What recruitment strategies do principals use?
When the Recruitment Director is aware of the strategies that principals use to recruit teachers, it is possible to help them improve on what they are already doing or to suggest other strategies to them. Principals utilize a variety of methods, in addition to TeacherLink, to recruit staff. This includes referrals from colleagues (18%), recruiting parents of children who are enrolled in the school and other congregants (40%), and placing advertisements in the regions Jewish newspaper (35%). Some principals contact colleges in the area. The TeacherLink program provides a variety of recruitment materials for principals to use. Forty-three percent (43%) of principals who responded to the survey published TeacherLink recruitment ads in their synagogue bulletins, 55% displayed the TeacherLink recruitment brochure in their schools or synagogues, and 40% sent out TeacherLink recruitment messages on email. The Recruitment Director should remind principals of the effectiveness of these recruitm
