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HR Guru: Can you innovate how and where you recruit?

Imogen Edmunds, managing director of Redwing Solutions, which specialises in HR for early years settings, on how some settings are winning at recruitment.

When it comes to recruiting talent to join our nurseries, some settings are winning. They are finding the so-called ‘elusive’ candidates that want to join their nurseries. In this column, I aim to showcase what they are doing so you can evaluate the effectiveness of this strategy for your setting.

They have innovated how and where they recruit. They don’t just add a job to a free board and wait for candidates. They operate recruitment evenings, they use social media to build momentum with their recruitment campaign. They ‘hire’ their existing team to be social media ambassadors, spreading the word. They explore international recruitment and what it has to offer. They use online application forms that can be completed by a candidate who can save their progress. Remember, Generation Z has only ever known an online world.

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