All change for school recruitment
The Department for Children, Schools & Families (DCSF) are ploughing full steam ahead with the roll out of their new Schools Recruitment Service ready for it’s launch in early 2009.
The service, designed to provide a “better process for recruiting permanent teaching and support staff” is making appearances at this months National Bursars Association Annual Conference and the BETT Show in January 2009.
Whilst on the face of it this seems a good idea; to consolidate the school recruitment process into one, easy-to-use, manageable service, there are some concerns over the roll out of the service. The department have a good track record of producing half baked, mediocre services for schools which aren’t actually up to the job.
Other concerns are that the new service may well begin to draw business from school recruitment suppliers currently working in the sector, resulting in further job losses in an already struggling industry.
We hold our breath for 2009 where we’ll be able to see just how the new service works, how many schools sign-up and actually if the service is it’s all that it’s cracked up to be. If we go by the departments previous history, there’s nothing for current suppliers to worry about, it’ll be a short term fad that schools get fed-up trying to battle with within a very short space of time.
For you enjoyment, their promo clip below:
