Massive Teacher Retirements Loom for School Districts Nationwide
SOUTHFIELD, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Oct. 24, 2000--The Center for American Jobs, a premier innovator in employee recruiting practices,
today announced the development of its on-line recruiting portal for teachers, MichiganNowHiring.com
(http://www.MichiganNowHiring.com).
Michigan NowHiring.com is the first and only Internet recruiting site to integrate the Web and the telephone, enabling millions of Americans without ready access to the Internet to post their credentials to the Web using a touch-tone phone. It is also the only career site to provide employers a comprehensive automated skills assessment of prospective job candidates, combining the first three steps of an employer`s hiring process into one.
''Between 50% and 60% of our country`s teachers will be eligible to retire in the next ten years,'' said David Murdock, Director of Educational Markets. ''Our nation`s schools need to hire up to 2.7 million teachers by 2009, just to keep up with increased enrollment, the demand for smaller class sizes and teacher
retirements, according to recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
MichiganNowHiring.com will be poised to deliver the teachers, administrators and support positions needed to fill these openings,'' Murdock continued.
Teachers can either go to MichiganNowHiring.com or call 800-NOW-HIRING and spend a few minutes on-line or interactively on the telephone answering a series of job related questions designed to pre-qualify them to the school`s minimum hiring standards. Each interview contains an audio segment allowing candidates to record verbal answers to select interview questions. At the conclusion of the interview, NowHiring compares the candidate`s answers to their member school`s hiring criteria and, where there is a match, automatically
fax or email a Profile of each qualified candidate to each NowHiring member employer in the candidate`s geographic area.
The HR staff of a school system, in addition to receiving Profiles of qualified educational professionals, can access NowHiring`s database of educators on-line to perform unlimited free searches for qualified candidates. They can even listen to candidates` recorded answers to select interview questions before they contact them. Unlike traditional on-line recruiting sites, there is no charge to school districts to post an unlimited number of jobs on NowHiring. Schools pay only a nominal fee based on the size of their school district.
MichiganNowHiring.com streamlines the recruiting and hiring process by providing cost effective, automated recruiting solutions for employees and employers in over 345 job categories. It can save employers up to 40% over old fashioned recruiting methods, reduce their time-to-hire by as much as 50%, and significantly improve the quality of employees hired. While NowHiring`s screening process is selective by design, it is completely unbiased, and the questions used are fully EEOC compliant.
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