WorkinSchools is a brand new service for schools and the education recruitment sector it is an online social and professional network solely for people who work in education.
The creation of the site has been inspired by the increased use of social media in the recruitment sector as a tool for candidate sourcing. This combined with teachers being discouraged from using casual social networks due to the possible pupil interaction, makes a professional social network for teachers and education recruiters a match made in heaven.
WorkinSchools is a place where people employed in education can network with friends and colleagues in a safe, pupil-free online environment; this is coupled with a sophisticated job search engine and candidate search for recruitment within the sector.
Education recruiters can join the network and for a cost-effective membership fee they can promote their agency with a profile page, advertise unlimited vacancies and search candidates who are registered and using the network.
Education recruitment agencies can also use the network as a platform to help organise their own supply pool. Schools can notify agencies of supply requirements and the agencies in turn can communicate with, check availability and book supply staff over the network.
The site offers excellent social communication tools such as status updates, commenting, private mail, forums and an essential instant messenger.
These social tools allow the users to network, share teaching resources and use the site as an advice platform. This will enable our education employers to ‘graze’ on a captive audience of passive job seekers.
Both the TES and DCSF Schools recruitment website have job search functionality but neither offer much to people who are not currently looking for work, WorkinSchools has features that appeal to everyone working in the education sector. Users need not be looking for a job to have reason to visit the site. Therefore education recruiters can capture the users that don’t know they are looking until the right job pops up in front of them!
WorkinSchools launched at www.workinschools.co.uk on Monday 8th March 2010 within one month the network has just under a thousand members and many leading education recruiters have embraced the site.
Feedback from both education professionals and employers has been extremely positive. The directors of WorkinSchools are confident the network will make a beneficial impact on education recruitment and the sector as a whole.
For further information and sales please call 0844 544 4929 and to register on the network go to www.workinschools.co.uk.
