Finding the right IT staff for your school or college

In the ever changing world of IT, finding and supporting the right human resources has become a complicated issue even, for practised IT professionals. Searching for and selecting people with the right future-facing skillsets and competencies, and recruiting them at the right price and package, takes a breadth and depth of IT HR experience and expertise.

Two things are fundamental to successful IT recruitment. The first is to be exhaustive when identifying and specifying the job description you need to fill now, and scoping how that role might develop. The second requirement is a detailed market knowledge of how and where to recruit the right person and what the costs are likely to be.

This can be particularly difficult for those who have a remit to manage IT but who lack the depth of technical knowledge to make best practice judgements and decisions to recruit most effectively. That is why many schools and colleges, and even those with good technical expertise, are choosing to ask ramsac to consult on finding the right high-calibre IT individuals.

We are not an IT recruitment agency, but as independent IT consultants we meet an enormous range of IT professionals and are ideally placed to advise schools and colleges on all aspects of IT HR. We normally work alongside the in-house HR team and recruitment consultants, in the following ways:

• Preparation of all technical aspects of the job description
• Advice on suitable recruitment media (and agencies if appropriate)
• Briefing of agency staff to aid initial search
• Short-listing most suitable candidates
• Participation at interview stage to provide technical assessment

We are also happy to advise on IT personnel policy and procedures that ensure your school is actively preventing IT misuse whilst protecting your systems and data. Finally, we frequently work alongside the in-house team to help manage and motivate staff, develop training plans, and assist with on-going technical development to fit longer term staffing strategies.