Why use Talent Consultancy?
When it comes to ensuring you have the very best staff in your organisation, optimising recruitment and working to ensure high staff retention rates are critical.
16% of college teachers leave the profession each year. That figure is 10% for school teachers, between 10-11% in most NHS occupations and 7-8% per cent in the civil service.
Education is an incredibly challenging and competitive work market, with competition coming not just from other providers, but often from industry itself.
It's therefore critical to demonstrate the amazing benefits and rewarding atmosphere of the sector, but also highlight why your college stands out above the rest in a crowded marketplace as the employer of choice.
Once you've selected and appointed your star individuals, you'll of course want to get them up and running as fast as possible and then keep their key skills within the organisation.
We simplify this into three key areas:
Attract
Attract - bringing superstars to your door. However great you are at retaining your staff, you’ll always need to bring in new team members over time. Depending on your location, you could be fighting against three, four, or maybe even five rival institutions, and that’s before you take into account the pressures from industry. TTS can help you stand out from the crowd, and ensure you’re attracting top quality talent for each and every role you post.
At the end of the 2021/22 academic year, 5.5% of FE teaching posts were vacant, providing 2,500 open opportunities at any one time for teaching staff to consider applying for.
Hire
Hire - snapping them up and getting them started. By attracting plenty of great candidates at the start of the process, you’ve got a great chance of making a hire. However, so many organisations make the mistake of letting good candidates ‘get away’ due to inefficient hiring practices. Does this happen to you? Let us help!
The average time from identifying an opportunity to start date in FE is 28 days. In industry, turnaround is usually less than two weeks, potentially just a couple of days in smaller businesses.
Retain
Retain - ensure they stay as long as possible. Great news, you’ve made a fantastic hire! Now the challenge becomes how to keep them happy, enthused, productive and ultimately, still within the organisation. We’ve got some in depth work packages to assist, and we start right from the onboarding process itself.
We all offer benefits to our staff, it’s a key part of retaining great team members. But did you know less than 10% of FE professionals we surveyed knew exactly what their benefits package consisted of?
Why Talentia?
Find out why we believe in our approach.
The UK’s fastest-growing specialist recruitment agency, operating across the globe!
