The International Schools Review Forum

Hello,

I've been given the unenviable job of recruiting teachers for our school in China, but the administration has given me no budget to work with. I previously recruited a teacher through Edpost, which is run by Saint Cloud State University as a sort of public service. It seems to have started as a job search service for graduates from local universities, but for whatever reason it grew and grew and now they get job postings (and qualified applicants) from all over Minnesota and the Dakotas and maybe even beyond, and schools can post there for free. It's a great site/service, I can't recommend it enough and I'm using it, but for one of the positions I'm hiring for, I just haven't been able to find anyone using Edpost.

I would love to use Joyjobs/TIE/Search or LinkedIn or whatever else, but clearly I'm not going to use my own salary for it and my administration won't budge on this issue. So...does anyone know any other free sites where school recruiters can post jobs, for example for recent college graduates? It could just be school websites (with large teacher training programs), anything like that that has a reasonably large audience. We are perfectly willing to hire new graduates with good records/credentials.

Any and all advice would be appreciated.

If you had included your ISs website with access to or an email in your post that probably would have been some free advertising. While you cant edit the message, you can modify your profile by clicking on control panel at the top and the clicking on the profile tab, then scroll down to the bottom and in the "interests" section you can put your email address for applications. I would also recommend LinkedIn.

The problem is any recommendation we give you at a zero cost is going to produce very similar results, meaning no results. The best return at lowest cost is probably going to be something like Daves ESL cafe ($75) since your ISs salary scale and OSH package isnt very high and combined with your location as a hardship doesnt make for an overall attractive offer.