a message for heads of schools

With the added responsibilities and accountability that school executives face today, the choices educational managers make about where to spend their time is vital to their success.

we can buy you more time & assist with 'duty of care' obligations

Partnering with McCormack Employment Services is a key time management strategy, by reducing the workload and subsequent pressures through handing over the time consuming aspects of the recruitment process. 

We find the best suited staff from our extensive candidate database or through targeted advertising; you will only be involved in interviewing short listed candidates.

Added to this we carry out extensive reference checks on your behalf ensuring that the teacher does not commence before this is done.

we do the leg work but you still make the hiring decision!

You still make the final decisions, but with much less lead time and work. Time that could be better spent with students, staff and other management issues that can be less easily out-sourced.

Schools often have to re-advertise due to not finding a suitable candidate. This can become expensive costing several thousand dollars.

The time that it takes you or a senior member of your academic team to research how to advertise effectively on the internet and in print, design and lodge the advertisement, screen applications, organise interview dates and times, conduct the interviews, consider the applicants and carry out verbal referencing would add up to on average about 20 - 30 hours. 

schools often re-run advertisements costing more than our fee!

If you have to re-run the advertisement, it would be much more. McCormack Employment Services consultants are thoroughly trained and very experienced in the design and lodgement techniques of internet advertising.

what is the real cost of recruiting yourself?

School completes recruitment alone	Cost
Hands on time (screening, interviewing, referencing based on average of $100k salary package & 25 hours work per position)	$1265
Placement of advertisement in SMH display	$2000
Placement of second advertisement in SMH display	$2000
Total Cost to School:	$5265*
School partners with McCormack's	Fee
Fees upon successful term placement (salaries up to $80,000)	$1000
Fees based on $1,000 per school term contract up to a maximum of $4,000 for a permanent placement	to $4000

*This figure assumes your organisation has the expertise in internet and print advertising required for the advertisements to reach both active & passive job seekers.

other benefits that partnering offers:

• three month replacement guarantee
• highly qualified staff with educational experience who take the time to understand your schools culture & needs
• adverts on internet job boards designed by professional recruiters who understand how to target advertising for the best results
• 100 point ID & working with children checks (when required)
• verbal reference check reports
• spelling & grammar assessments for primary teachers
• sourcing from a large specialist database

 

"We understand that educational managers experience a certain level of scepticism about non educators handling their recruitment. That is why we have qualified teachers trained as recruiters. In addition, I personally am passionate about & have respect for the valuable role that our educators play in the life long development of our children."

Cheryl McCormack, Director

 

*Note: the financial model was based on salary packaging as an average for a senior member of staff within either an Independent or Catholic school. McCormack Employment Services understands that this may differ either up or down depending on the size of the school and the seniority of the executive recruiting.