Recruitment Practice At Hoke County Schools

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Hoke County School District is located in a rural area in North Carolina. The district consists in 11 schools. The relatively small district has problems recruiting teachers since other neighbor districts have better location and offer good benefits. The recruitment practice of this district is very successful. The Human Resources Department is working closely with the local administrators to recruit and retain teachers in the area.
On this paper, I will discus the recruitment practice of the district, which consists in a combination of incentives for the newly hired professionals. Some of the incentives are signing bonus, reduce mortgage rates and daycare facilities. Moreover, the district holds a job fair once a year to recruit teachers. The job fair is held in April. The participants are very competitive and many principals take advantage of the job fair to sign contracts and fill as many positions as they can for the new school year.
Job fair
The principals and assistant principals gather a group of teachers from each school to work with them at the annual job fair. Veteran teachers serve as advisors for the administrators while evaluating applications. The principals interview prospective applicants at the site in the event that a highly qualified professional is looking for a position. This is done to avoid that any neighbor district hire the applicant. The goal of the Human Resources Department is to hire certified teachers. The NCLB policy enforces this practice. In previous years, the goal was to have teachers in the classrooms, and they employed Lateral Entry teachers to fill those positions. Today, they are putting effort to recruit fully certified teachers to meet the federal requirements.

Incentives
Hoke County has in place different incentives to attract teachers and to retain those that are already employed. The first one is signing bonuses, offered to highly qualified and fully certified teachers only. The ...