Your staffing solutions

Your staffing challenges are solved …

Using a unique solution

Creating a unique, international solution

By accessing over 2 million Qualified Teachers

Accessing 2M+ degree-qualified EC teachers in developing nations

By selecting the best

Identifying outstanding teachers with excellent English to join your organisation

With an end-to-end service

Providing an end-to-end service including alternative visa pathways, accommodation assistance, and retention strategies

Recruitment Process

Detailed Employer Brief

We will take a detailed employer brief including identifying the skills, experience and attributes of the perfect candidates.

Skills

What abilities would your ideal candidate have?

Experience 

We will determine whether your company needs highly experienced employees or wishes to hire staff with less experience on lower salaries. In certain positions, a few years of experience is critical, while others allow for more learning on the job.

Attributes

Candidate attributes and qualities are often just as important as skill sets in your recruits, if not more important. Your company may find that it prioritises a ‘can do’ attitude, teamwork and outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.

Detailed Position Description

From the detailed client brief we will develop a position description including key responsibilities, candidate profile, career opportunity and employer benefits.

Following the detailed client brief, we will devise your recruitment strategy.  This may include sourcing candidates from our pool of pre-qualified Talent, Advertising, Social Media Marketing Campaigns and Search.

We will conduct in depth interviews to ascertain candidates skills, experience, attributes, and assess their suitability for your vacancy.

Screen and Shortlist Candidates.

Following our detailed interview process we will provide you with a shortlist of recommended candidates. This list will include their own CV and a brief description of each candidate including, what we like, any possible issues, availability, and our recommendation.

We will organise interviews, in person or via video for you to meet and assess recommended candidates.

Mock Lesson Plan Presentation

We recommend that each candidate prepares a mock lesson plan on a topic of your choice and presents it to you to give you a sense of how they work and will perform in the role.

Reference Checks

Once you have chosen suitable candidates we will conduct detailed reference checks. These checks will include a candidate’s technical skills, communication, interpersonal skills, reliability, ability to adapt to different environments, suitability for your role etc.

Communicating Offers and Negotiation

We will help you to communicate your employment offer to candidates, facilitate any required negotiations, follow up letters of offer and agree target start dates.

We organise teacher registrations with ACECQA and State bodies for the recruits with eligible Bachelor Degrees in EC Teaching who have outstanding proficiency in English [IELTS 7.5]. These recruits are eligible for skilled migration visas (temporary or permanent).

Our other candidates have IELTS score of 6.5/7.0 (or equivalent). For them we organise student visas and top up tertiary studies, generally over 16 to 24 months. These Australian studies satisfy all ACECQA’s requirements including English proficiency.

Alternative Visa and Registration Pathways 

We can advise employers on the choice of visa to use for bringing in chosen recruits. The main options are skilled work visas (temporary or permanent) and study visas. The advantages for skilled work visas include shorter lead times if the employer is registered as a sponsor and has already advertised locally without success. The costs to land a teacher using skilled worker visas exceed those for a study visa by more than $10,000.

The advantages of study visas are lower initial costs and access to the higher numbers of good teachers with more-than-adequate English. Study costs are high, but generally overseas teachers without IELTS 7.5 are happy to do these top up studies and bear most or all tuition costs, given reasonable relocation assistance.

Currently, these are the two main pathways for overseas recruitment. Relevant requirements can change quickly. For instance, ECEC industry waivers and other regulations are in a state of flux due to increasing demand and the severity of staff shortages; immigration rules change often. We monitor policy debates, anticipate possible changes, and can rapidly adjust our recommended pathways accordingly. Fortunately, the direction of change in immigration policies is towards greater liberalisation of access to overseas skills.

Onboarding 

We will keep in touch with candidates to ensure all steps are in place for starting their new role with you. This may include ensuring they have :

  • A current Working with Children Check
  • Any other regulatory and business requirements are met such as police checks
  • Finalised travel arrangements
  • Secured suitable initial accommodation
  • Enrolled in a suitable tertiary course
  • Secured appropriate visas
  • Appropriate insurances for example travel and health cover

Post Placement Follow Up

We will also conduct regular follow up with you and the recruits to check that they are settling in and that all parties are happy with the placement.

Acclimatisation for International Recruits 

Once in Australia we will be in regular contact with candidates to make sure they are happy and settling into work and life in Australia.

Recruitment Guarantee – Free Replacement

 

We will find you, free of charge, new candidates meeting the position requirements if a candidate we recruited for you:

  • resigns or abandons their work within 90 days, or
  • is terminated after performance management processes or
  • abandons fulltime studies where this is a condition of their visa, or
  • is found to have included any false qualifications in their application 

This guarantee has conditions including on time payment of our invoices and timely notification of developments in the recruit’s employment. The detailed conditions are stated in the Recruitment Contract.