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Diary of a Headteacher: A new approach to recruitment

As recruitment season looms, our headteacher diarist is as focused on putting off the wrong candidates as he is at attracting the right ones…

As we approach recruitment season in education I have paused to reflect on some of our processes at school and consider whether or not to tweak them or completely rework them from scratch.

Someone I trust implicitly once said to me “you live and die by your appointments” and every single time I arrive at a point where I am about to make a decision to employ a teacher I revisit this phrase and deliberate further, sometimes even sleeping on it before coming to a final conclusion.

I consider my judgement to be pretty good and over the years I have learnt to trust my instincts about a candidate as much as their performance across the recruitment processes.

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