We spoke to Robert Timmis, Director of Operations at Three Spires Trust, about how MyNewTerm has helped recruit and increased applications during a national recruitment and retention crisis.
“Before MyNewTerm, we really struggled to recruit candidates in both teaching and support vacancies across the trust. The pool of candidates available to us has shrunk nationally. There is a national recruitment and retention crisis anyway, so there are fewer people out there to recruit. Essentially, candidates don’t have the time to fill in a big Word document. We traditionally used Word documents for recruitment forms. This was a bit of a barrier to people coming through the system to be recruited before we used MyNewTerm.”
“Moving to MyNewTerm has really revolutionised the way we do recruitment. It’s no accident that the system and the platform is available. The integrated advertising across multiple candidates has really driven candidates to our trust, academies and specific roles.”
“The term revolutionise is quite a big term, but it really has increased footfall, increased applications, increased quality and increased efficiency in the recruitment process. That’s a huge thing for us.”
“As we’re trying to centralise systems across the trust, driving that efficiency in the recruitment process has been phenomenal for us. If MyNewTerm wasn’t here for us, we would probably be fumbling along with some sort of manual process still. Hopefully, we might have moved away from a Word document form but that probably still would have looked like an Office 365 form or something. That’s still quite laborious and doesn’t actually take you through the whole candidate management system MyNewTerm offers. I can’t emphasise enough how that streamlines the whole recruitment process for you to recruit more effectively. We still would have had individual tasks with individual people monitoring different stages of the process. Whereas now, it’s all on one system and streamlined for us.”
“We are able to see how many hits we get for each advert, how many people are drafting applications, and how many people actually apply. We can see that previously we were only getting a very small percentage of applicants. This was potentially because of that laborious application process. Now we can see exactly how many candidates we’ve got coming through and what our reach is for those.”
“You should definitely be working with MyNewTerm. It is clearly one of the leading platforms out there at the moment. It’s not just a platform, it’s not just an advertising board, it’s a whole candidate management, recruitment management process.”
“There are an awful lot of multi-academy trusts moving towards MyNewTerm, we’re all doing it for the right reasons – because it is the market leader at the moment. If you’re on the fence, pick up the phone to me or any other multi-academy trust. I did the same and here we are today, not looking back.”
To learn more about the applicant tracking system of choice for the education sector, get in touch here with the MyNewTerm team today.
