For many schools, recruiting permanent staff can be an expensive and stressful experience due to restrictions on when permanent teachers must resign.  To help alleviate this pressure, Randstad Education is launching a “free job posting” service for schools ahead of their next resignation deadline at the end of May.

Randstad works with schools to provide both temporary and permanent teaching staff.  To maximise further the response opportunities for schools and teachers, Randstad will also publish many of these vacancies to sector specific job boards and offer advice on the content of adverts to return the best results.

Randstad Education’s strategic operations manager, Stewart McCoy explains “One of the first considerations for schools when they are faced with a vacancy is to advertise in a national newspaper. This can be expensive and offers no guarantees of success.  At a time when schools are trying to cut costs, permanent recruitment can be an unpredictable and often unbudgeted expense.  Randstad Education is excited about launching a service to schools that will help them to reduce the costs of newspaper advertising, which can run in to thousands of pounds for a single vacancy.

The additional benefit to schools is that they can advertise as many vacancies as they need to with no cost implications. Schools will receive the applications directly to a nominated person and follow the same process as though they were advertising in a newspaper.  In the digital world of work, applicants can set up alerts on the randstadeducation.co.uk website, which means that vacancies drop in to their email inbox as soon as it’s published to the website. This process ensures a quick response from a targeted applicant group.