FAQs for Schools
How long does it take to have an application approved?
Generally a few weeks. Once your application is received, the School Coordinator and the Executive Management Committee review the information. The review process may lead us to ask for more information (for example, aspects of the school’s operation, salary/benefits packages, etc.). Once we have the information needed we will do our best to activate your school as quickly as we can. If you are hoping to recruit at a particular job fair, you should submit the application well in advance. However, if we can expedite a school’s application we will certainly do our best, but only after we have received all of the requested information.
What are the criteria for determining if a school is approved?
Generally we look for the following criteria when reviewing a school application:
- Appropriate salaries and benefits compared to other reputable international schools around the world (for example, allowing staff to live comfortably, travel during the holiday periods and still generate financial savings)
- Housing or housing allowance (unless housing costs are adequately covered by the salary)
- Round-trip flights/travel allowance
- Health insurance (preferably worldwide)
- Annual (or biennial) home leave
- Free tuition at the school for teachers’ children
- Supportive professional work environment
Our school is not registered with Search Associates but would like to attend a job fair. How can I register for a fair?
All of our job fairs are by invitation only to those schools who are fully registered with us. If you wish to attend a job fair, you would first need to submit an online application found on "get started" for schools. Once your application is received, it may take a few weeks to to approve so we encourage you to begin the process early so that you have a better chance of securing an invitation to a job fair.
Our school is registered with Search Associates. How can we attend a job fair?
Invitations are only given to schools that are fully registered and active in our database. You can easily request an invitation to any of our job fairs by completing the request form found on your school dashboard page after logging in to our web site. You can also contact the fair organizer directly. If there is space available and the fair organizer feels your school would benefit from attending the fair, they will send your school an official invitation. Please visit our job fair page for more information about each of our fairs.
Should my school always attend the early fairs?
While early fairs generally attract the most experienced candidates, they also attract the most attractive and well-known schools, which often offer relatively generous packages. Start-up schools, smaller schools, schools in more challenging locations, and schools with limited packages tend to do much better at one or more of our later fairs. You should always contact the fair organizer well in advance to ask if a particular fair might be a good match for your school.
What are the costs of attending a job fair and to whom are the fees paid?
Each job fair organizer sets attendance fees. Fees will differ because the cost of running a fair varies greatly from city to city. Fees are charged for each recruiter attending from any particular school. Recruiters are responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs. Please visit the job fair page for further information.
What happens if our school hires candidates at different fairs?
Each fair organizer sends the school a separate invoice, each one payable to the designated fair organizer’s office.
When I fill vacancies as a result of meeting teachers at a job fair, can I pay the total placement fee with one payment to Search Associates? If not, what is the process?
The fair organizer will invoice you for any candidates you have hired at a particular job fair (for example, if you attend the Bangkok fair and hire four teachers, the Bangkok fair organizer will send you an invoice for all the appointments that resulted from interviews/connections made at that fair).
If you hire a candidate outside a fair (through use of our database), the Associate representing that candidate will send you an invoice. To find the Associate sponsoring the candidate you hired, simply pull up the candidate’s online application.
Search Associates requires schools to inform either the fair organizer (if they hired through a fair) or the sponsoring Associate (if they hired through our database) as soon as they have formally appointed a Search Associates candidate.
How do I pay the recruitment fee for a teacher I have appointed solely through the Search database?
Each candidate is registered with an individual Associate. Non-fair placement fees are always payable to the candidate’s sponsoring Associate. Please contact the Associate sponsoring your new hire to notify them of the so they can send your school an invoice. You can find the name of the sponsoring Associate and their contact information on the candidate's Search Associates profile.
