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''Using Eploy’s name-blind recruitment functionality rules out any discrimination based on name, ethnicity or gender and the extensive reporting capability allows easy reporting on progress to continually improve our recruitment effectiveness.''
The Education sector faces a number of sector sourcing challenges, not least balancing a scarcity of candidates and disruption in the sector. That's why an Education Applicant Tracking System offers a user-friendly and efficient way to manage your recruitment process.
Eploy's ATS (Applicant Tracking System) and Talent CRM is designed to provide the right tools across the recruitment journey to help attract and recruit the right quality and quantity of candidates, helping education establishments to take control of their hiring processes.
It also integrates with leading products and services in education recruitment technology, so if you are looking to multi-post jobs through providers such as Education Web Jobs, the Educator or other top education job boards, we can do that too!
Whether you need to ensure compliant recruiting, support multiple brands or business functions, you’ll find Eploy to be the most adaptable talent acquisition technology that consistently delivers the results you demand.
Attract and engage top candidates in the education sector with Eploy. Our ATS ensures a captivating and interactive experience, from initial job posting to final selection.
With Eploy, streamline your education recruitment. Our system ensures a smooth, efficient process, from posting jobs to onboarding, enhancing your time-to-hire and candidate experience.
Eploy's ATS is your partner in creating a diverse and inclusive educational environment. Our tools help in attracting a wide range of candidates, ensuring compliance and promoting unbiased hiring.
Ensure your educational institution meets all legal and ethical hiring standards with Eploy. Our comprehensive compliance management safeguards your recruitment process, offering peace of mind and reliability.
Eploy addresses the challenge of finding qualified candidates in education. Our system extends your reach, connecting you with the skilled talent necessary for your institution's success.
At Eploy we've transformed Talent Acquisition at many leading Education organisations, take a look at some of our recent client success stories and case studies.
Recruitment in the Education sector comes with unique challenges. These can be addressed by understanding the most effective candidate sourcing channels for the sector and anticipating potential changes in hiring levels throughout the year. Eploy helps Education Recruiters tackle these challenges and streamline their recruitment processes to achieve the results they need.
The main sourcing channels used by the Education sector to attract candidates is Website/Careers Sites (the most-used channel 98%), followed by Job Aggregators (76%) and Professional Social Networks, such as LinkedIn (69%).
Agencies were used 53% of education recruitment teams, and ATS/CRM and Talent Pool 38%.
Source: 2024 UK Candidate Attraction Survey
When we look at how recruiters in the Education sector are succeeding with talent attraction, the Sourcing Quadrant provides an overview of the top-performing sourcing channels. Having a great careers site is one of the most effective ways to attract a good quantity of skilled candidates. And the use of professional social Networks and Employee Referrals attract less talent, but it tends to be of higher quality.
Other channels, like Social Media, Job Boards and Events, underperform in attracting and nurturing candidates.
Source: 2024 UK Candidate Attraction Report
In the Education sector, the levels of hiring in the next 12 months are expected to stay the same according to 57% of respondents, with 41% expecting an increase. This year's report also showcases that no major changes in recruitment marketing budgets are expected, with 72% of respondents anticipating no change in budgets for recruitment marketing and 23% expecting to see a decrease in budgets, essentially having to deliver more with less.
Measuring and monitoring, in real time, every aspect of your hiring process will become of greater importance. With Eploy you get complete recruitment analytics built in to create customised dashboards.
It seems that the Education sector is experiencing a similar issue as other sectors - candidate scarcity in the main, followed by advertised salaries being lower than the market average. Lack of recruitment marketing budget also features highly, with almost 36% of respondents citing this as a key challenge.
When sourcing candidates, it's important to have simple, streamlined tools in place that allow for recruitment on the go for all those involved. That's why, with Eploy - as well as getting an award-winning Applicant Tracking System, you get a dedicated hiring manager portal and agency portal that's so easy to use and provides a uniform platform for recruiting.
What channels do the education sector use for sourcing candidates?
Finding talent
Which candidate sourcing channels work best in education?
Improve your advertising
How will levels of hiring in the education sector change in next 12 months?
Do more with less
Education sector hiring challenges
Solving hard problems
''Using Eploy’s name-blind recruitment functionality rules out any discrimination based on name, ethnicity or gender and the extensive reporting capability allows easy reporting on progress to continually improve our recruitment effectiveness.''
''As a University Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and diversifying our workforce is of significant importance and it was key for us to have a platform which was accessible and provided meaningful real-time data. I am delighted with the reporting dashboards within Eploy and pleased to say we now have recruitment metrics at the touch of a button which provide a foundation for making changes to the way we attract, engage, recruit and onboard talent to the University.''
“Previously, our recruitment was very admin heavy, we have come a long way from that model over the last few months and Eploy has helped with this considerably. It is important that, not only do we speed up the application process, but that we put the candidate at the heart of the process and improve their journey. Compliance is also a vital element of our recruitment process, collecting the right information such as DBS checks, references and other suitability checks in a streamlined way. We’ll continue to evolve our recruitment process with the tools we now have in place.”
"Ensuring that our recruitment practices kept pace with modern life was key for EKC Group as one of the largest employers in our area. This new system will enable us to give candidates the best possible experience through their recruitment, whilst simultaneously ensuring they are able to absorb our unique culture and values set. The bespoke recruitment site is also an amazing shop window to highlight who we are as a Group and what we stand for so that we get the right candidates every time. Implementation was seamless, and despite setting ourselves and Eploy a challenging deadline, we achieved it through great teamwork."
''Previously we were held back by system's limitations and not having control over our own system. This is no longer the case. I would encourage anyone looking at ATS systems to seriously consider Eploy and at least have a demo. ''
“We are able to demonstrate safe, well-paid, developmental work opportunities right here on our campus and in the local area which improves our attractiveness. The majority of roles that were once given to external agencies to fill are now managed internally, with around 75% of all individuals signed up for ERS being students. With the remainder assisting with wider engagement with the local community and a potential route to a more substantive role within the University.”
“In choosing Eploy we have improved MI reporting and visibility which in turn has improved communication. We utilise the dashboard reports to measure and monitor our performance and drill down on equal opportunities information, vacancies by industry and live applications at each stage. We’ve been impressed with the interactive nature of the SnapStats to look at trends across the teams and drill down into the high level numbers that prompt action.”
“With Eploy being a true web based recruitment solution, it has meant that we have greater flexibility away from our desks and at different sites. It will be highly likely that as we continue to be out of the office more and more that we will need to access Eploy on web enabled mobiles for client update information, CVs and the diary function. Eploy has given us a tailored-made customised experience.”
“We elected to partner with Eploy for a number of reasons, namely the system's advanced web-based functionality, ease of use and ability to be customised. Service and price were also defining factors, with Eploy offering the most flexible and cost-effective solution for our needs.”
“I think Eploy is a great system with huge potential – the service I receive is good and the team are solution-focused, very knowledgeable and understand our needs.”
''Eploy as a company embrace the fact that there are other systems that businesses will use, rather than silo/distance themselves from potential competitors, and will offer support on integrating with other products. The support is brilliant, patient, capable, and understanding. The account management is also excellent; transparent in costs and functionality, extremely well-prepared for reviews, and very responsive to queries and change requests. In this post-covid world of slack delivery of products and services, Eploy's professionalism and service levels are god-tier.''
“The previous system used for recruitment was not user-friendly and the lengthy and cumbersome manual process significantly hindered the ability to attract, engage and recruit talent. We knew it contributed to poor user experience and that time to hire took longer than needed, exacerbated by the manual processes which created several queries from users and meant the continual chasing of documentation.”
''One of the biggest successes of implementing Eploy was the ability to not only reduce application drop-offs but also an increase in applications. The ability to contact candidates at any stage even when they haven’t completed applications has helped us turn passive candidates into appointed candidates.''
"The feedback we've had so far from our hiring managers is that they love the tools available to them in the Eploy Hiring Manager portal. They are already suggesting how we can continually build on what we have. I am keen to get my hands on the data and recruitment dashboards. We've not had that level of reliable data before, but now we can measure all metrics within Eploy.''
Avanti Schools began in 2003, and their first school opened in 2008. Their vision was to create a family of schools based upon Avanti's core principles of educational excellence, character formation, and spiritual insight. The schools now have close to 5,500 students and 700 staff members across Avanti's family of 12 schools.
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