought after skills that are all too rare. These candidates need to be impressed if they’re to move jobs and will want to know all about a potential employer before they apply. Many of these individuals will be ‘passive’ job seekers and only interested in the perfect role.
We find the right candidates for the right job
This is simply the most important element of what we do, and we do it well. We know what works, what doesn’t work and we build our campaigns around that. Our expertise is proven in always finding the right candidate for the right job.
Elevate your School or Trust brand and value proposition
What is it that makes your organisation an employer of choice? What is it that makes it different, more attractive to potential recruits? Employers increasingly understand the need to define their employer brand and EVP (employee value proposition) if they’re to hire the best talent. Our campaigns complement these approaches and in many cases, help lead them.
Stringent vetting and checking
We ensure the safety of everyone involved with our stringent vetting processes in line with DFE ‘Safer Recruitment’ guidelines, this is all done prior to interview.
Access to discounted media rates
Our media buying reach allows Hays to pass on market-leading discounts to clients. There are few media networks or recruitment agencies with the same partnerships we’ve developed over many years.
Database marketing strategies
Phone calls, networking, targeted emails, postcards and SMS advertising your vacancies to our nationwide database of over 80,000 candidates.
Applicant database
We can quickly promote your vacancy to our database of 80,000 active candidates. Helping to quickly source the right individuals.
Targeted, measurable and effective
A key benefit of our campaigns is being able to track and report, with a complete statistical analysis for every position. This allows us to optimise results, identify where applicants saw the vacancy advertised and maximise your return on investment.
Optimised for mobile and tablets
We use Responsive Web Design as a standard part of our approach which means that all recruitment microsites are fully accessible regardless of device used.
Flexibility
We avoid a 'one size fits all' approach by making sure that your recruitment strategy is tailored to both the role and your School or Trust. Our expert teams remove the administrative burden of your recruitment whist leaving you in control of the decision making process, delivering affordable and effective permanent recruitment solutions where you need them most.
NQT marketing strategies
University and ITT presentations at recruitment events throughout the UK and Ireland.
Our services
Our experienced recruiters understand what it takes to make your school stand out to any potential new employees. These characteristics will be highlighted in a proactive candidate attraction strategy designed to meet your specific requirements.
Recruitment microsites
Video packages
Job board advertising
Recruitment microsite
Our full employer branded bespoke solution with extensive job board advertising,
creaties an engaging candidate experience that will showcase your organisation
as an employer of choice.
Accommodate any scale of recruitment campaign, whether high volume contingency,
or specific single role requirements. Available with a comprehensive list of
flexible content features, with our microsites you can build a truly bespoke and
integrated talent acquisition solution.
Each microsite receives priority promotion on hays.co.uk as a high profile
'featured employer' for the duration of your campaign.
Effectiveness
A digital recruitment campaign site remains the most effective way to target and engage a wide pool of candidates and convert these into your future workforce. Smartphone users and passive candidates can be attracted through the 'Apply with LinkedIn' button.
Video packages
Amongst our services we offer our clients the option to showcase their school
using a promotional video and 360 degree video tours of the school grounds.
On the right is a playlist of a school video we have made for our clients.
Job board advertising
Our buying power and close working relationships with job boards means we are
able to offer the best deals for our clients, passing on significant discounts.
An effective candidate attraction tool, our job board portfolio consists of only
the best performing boards, with a range of generalist and specialist boards to
target any audience, no matter how niche.
Campaign promotion
Our recruitment campaigns are supported by a wide range of traffic drivers, providing maximum exposure across digital media channels. From job board advertising and social media, to optimising our content for the best SEO, we utilise best practice in online resourcing.
hays.co.uk
All active campaigns are logo branded as 'featured employers' and displayed on specialism-relevant pages. Each associated job is also logo branded and prominently displayed on the 'sponsored jobs' right column. Each job contains a link to the microsite for more information.
Email marketing
Hays has the largest candidate database with over a million registered users. We are able to harness this with our client branded email campaigns, with the ability to hone searches based on sector, location, salary expectations and specific skills to name a few. Our email campaigns are hugely successful, boasting open and click through rates that are double the industry standard.
Hays has an enhanced relationship with LinkedIn, and is currently the 5th most influential UK brand and 25th most followed global company on the site. With a growing following of over 600,000, this ranks Hays first in the recruitment industry. We are able to leverage this to appeal to a truly unique audience, with job and content postings promoting client campaigns.
Search and SEO
We utilise best practice for SEO across all of our recruitment microsites to ensure its visibility in searches. As each campaign is unique, content is optimised specifically for your site. Each campaign is monitored regularly for the duration it is live, allowing us to make changes and enhance if necessary to help further improve SEO.
Analytics
All of our traffic drivers are tracked using our bespoke code within our sites. This enables us to monitor how each channel is performing, giving us the ability to offer advice on the successes of a campaign and where it could be improved. With live reporting, we can update at any point during the campaign lifecycle, and track applications from job boards.
Social
Through our popular social media channels, such as @hayseducationuk and our Facebook page we’re able to share and promote campaigns to a larger audience, attracting passive candidates. Our growing Google+ presence is also useful to improve SEO, and ultimately drive more traffic to recruitment sites.
Our work
We're proud to have developed bespoke recruitment campaigns for a range of schools across the country. Our aim is to build long-term partnerships with our client schools, some of whom we’ve worked with for over six years. You can find a selection of the sites we’ve created for our partner schools, colleges and academies below.
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- Free schools
- High Schools
- Independent schools
- International schools
- Leadership
- Primary schools
- SEN
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Testimonials
“Hays were committed to support our school in finding the very best of candidates that were suited to our fast paced ethos and values of the school. The Hays team initially visited our school and met our staff and students so that they had a solid understanding of what we were trying to achieve. This initial investment was invaluable as The Hays team had a good understanding of what we wanted and needed in our school.
Mr D. Lisowski, Head Teacher for and on behalf of the Trustees of Sidney Stringer Multi Academy Trust
“I have come to absolutely trust Mike and respect his integrity, advice and work ethic. Furthermore, as the ‘point of contact’ for us for Hays, he is an excellent ambassador for the organisation. The quality of the relationship that we have established with Hays, as a result of Mike’s positive engagement is such that I have been and would continue to be unreserved in my recommendation of Hays recruitment services to schools.
Mark Atherton, Deputy Head KEFW
“I have worked with Hays, and more specifically Michael Sherwin for some years now across two schools in two different counties. I have always found Mike to be proactive and supportive in advance of and throughout the recruitment process. He has a good sense of what we are looking for and is persistent about finding us the right candidates. Mike is always on the other end of the phone – whatever the time. This is hugely reassuring and helpful, particularly during the high pressure recruitment weeks around resignation deadline dates. Recruitment candidates also report that they feel well supported, and their contact with Mike reflects positively on the school, leading to a high success rate for recruitment.
Siobhan Evans, Principal, Ashlawn School
“The Hays team have offered Warwick Secondary trainees a wealth of CPD opportunities during the training year, which entirely complement the work done by academics in the department and mentors out in schools. The mock interviews have been incredibly successful, and always come out positively in the end of course reviews. Hays’ deep and extensive knowledge of the ITE sector means they’re able to offer the right advice to all trainees
Paul Taylor-McCartney, Head of Secondary Teacher Education, The University of Warwick
“Hays have revolutionised our recruitment procedures. We were impressed by the choice presented to us by the size of the fields sourced by Hays and the quality of professionals each field brought. With the recruitment challenges facing all education, this was a new and exciting and we are facing next year with greater optimism. We will certainly continue to work with Hays and recommend them to you.
Anna Fisher, Principal, Lancaster Academy, Leicester
“Working with Hays we have recruited
staff to a range of permanent positions from Assistant Head Teacher to Teaching
Assistants…the quality of our staff appointments has risen to a consistently
high standard. This has had positive impact on all aspects of our school life.
The service provided by Hays also reduces the admin burden on the school office
related to staff appointments and Hays are able to give time, attention and
individual interest to potential candidates that a school office is often unable
to offer. I have no hesitation in recommending their services to others.
Moira Hunt, Headteacher, Lister Primary School, Bradford
“This arrangement has allowed the school to concentrate on its core purpose, whilst Hays have managed the recruitment process from start to finish. This has taken a significant amount of pressure away from the school. The arrangement is highly effective, conducted in a professional manner and is a model worthy of replication in schools in similar circumstances to our own.
Colin Bell, Headteacher, South Leeds High School, Leeds
“Hays are a professional partner with whom we have a positive and effective relationship. Working with Hays saves the school significant work and time, whilst sourcing a range and quality of candidates. Working with Hays gives us the reassurance that process, and outcome will be smoothly and efficiently managed.
G. Saunders, Head teacher, Shipston High School, Warwickshire
“By using the recruitment expertise of Hays, we have been rewarded with an array of high quality candidates to fill numerous teaching posts including many shortage subjects as well as a couple of senior leadership appointments over the last couple of years.
Mike Smith, Headteacher, Phoenix Collegiate, Sandwell
“Working with Hays as our Recruitment Partner really takes the stress out of the process of recruiting teachers. We have successfully appointed on every occasion and without feeling that we are settling for second best.
Alder Community High School, Tameside
“Working with Hays has been a pleasure with them providing great lines of communication and quality advice. Our relationship with Hays has also opened additional opportunities for our students and staff that we are most grateful of
Steve Nixon, Denton Community College, Tameside
“Through our partnership with Hays, we have been able to recruit some exceptional teachers to the Trust. We have successfully welcomed colleagues through the highly successful partnership we have with Hays; and our working partnership continues from strength to strength
David Clayton – Chief Executive, Chief Executive, All Saints MAT, Liverpool
“I decided to work with Hays for several reasons. First, I like the people I work with, who are pleasant, knowledgeable, professional and always do as they promise. They also pay close attention to understanding their clients so that they introduce candidates who are likely to be of interest to the school, rather than being inundated with many clearly unsuitable staff. This approach has enabled me to recruit many quality staff through Hays over the past few years, often at very reasonable rates compared with external advertising and recruitment. Considering this, I would recommend any school or Headteacher to speak with Hays about their services.
Adrian Kneeshaw – CEO, Carlton Academy Trust
“We were struggling to attract quality fields for interviews and needed to do something different from what we had always done. By working with Hays we have seen better quality candidates matching the needs of our school. Recruitment is essential to school improvement and Hays gives you the edge
Rod Sims, Head of School, York High School
“Effective staff recruitment is of course of huge importance for all of our schools. Since using Hays, I have been impressed with their knowledge of the sector, their willingness to accommodate our particular requirements and their flexibility.
Rob Reed, Executive Principal South East Cluster, Brighton
“Our contact at Hays is superb and the service we have had is second to none. Communication is very strong so we are always kept up to date about how recruitment is proceeding and nothing ever seems to be too much trouble. With their help, we have filled several key posts with very high quality staff. I have full confidence in Hays and recommend them without hesitation
Adele Barrett, Deputy Headteacher The Misbourne School, Buckinghamshire
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