[Petition]Provide a free school recruitment website

[elsiegee40]

With overstretched school budgets, this would be VERY useful!

 

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/214287

 

I’m guessing it will be shot down as government nationalisation by TES, etc but we can only hope

Edited March 11, 2018 by elsiegee40

[synaesthesia]

Every little helps. Recruitment is difficult and expensive, certainly not helped by teaching currently being one of the worst careers you could hope to get into currently If they sorted out all the issues surrounding teaching, recruitment would be SO much easier.

[FN-GM]

Brilliant idea! I have signed this.

[6Foot2]

Petition signed. Sadly I do not believe that it will have any effect. But one can hope.

 

[southhamster]

Done. I'm sure the same applies to the NHS too.

[Norphy]

I don’t necessarily disagree with the sentiment but these services aren’t free to run. If the schools aren’t going to pay for a service like this, who is? The money has to come from somewhere; chances are budget would be taken from the schools to cover the costs.

[elsiegee40]

I don’t necessarily disagree with the sentiment but these services aren’t free to run. If the schools aren’t going to pay for a service like this, who is? The money has to come from somewhere; chances are budget would be taken from the schools to cover the costs.

If the DfE is going to run our budgets into the ground then maybe the cost of providing such a site will pay for itself in terms of schools not spending a fortune with recruitment sharks

[jdoyle]

signed.

[difinity]

Signed, I think it's a good idea.

It's not just a website that's needed though, reducing the stress of teachers so they don't leave and encouraging some of those supply teachers costing £500 million a year to be directly employed would help also.

[FishCustard]

I completely agree with the idea, although I also fear that if it were implemented the DfE would just nick the money from elsewhere, leading to something of a zero-sum game.

 

Many 'educational specialist' recruiters are expensively useless - they'll just stick their brand on the pack the school provide, send it off to the TES and charge a commission. I'm sure some are great, but many are pointless.

[Meldrew]

Signed, but if it did get off the ground, the government would give the contract to Capita who would charge £x million for it and it would be an unusable mess.

 

Meldrew

[mavhc]

Should be: Provide a free, libre, open source school recruitment website. At a guess it would cost £100k per year to run once setup, 1 dev plus hosting costs, other technical people can sell services for support and feature development as required.

[DSapseid]

I saw this one mentioned on linkedin over the weekend.

 

Jobs in Schools

[elsiegee40]

I saw this one mentioned on linkedin over the weekend.

 

Jobs in Schools

 

And I have registered with it. It’s awful. You have to search within each authority separately. You can’t just search for IT roles (say)

 

So for people like me who could easily travel to multiple LAs we would have to go into each authority one at a time.

[limbo]

Hi elsigee40

 

You can absolutely search for IT roles without going by LA.

 

All you need to do is put your postcode into the relevant search box and then the distance. This will then filter all the jobs for you and you can select the category IT / Data.

 

You can then save that search so it emails you jobs as they are posted so you do not need to keep going to the site to check for new posts (which has to be the ultimate goal surely?)

 

That said, we always welcome feedback. Nobody is making any money out of the site at all, and never will so any help is gratefully recieved.

 

The feedback from schools is generally positive because of how easy it is to post a vacancy, how easy it is to embed those on your school website so you do not have to update in more than one place and of course the fact it is completely free.

 

It also makes use of twitter and is running parallel with the DfE's Schools Buying Strategy by using collaboration through local SBM networks.

 

Perhaps worth a second look?

[limbo]

I don’t necessarily disagree with the sentiment but these services aren’t free to run. If the schools aren’t going to pay for a service like this, who is? The money has to come from somewhere; chances are budget would be taken from the schools to cover the costs.

 

You are absolutely right - the DfE it is a massive overhead that someone ultimately has to fund. the JobsInSchools.org model is relatively effective in terms of funding the infrastructure, but it still relies on volunteers to maintain it and code it.

 

But by far the biggest cost would be marketing. There is so much money thrown at marketing by the commerical job boards that it is really hard to make a dent. Over 15% of schools nationally are involved in our particular project which is not an insignificant number - but is it still really hard to get traction.

 

Ultimately I suspect the DfE will never get this off the ground becuase it would probably mean putting companies like TES and eTeach out of business completely - which I cannot see them wanting to do.

[simonw]

Signed