Common Salary Negotiation Mistakes That Drive Away Top Teaching Candidates
Hiring the right teacher for your school is a crucial step toward ensuring educational success, but the negotiation process can sometimes complicate this. One common mistake many recruiters make is mishandling the compensation negotiation with teaching candidates. It’s easy to overlook the importance of these negotiations, especially in a competitive international education market. However, missteps […]
Evaluating Applicant Tracking Systems for Effective Teacher Recruitment
Education recruitment is a whirlwind, especially at this time of year. Many recruiting teams find themselves overwhelmed by applications, often relying on outdated tracking methods that waste time and risk overlooking exceptional educators. With growing to-do lists and lack of time, schools can’t afford to lose star candidates due to outdated or inefficient processes. The […]
How Will the Future of AI Impact Your Recruitment Strategy in 2025?
The future of recruitment is not just approaching – it’s here. Teach Away’s 8th annual International Education Recruitment Report dives into the Future of Education Recruitment: AI, Automation, & Advancements. The IERR surveyed 6,800 educators navigating the teacher recruitment landscape today. Insights on job searching in the age of AI gives us a look into […]
The One Mistake All Recruiters Make
Many recruiters, feeling the pressure to fill teaching vacancies quickly, often make the same one mistake: asking candidates for documents upfront. Some of the most commonly requested documentation includes: While this is usually done with the intention of streamlining the hiring process, asking too early in the process can have the opposite effect—overwhelming and discouraging […]
The Best Way To Fill A Difficult Position At Your School
School leaders across the globe face a common struggle: filling critical teaching positions in high-demand subjects. From STEM fields to special education, certain roles consistently prove challenging to staff, leaving schools scrambling to meet student needs. Factors contributing to this issue include: As schools grapple with these staffing gaps, innovative recruitment strategies become essential. Here, […]
How you can leverage your international school’s location to recruit and retain teachers
Whenever I discuss recruitment strategies with new clients, no topic comes up more often than a school’s location. It seems like school heads in Latin America, as well as the rest of the world, seem to think that their recruitment challenges would go away if their school was located elsewhere. In fact, according to the dozens […]
How to improve your outreach and land more interviews
I’m Sara. I’m an Education Partnerships Executive here at Teach Away, which means that every day, I talk to leaders, administrators, and hiring managers at schools around the globe. My job is to help them improve their recruitment and hiring processes through a partnership with Teach Away. In my role – assisting schools and organizations, […]
How to change a good school to a great school
What separates good schools from great schools? Since we know you’ve moved mountains (or at least scoured the globe) to find the best teachers possible, often times transforming your school from good to great can mean only a few small administrative adjustments. Great schools, put simply, are the schools that identify and implement the strategies […]
How to attract great STEM teachers
Now more than ever, new job openings are requiring candidates to have basic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) literacy. In fact, a new report suggests that 60% of jobs now require these skills. This means that in order to best prepare children for their careers in the future, teachers should continue to emphasize the […]
Teach Away Case Study: American United School of Kuwait (AUS)
For this particular private international school, Teach Away recruitment specialists offered a full-service recruitment plan including in-person interviews with school officials. One of the challenges included many last-minute vacancies to be filled. AUS provided pre-kindergarten – grade 5 instruction in its founding year, with plans to expand to middle school-level education in the 2014 – […]