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The Importance Of Repruiting For A Lead Teacher

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Currently, Seward Child Care Center (SCCC) has been, in their own words, “flying blind” when it comes to their recruiting for a Lead Teacher. They always post on Minnesota Council of Nonprofits and Craigslist. Recently, they have tried posting on college job boards, specifically MCTC, Metro State, and Augsburg’s own career site for its students. According to Lily, the most response to a posting comes from Craigslist, and they have hired a few substitute teachers through the Augsburg job posting. Our group has come up with a few ways to try and recruit qualified applicants for a Lead Teacher position at SCCC. We believe SCCC should use the means of the internet, online college recruiting, post flyers in the local community, and use their …show more content…

Lastly, advertising a Lead Teacher position through social media, such as Facebook, would be a beneficial recruiting method, because Facebook has the “share” option. This allows for word to spread about the job posting through one simple post. Although a disadvantage to internet recruiting is that there can be an overload of resumes, we do not foresee this as being an issue for SCCC. Finding a qualified candidate is extremely important to the organization, the board of directors, and the children, so the more applicants there are to choose from, the better. The second most valuable method in recruiting for this specific position is targeting applicants from area colleges. Lily mentioned SCCC has used Augsburg’s career page to post previous positions, so this is a method SCCC is already familiar with. There are seven private universities (Hamline, St. Catherine’s, St. Thomas, Macalester, Concordia-St. Paul, Augsburg, and Bethel) located right in the Twin Cities that would be very smart to recruit soon to be graduates for the Lead Teacher position. Focusing on these seven local colleges would be the most beneficial since the locations of the campuses are all fairly close to SCCC’s location. Many students from these colleges and universities will want to stay in the metro area after graduation so these are the perfect schools to recruit

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