Who you hire is what you become.
Hiring is one of the most predictable tasks for school leaders, yet it catches us off guard each season. Why is this?
In schools, we don’t have entire offices tasked with hiring people. Instead, we ask people with other full-time jobs to do this work.
This is exactly the type of opportunity that is best framed as a design challenge.
How might we re-design our hiring processes + practices to reflect the strategic importance of this opportunity while also acknowledging that the people primarily tasked with doing this work are incredibly busy?
Design for Hiring Season is a five meeting process designed for schools that recognize the opportunity to be intentional, creative, and strategic in how they:
Identify and articulate the type of attributes of a successful educator in their community.
Craft and communicate job openings internally and externally.
Recruit a diverse field of candidates interested in each job opening.
Design processes that are both inclusive, streamlined, and lead to inviting candidates to campus who are most likely to embody the attributes identified by the school committee.
Interview, collaborate and discern the skills, attributes, and mindset of candidates they invite to campus.
Break the status quo in all aspects of this strategic and vital work.
Bring joy, experience design, humanity, and proactive strategy to this yearly task.
Over five meetings, we will help your school design team dive into your culture to extract the attributes most critical to delivering your mission, prototype and re-imagine the aspects of your hiring you wish to re-imagine with these attributes in mind and create new opportunities for hiring season this year.
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Hiring well means becoming a better school. Our white paper, “Hiring By Design,” is designed to help schools do this work intentionally. Enter your information below and one of our team members will send you a free PDF of this resource.