Finding a new job is often a difficult undertaking. Recruitment agencies tend to have a well-earned, bad reputation among many job-seekers. That shouldn’t be the case, and here at Step 2 Teaching we’re committed to the long-term success of all job-seeking candidates.

Below are some of the questions we receive most often from job-seekers. Hopefully, you will find this helpful as you evaluate whether to partner with Step 2 Teaching for your next job search.

A recruiting consultancy is a company that is hired/paid by other companies to find employees for their organisation. A recruiting company’s clients are the companies who hire them to find employees. This could be on a temporary or full-time basis. We are paid by the employers looking to hire not by jobseekers.

Our services for job seekers are completely free. In fact it is illegal in many states to charge anything for our services to job seekers/applicants. Step 2 Teaching never charges any fees to a job seeker who benefits from our assistance and, if you are a temporary employee on our payroll, we never deduct any fees for our assistance from your paycheck.

There is no guarantee you will find a job through Step 2 Teaching. However, Step 2 Teaching has established strong working relationships with many well-known schools, colleges, universities and other education establishments to help facilitate job placements. We receive new requests for many skills sets and experience levels. Since our inception, we have placed many employees in new positions with numerous employers.

At Step 2 Teaching we focus on finding great talent for the employers who engage with us. We will review your cv with you and make suggestions for improvements. If you need more assistance, we are happy to refer you to a professional cv writer.

Step 2 Teaching is engaged by many types of education establishments, large and small, across many countries. We place individuals in direct hire/full-time roles at various career stages.

Once you have applied for a position, your cv and questionnaire will remain in our database indefinitely. As new roles become available, we do cross-reference and search our database first for talent that could match the new role. If you have interviewed with a Step 2 Teaching recruiter the best course of action would be to contact that recruiter directly to discuss other roles.

Step 2 Teaching requires that any job-seeker interested in working register using the website and apply for the roles they are interested in. If you’ve been shortlisted the process includes speaking to a Step 2 Teaching recruiter who will discuss with the candidate their skills, experiences, career objectives and how Step 2 Teaching can assist them in their job search.

Once this process is complete, the Step 2 Teaching recruiter will review open roles that match the job-seeker’s skills, experience, and our client’s culture.

If the job-seeker is interested and wants to be considered for the role, then the Step 2 Teaching recruiter will refer the candidate to our client for consideration.

Simultaneously, Step 2 Teaching also begins the employment verification process and coordinates all necessary activities with our client and the job-seeker throughout the interview process up to and including oversight and extending the job offer.

The Step 2 Teaching recruiter will work one on one with you during the entire process. Each client has different requirements and needs, the Step 2 Teaching recruiter will educate you on everything you may need to know, assist you in researching the company and the role to help you be as prepared as possible for the interview. Step 2 Teaching will not stage answers or tell you what to say but we will help you prepare to be confident, well-educated and prepared for your interviews.

An employer may choose to use a professional recruitment consultancy for a variety of reasons. Often times, an employer has exhausted their recruitment efforts first before engaging a recruitment consultancy. Recruitment consultancies are in the business of recruiting so we have access to an extensive talent pool, the latest technologies, tools, and methods to find talent that the employer may not.

Employers also use recruitment consultancies to outsource recruiting due to time constraints or other factors as well. Sometimes we are engaged because it is a confidential search and they can remain anonymous.

Our consultancy offers a placement guarantee dependent on the contract our clients sign, so the risk is low and the return can be very beneficial as compared to running a traditional job advertisement and waiting for applicants.