Recruitment & Retention Suite
In this 8-part Recruitment & Retention Suite, we will explore strategies for crafting an effective job announcement, understanding the market for talent in your area, finding quality talent, reviewing resumes and applications, interviewing potential employees, conducting reference checks, extending an offer of employment, and components of successful onboarding experiences.
An Effective Job Announcement
When a position opens in your program, you want to find the most qualified person to fill that role. But how do you connect with potential applicants? One way is by creating a three-part job announcement.
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Understanding the Market for Talent in Your Area
In this tool, we will share easy ways to find out how much others in your state and community are paying child care educators and how you can use this knowledge in making decisions for your own business.
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Finding Talent
Having (or not having) quality employees can make or break you in the child care business. However, finding that talent can often be difficult. To help you with this process, here is a simple yet effective research-based approach to finding and attracting the best talent for your organization.
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Reviewing Resumes and Applications
Reviewing resumes and applications is an important step in your hiring process. The steps outlined in this guide will help find the most qualified candidates in that pool and set up your interview process to be efficient and successful.
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Interviewing New Child Care Employees
The interview process is a crucial step in hiring and vetting candidates. After you have reviewed applications and resumes to pick a group of candidates, you will want to interview them to figure out which individual is right for the job and also to leave candidates with a good impression of your company.
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Conducting Reference Checks
The main goal of a reference check is to learn more about the candidate and to hear from people who have known or worked with the candidate. This process can help you better understand the person you are wanting to hire and assist you in verifying what you have come to know about the person.
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Extending an Offer
This guide will explain the steps of extending an offer to an individual that you want to hire and extending an employment agreement.
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Bringing on a New Employee
Congratulations on hiring your new employee! As you bring them on, there are two key processes you’ll want to undertake. First, you will want to onboard them – that is have a process to welcome them onto the team and give them a sense of how the organization runs and its culture. Second, you’ll want to run the internal processes to set up your new employee so they are ready to be paid and supported from the start.
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