Guidance For Recruiters
Advertising Services
Prospects Online is operated by the Recruitment and Advertising team at Bradford Council. We provide professional recruitment services to employers in the education sector, including primary and secondary schools, academies, education contractors and other educational services providers. Online advertising with prospectsonline.co.uk offers significant value for money:
- Reduced cost compared to traditional print advertising
- Saves you administrative time and costs in distributing application packs
- Online application facility means candidates can apply at any time
- Publishing your vacancy on the internet reaches a large, national audience
- Vacancy details e-mailed to our database of registered candidates
Learn how to advertise your vacancies with prospectsonline.co.uk
Other advertising
In addition to Prospects Online, we also publish our print bulletin Prospects, which is distributed to schools across the Bradford metropolitan area on a weekly basis, and manage advertising in external print and online media, including specialist, national and local publications, such as the TES, and the Telegraph & Argus.
We offer:
- Free standard advert design and artwork
- Discounted rates to advertise in external media
- A range of marketing options, targeting the right candidates
- Exposure to a large candidate pool
We also provide other bespoke advertising and candidate attraction methods, such as the creation of micro-websites, letter and flyer campaigns, open days and recruitment fairs.
Advertising costs and deadlines
Price list for Prospects bulletin and Prospects Online
Contact the Advertising Team for details and prices for other media
The deadline for receipt of all print adverts is Tuesday at 12 noon to be placed from Monday of the following week. Changes to deadlines may occur for adverts to be placed in the first week after a school holiday. Please contact the Advertising Team for details.
Bespoke Recruitment and Selection Services
Working with our team of recruitment specialists gives employers access to a comprehensive range of professional services, enabling you to attract, assess and select the best people at all levels. Our Recruitment Service works with school leaders to provide strategic support, helping to shape your school’s future workforce.
We can help you with all recruitment consultancy services, such as:
- Job Profiling – creating job descriptions and person specifications
- Determining your selection criteria and assessment methods
- Creating targeted candidate attraction plans and assessment centres
- Succession planning
- Department restructures
We offer initial recruitment advice free of charge to help you plan and design your recruitment campaign, and comprehesive recruitment support services to assist you through the recruitment and selection process. Please contact the Advertising Team to discuss your requirements.
Application Management and Shortlisting
Our recruitment team can manage the application process for you; from application tracking to management of references. This process includes:
- Online application facility
- Candidate tracking and communication
- Administrative support – answering queries, sending out application packs, arranging interviews
- Shortlisting against your selection criteria and performing pre-screening such as telephone interviews or self-selection application forms
- Pre-employment checks (including references, CRB disclosures, GTC checks, etc.)
Assessment and Selection
We can help you to objectively select the most competent and suitable people through designing appropriate selection methods, assessing not only skills and experience but also behaviours and values. We can help with:
- Expert advice on selection methods
- Design and facilitation of assessment centres
- Safer Recruitment trained interviewers
- Competency based interviewing
- Psychometric testing – both ability and behavioural assessments
- Pre-employment checks
- Arranging interviews and managing correspondence
On boarding and Evaluation
If you subscribe to our HR services we can link in with our HR Advisory or Business Support Service to ensure a smooth on boarding process for your preferred candidate.
We also monitor the effectiveness of the recruitment of your vacancy for future recruitment planning, including analysis of advert response and media and candidate feedback.
Additional HR Products and Services
Development Assessment Centres
Assessment Centres can be designed and arranged for development and team-building purposes as well as recruitment. Activities can include psychometric assessment, group exercises, seminars and team-building events. Please contact the Advertising Team for advice and costs.
Management Development Programme
This programme has been developed to assist school leadership in building capacity within their schools by providing training and development opportunities for managers, including training on effective recruitment and selection methods.
Safer Recruitment Training
Our team includes NCSL – trained Safer Recruitment trainers and we work in partnership with Child Protection experts to offer training on essential safer recruitment practices. The DCSF led training provides valuable information on a safer school/organisational culture, and advice and guidance to strengthen safeguards against employing unsuitable people in Education.
Full details and costs of the above programmes are available from the Human Resources Advisory & Business Consultancy Service.
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