An Education Executive Search Firm is not just your typical recruitment agency – it is an experienced team of specialist talent consultants who work with you to achieve your hiring objectives for long-term effectiveness!
Want to know more?
This blog will cover the reasons to utilise the expertise of an executive search firm, including:
- Accessing top quality education talent
- Leading market insight
- Improving diversity
- Long-term leadership and staff retention
- Reliability and experience
1. Accessing top quality education talent
Through our advanced search and selection techniques, we have access to vast talent pools of incredible middle-senior leaders and educational professionals that are open to new opportunities.
In addition, we also source and approach ‘passive’ talent through a deeper level of talent searching, mining deep into the candidate market when working on a hiring project.
Working with an leadership search specialist ensures that the quality of talent and the education professionals provided are guaranteed to:
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- Enhance the leadership and delivery of education from your school or trust
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- Have the relevant experience you need for the role
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- Be the right culture fit
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- Possess the right motivation to effectively deliver within the role
2. Leading market insight in the education sector
Time is valuable within the education sector, and sometimes you don’t have the in-house resources to effectively source the right people…
The good news is, it’s easier to outsource and let us do the hard bit: the research, talent pooling, market mapping, longlisting, offer negotiation… all of it!
Even the initial assessment of CVs can take a lot of time if you’re recruiting solely through internal sources, not to mention the sometimes-extortionate methods of advertising!
Outsourcing and using an executive search firm provides you with access to:
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- Years of market knowledge
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- Free resources
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- Expert brand management, ensuring you are THE employer of choice in the region
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- Access to a wider talent pool
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- Our digital shortlisting platform, M/LK 360, which cuts costs and improves retention rates
3. Improving diversity in schools
M/LK Education Search has a strong focus on ED&I recruitment, allowing us to differentiate ourselves in the education recruitment sector.
By enabling an optional anonymous shortlisting process via our M/LK 360 platform, you can ensure that your own process champions diversity, equality and inclusion.
By assessing candidates based exclusively on their suitability, rather than identifying factors, hiring teams can remove unconscious bias from their process, creating fairer representation at interview stage and better hiring outcomes.
4. Long-term leadership and staff retention improvement
Working with an executive search firm, you can rest assured that the candidates we source will provide long term success for your school.
The education of pupils is at the core of everything we do at M/LK, and as such we work with you and the candidates on employee engagement, retention strategies, and focus on the importance of satisfaction/alignment from both ends.
5. Reliability and experience
Using an executive search firm ensures that you experience a quality process! Ours is a professional approach, with better candidate matching and a huge reduction in employee attrition.
We understand that hiring can be a time-consuming and demanding process. By working with a trusted talent provider to mitigate risk and ensure a smoother journey through search and selection, you can feel at ease knowing that we have your best interests at heart.
Meet M/LK Education Search
We are an Education Executive Search Firm specialising in Middle-Senior Leadership recruitment within the Education Sector. Our mission is to challenge the status quo of recruitment within education, providing leadership and operations talent that truly enriches the lives of pupils, staff and the community.
By combining years of executive search expertise with a solid understanding of the sector, we are well placed to create a better way of supporting schools and academy trusts in their recruitment process.
Other benefits of working with a search firm include:
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- Exclusivity – ensuring our focus is solely based on finding the perfect match for your role
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- Market experience and knowledge
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- Access to a deeper network of talent, to ensure you get the best candidate match possible for your roles
Partner with us…
Let’s arrange 30 minutes in your diary to discuss your leadership or operations recruitment needs!
Call us on 020 3633 3222 or email our Director of Operations, Greg Bookman, for more info: greg.bookman@mlk-search.co.uk
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