Mitigating risk throughout the recruitment hiring process to avoid vacancies
What happens if you still have a spot left to fill? If you have a last minute hire to make, don’t panic. The good news is, during the summer months, we still get over 60,000 candidates applying for roles each month. It may feel like a race against the clock, but there’s still time left […]
Increasing teacher applications with landing pages
Does your school have a web landing page designed specifically for your teacher recruitment? Landing pages serve a very distinct purpose over a vacancies page on your website. Generation Z teachers in particular do not want to be hunting through navigation bars and clicking numerous links until they find the information they require. This is […]
Case Study: How this education company found the adventure-seeking English teachers they needed with Teach Away
Background RVF International is an organization that partners with schools across Spain to help them find English speaking teachers to work as language assistant teachers. The Founder and CEO of RVF International, Harrison, started RVF International back in 2017 with the humble mission of bringing more English speakers interested in traveling to Spain to teach. […]
New data reveals COVID-19’s impact on where teachers want to teach abroad in 2021
The effects of the global pandemic will continue to be felt for quite some time. But as we move into the final few weeks of 2020, now is an excellent time to look ahead and identify how COVID-19 is influencing teachers who plan to work overseas in 2021. We asked thousands of teachers around the […]
Case Study: How this ESL training app hired nearly 100% of its content creators through Teach Away
Background A startup with a new spin on English-language learning, BlaBla EdTech offers a unique way of language acquisition for English-language learners all over the world. Like many entrepreneurs and founders, BlaBla’s CEO, Angelo Huang, started the company based on his personal experiences. Despite studying English for years in school, Angelo always struggled with speaking […]
Case Study: How EF Hangzhou found a teacher recruitment service flexible enough to fit their needs
Background Part of a global school chain operating in over 60 countries, EF Hangzhou is one of the largest regional English First franchises in China. Providing English lessons for kids, teens and adults across nine centers (with two more in the pipeline) is no small feat. At any one time, the centers employ 200 teachers, […]
How you can leverage your international school’s location to recruit and retain teachers
Whenever I discuss recruitment strategies with new clients, no topic comes up more often than a school’s location. It seems like school heads in Latin America, as well as the rest of the world, seem to think that their recruitment challenges would go away if their school was located elsewhere. In fact, according to the dozens […]
Building a stronger international school community
As we discussed in last week’s blog on assessing your school’s sense of community by surveying your teachers and students for their opinions, principals and school administrators should be prepared to receive some negative feedback. Perhaps it’s a symptom of soliciting opinions, but it’s hard to poll a group without receiving some mixed feedback. That […]
Why your teaching vacancies matter
As you begin your search for your newest teachers this school year, we encourage you to consider each position individually and ask yourself, “which teacher will make a difference in this position?” Hiring new teachers is no small feat. Each teacher will impact the lives of an entire classroom of learners for a whole year. […]
Teach Away Case Study: American United School of Kuwait (AUS)
For this particular private international school, Teach Away recruitment specialists offered a full-service recruitment plan including in-person interviews with school officials. One of the challenges included many last-minute vacancies to be filled. AUS provided pre-kindergarten – grade 5 instruction in its founding year, with plans to expand to middle school-level education in the 2014 – […]