ECE website to slash millions from recruitment budgets

Early childhood education job seekers website to slash millions from recruitment budgets

A job seekers’ website has been launched that could slash millions of dollars from the recruitment budgets of New Zealand early childhood education services.

Ecemploy is New Zealand’s first early-childhood-education-specific job recruitment website, and is likely, according to its owner, ‘to save individual services thousands of dollars in recruitment costs, and divert savings to the care of children’.

Early Childhood Council CEO Peter Reynolds says the website is free for those seeking jobs, and good value for employers.

The site, he says, is focussed on the needs of early childhood education services and their staff, and allows them to find each other ‘very, very quickly’ with a couple of clicks on a computer mouse or a couple of taps on a phone screen.

The website is at http://www.ecemploy.co.nz, and has the potential, says Mr Reynolds, ‘to remake the way early childhood education services find teachers and other staff’.

It allows job seekers to search for jobs by service type, job type and location. It also allows them to upload their cover letter and resume, and to create an alert so they are notified when certain job types become available. It allows employers to list job vacancies, and to view applicant information.

The service is a response ‘to the sometimes ridiculously high cost and protracted nature of recruiting new staff’, Mr Reynolds says.

‘It is provided by an organisation whose raison d’etre is to support early childhood services, and if it means less money spent on recruitment and more for child care, it will have done its job.’

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