The UK’s leading online school recruitment business has reported record figures in the first three months of 2011, despite schools facing budget cuts and the bleak financial climate. Headteachers are increasingly turning to Eteach.com’s online solution as a more cost-effective alternative to expensive vacancy advertising.
In March over a hundred schools started recruiting with Eteach, bringing the total to over 6,000. Candidate numbers showed a dramatic improvement, with new members and active jobseekers up by 30%, users on its candidate career portal up by 145%, while over 15,000 candidates joined its School and Regional Talent Pools.
With schools facing cuts of nearly 5% in real terms and one in six English secondary schools in deficit, Eteach offers school substantial savings in teacher recruitment. Traditional recruitment advertising can cost a secondary school up to £25,000 per year, whereas a yearly subscription with Eteach is £3,000 for unlimited vacancy advertising.
Schools should cut recruitment costs, not jobs
Paul Howells, an ex-teacher who founded Eteach ten years ago, says the cost of recruitment is threatening education provision and teaching jobs: “We’re hearing from headteachers that they’re having to cut spending to the bone and that the only realistic solution for many schools is to make redundancies.”
Howells is committed to the cost-savings offered by online recruitment: “In a time of austerity it makes no sense for schools to be spending a fortune on traditional recruitment advertising – they should be able to invest their budget in education. Schools are moving to Eteach because it’s great value and it works.”
