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Educational Recruiting Technology

Finding new employees, regardless of your company is never an easy task. It requires time and plenty of patience to find the perfect employees. When it comes to finding qualified teachers, this becomes even a bigger problem. There are plenty of new graduates and out of work teachers looking for employment, but it is difficult to find the ones that are ideal for the particular school or district. However, one superintendent has found a way around this. Dr. Henry R. Scipione, Superintendent of Schools for York School Department in York, Maine, had been carefully watching the expansion of a new online educational recruitment service called SchoolSpring since its inception in 2001.

Last year, however, Dr. Scipione knew it was finally time to bring the service to the attention of his colleagues to evaluate. It looked as though the service was really taking off in New England and he wanted to be one of the first in Maine to jump on board. ?I knew Jim Fitzpatrick, co-founder, president and CEO of SchoolSpring from when he was a high school principal in Vermont,? explained Dr. Scipione. ?I occasionally saw Jim at conferences and he would fill me in on the growth of SchoolSpring. I watched the service evolve and in the spring of 2004 I decided that it was time for my district to seriously consider it for our recruiting needs.?

That year, Mr. Fitzpatrick traveled to York School Department conducting presentations for the review board so that they could better understand how the web-based recruiting tool worked. ?We checked customer references, looked at alternatives, and weighed our options for almost a year before deciding to go with SchoolSpring,? said Dr. Scipione. York Schools had been using a successful method of recruiting for years but they knew it could be better and more efficient. SchoolSpring?s website receives over a million visitors a year and currently has almost 35,000 educator members looking for jobs. That means those hard-to-find teachers are now easier to locate and hire using SchoolSpring.