Top Challenges in International Teacher Recruitment:

International schools face significant competition and a growing challenge to find, attract, retain, and recruit quality teaching staff. These are the top challenges schools face. Do you agree?

• Increase in the volume of applications from unqualified applicants requiring resources to sift and select. It takes schools - on average - approx. 20mins to download and sort through each application and CV to find a suitable match for interview.
• Expensive and restrictive recruitment services that provide no feedback, data or market insights to help ensure schools remain competitive in the recruitment market. It costs on average $2,500 just to advertise one position.
• The cost for recruitment through traditional routes has increased by 40% since 2020 and yet the number of quality applicants has reduced.
• The traditional recruitment hubs of UK, Australia, Canada, USA are attracting fewer learners into teacher training. Less teachers are entering the profession, so fewer teachers are looking to teach overseas. Schools need to find new ways of attracting teachers. 
• Most teacher recruitment services are UK centric, with limited international range or engagement, and yet the majority of international schools teachers are already working overseas.
• Current recruitment solutions require teachers to invest time searching through jobs boards. This doesn’t appeal to digital native Gen Z or Millennials who use apps for food, social networking, e-commerce, dating, creating and productivity, and now for recruitment. To stay competitive, schools need to adopt the next generation of recruitment solutions to engage Gen Z and Millennials.

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