October 20, 2021 | 5 hours of Professional Learning
HR Job-Alike
Recruitment Best Practices for 2022
This is an invite-only event for Search Associate China Member Schools.
FREE OF CHARGE - Search Associates is sponsoring this event for new members.
The event is full. Please email michael@pdacademia.com to inquire about future events.
Schools that had leaders participate in PD Academia Human Resources training include:
After reading the booklet Preparing Host Country Support Staff for their Roles in International Schools, my deepest reflection is regarding ‘small talk’, that is, how I can build relationships between colleagues and know it and the importance of it. So, I did some small talk exercises with my foreign employees. After that, I realized that our greeting ways became different. This helps to cultivate a closer relationship, which is also very helpful for me to serve these foreign employees better in the future.
— SUNNY WANG, Concordia International School Shanghai
If you are facing enormous challenges in the recruitment of foreign teachers, you are not alone.
Due to COVID restrictions, it has become more difficult for schools to recruit and retain quality teachers. Throughout the pandemic, several schools have demonstrated remarkable resilience to ensure continuity in their teaching and learning provisions. These schools have achieved this amazing feat through tapping into networks and learning from peer schools and related organizations. Although schools may see recruitment as a very competitive landscape, there is much that school leaders and HR professionals can share to overcome the challenges creatively and to ensure a healthier recruitment ecosystem.
What is a Job-Alike
It is an opportunity to promote collaboration among education professionals with similar job responsibilities to enhance their craft, share knowledge, and network regionally.
These highly intensive learning sessions provide an opportunity to share resources, information, and engage in discussions and planning that will immediately benefit their schools.
Why Should I Join?
Understand government policies.
Gain insights into how government policies are shaping the recruitment landscape for China.
Enhance recruitment practices.
Learn what kinds of perks often attract foreign teachers in taking up a teaching position.
Understand Standards for Recruitment.
Understand how Search Associates Standards for Recruitment can help your school identify opportunities to improve its recruitment processes.
Share common concerns.
Share common concerns and best practices for how academic and non-academic administrators can work together in achieving recruitment goals.
Target Audience
This Job-Alike is for senior leaders, both academic and non-academic, who are involved in the recruitment process of foreign teachers.
Language
Chinese and English Strands
Time
3 hours (+ 2 hours of post-workshop activity)
Breakout Stands
There will be two moderators for this Job-Alike, one for each language strand, each will facilitate a discussion on one of the four topics:
Government Policies
Teacher Attraction Programs
Search Associates Standards for Recruitment
Recruitment Collaboration between Academic and Non-Academic Administrators
Post Meeting Activity
PD Academia, in partnership with Search Associates, has developed a Recruitment Practices Audit that all participants will be welcome to take for free. This audit tool is for internal school use only and if schools like they can receive free feedback on the results of the audit.
Date
October 20, 2021
Certificate Course
5 hours of professional learning
Meeting Time
09:00 – 12:00 with 2 x 10-minute breaks (China Time Zone)
Meeting Software
Zomo for Audio/Videos
MS Teams for file sharing.
Access to Recordings is restricted to registrants and available in MS Teams for 1 year.
FREE
Registration is limited to 30 people, 15 people per strand.
A school may register one person for each language strand, ideally, there is one person from both the Academic and Non-Academic Senior Leadership.
The event is full. Please email michael@pdacademia.com to inquire about future events.
How Will I Learn?
Search Associates has invited 4 International School recruitment and organizational management experts to facilitate this Job-Alike; two will moderate strand discussions in English and 2 will moderate strand discussions in Mandarin Chinese.
The Job-Alike will begin with a keynote presentation on the recruitment challenges and opportunities for 2022 and beyond. At the conclusion of the keynote presentation participants will engage in small group breakout discussions on one of the 4 topics. Each topic will be moderated in each strand.
Each breakout discussion will start with a focus question that the moderator will facilitate discussions amongst participants for experience and resource sharing.
At the conclusion of each breakout discussion key insights and best practices will be shared with all participants within that strand.
What Will I Learn?
All participants may expect the following takeaways from this course:
An understanding of what motivates a foreign teacher to take an employment offer.
Identify best practices for recruitment processes, from advertisement to offer acceptance.
Collaboration skills that realize recruitment goals.
Based on extensive research, we have developed a model for virtual professional development that will:
Enable participants to learn at their own pace using a mix of content delivery methods to meet the needs of various learning preferences, including but not limited to: presentations, case studies, peer consultations, recorded lectures, and industry-related readings.
Challenge participants to critically assess their own programs and tools.
Connect participants to process content collectively and share unique experiences and perspectives in small and large groups.
Demonstrate understanding of knowledge and tools by encouraging peer feedback.
Facilitators
Michael Iannini
Managing Director
PD Academia
Henry Wong
Managing Director
PD Academia
Pisanu (NU) Kamolrungvarakul
Senior HR Manager – Employer Branding and Talent Acquisition
Shanghai Yew Wah Education Management Company Limited
Ava Yang
(co-presenting with Lily Guo)
HR Manager
Day Star Academy, Beijing
Lily Guo
(co-presenting with Ava Yang)
HR manager
Day Star Academy, Beijing