Connecting Education’s Recruitment Audit
Is Your Hiring Process Costing You Candidates?
Written by Jamie Ganley, Commercial Director at Connecting Education
Here's a question we ask almost every education business that we speak to: How would you rate your hiring process?
Almost universally, the answer is some version of "pretty good, actually." And almost universally, when we dig into the detail, it tells a very different story.
We're all too close to our own processes to see where they're falling short. But in a market where strong candidates have options, getting this wrong has real consequences — candidates drop out, offers get declined, and great hires go to competitors. The organisation is left wondering why it's so hard to find good people, when the answer often has nothing to do with the talent market at all.
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The Gap Between Perception and Reality
One of the most consistent patterns I see is the gap between how organisations think their hiring process comes across and how candidates actually experience it.
A business might feel confident because they've always filled their roles eventually. But "eventually" isn't the same as "well." Filling a position after three rounds of revised job specs, a two-week gap between interviews, and a verbal offer that took ten days to arrive in writing isn't a functioning process - it's a leaky one.
The candidates who stuck around wanted the role enough to tolerate the friction. The ones who didn't? You'll never know what you missed.
Where Hiring Processes Quietly Break Down
In our experience, most problems cluster around the same areas: job design and role clarity (is your job description written for candidates or for internal sign-off?); speed and communication (unexplained delays and radio silence between stages lose good people fast); interview experience (how you treat candidates in the process is a preview of how you'll treat them as employees); offer management (the time between "we'd like to hire you" and a written offer is where deals fall apart); and onboarding (often forgotten, but one of the biggest drivers of early attrition).
None of these are insurmountable. But you need to know where you stand before you can fix anything.
Find Out With Our Free Recruitment Audit
That's exactly why we've built a free Recruitment Effectiveness Audit for EdTech and education businesses. It's 20 questions across five areas, takes about five minutes, and gives you an honest picture of what's working, what isn't, and where to focus first.
Answer the questions honestly, download your results as a PDF, and if you want to share them with us - we'll follow up with personalised recommendations. No obligation, no hard sell. Just a genuine conversation about what good hiring looks like for your organisation.
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