Recruit and retain the best people
An HR management system to help you fight the teacher shortage
Attract the right fit now with retention-first recruiting and a system to help make it happen.
Hiring and retaining the right people for your school district has never been easy, but right now, it’s especially challenging. Amid a nationwide teacher shortage, every HR team needs support and a collaborative strategy to attract and retain the best people, both in and out of the classroom.
So how does that happen?
Work together, work backward
Team members across departments — from school and district leadership to HR to curriculum and instructional leads — can collaborate for an effective recruiting strategy. Education is all about backward planning: teachers see where they want their students to be and break down learning into steps to help them get there. Recruiting can follow the same principle!
So, where do you want hires to be, ultimately? The answer is probably working and growing in your district for many years to come!
Start with a model of success
Start by finding those people — the ones who have worked and grown within your district successfully for years. These are your veteran classroom teachers(the greats), your long-term counselors, school nurses, and bus drivers. Find those people.
Particularly with veteran teachers who have a proven track-record of positive student learning outcomes in their classroom, you can collaborate with curriculum and instructional leads to understand exactly what makes them so successful. Then, you can intentionally recruit for that character profile in mind.
Break down silos with HRMS
In this way, siloed information hurts retention — and open lines of communication improve it! Working collaboratively, you can get strategic about recruiting and onboarding, so that from day one, the person who is the right fit — not the right now fit — joins your school district and starts growing.
When we talk about professional learning, it isn’t only the responsibility of HR to come up with a plan. And it isn’t only the responsibility of an instructional lead to manage 1-to-1. It’s both! HRMS that helps communication and planning happen more seamlessly means that teachers grow — and stay.
When HR collaborates with Instructional Growth leaders, teachers get more support
Professional Learning-focused
When employees grow — they stay! HRMS software that helps you collaborate with instructional teams to understand and implement the right growth plan for a teacher can boost retention.
Employee-centered
No two new employees walk through the doors of your school the same, so individualized coaching and mentorship yields the most growth. Teachers are expected to “differentiate” for students, so when they’re handed a platter of one-size-fits-all professional development, it’s easy to feel like they’ve been sidelined.
Built on mentoring & measurement
Employees recruited through retention-first practices will be more likely to be able to receive and learn from feedback (because you backward planned for it!), so the cycle of mentoring and measurement can lead to growth. And when people grow, people stay.
Fosters instructional maturity
With the right support, a new teacher can refine their craft over years, until their one of the greats. They want that success; students rely on it — and your school district needs it. Commitment to collaboration, strategic planning for retention-first recruiting, and the right tools can get you there.
The right tools put employees at the center
With Frontline HRMS, you can easily collaborate with school and district leaders, finance, and curriculum and instructional leads so that recruiting efforts are intentional and targeted and support is tailored.
Align with Finance
Before recruiting efforts begin, customize workflows to your process to ensure that the hiring budget is ready to go.
Proactively Recruit Talent
Breaking down siloes helps recruit, hire, and onboard talent with an intentional strategy towards employee-centered growth and retention.
Control HR Data
Use comprehensive, real-time data to inform workforce planning, organizational mapping, and position management.
Streamline Data Management
Applicants and employees self-serve personal, benefit, and credential information so data is always at peak freshness.
Ready for more effective recruiting?
In school districts, everyone’s growth is connected. The right HRMS software can help you expand your ability to recruit, hire, onboard, coach, mentor — and retain. In turn, teachers grow. And when teachers grow, students learn.
With Frontline HRMS, you can:
- Attract, hire, and retain top talent with embedded workflows that keep you in control of the candidate search
- Manage positions with workforce planning, organizational mapping, effective dating, and conditional workflows
- Keep compensation details up to date by easily adding stipends, step increments, and other changes for payroll and reporting
- Give agency to employees with a self-serve portal to select and enroll in benefits packages, change personal information, and more
- Streamline document management with digital onboarding, permissions-based visibility to employee records, and easy, secure form completion online