Introducing, Found Worx
KindiCare and Found Worx have joined forces to revolutionise early childhood recruitment, and this is good news for job-seekers and employers!
BY HEJIRA CONVERY, KINDICARE
If you’re looking for an amazing next step in your early childhood career, then it can be a bit demoralising to put lots of effort into a job application that goes nowhere.
And if you’re a childcare provider who’s stuck on a treadmill of paying high casual agency rates, without any time to do your own hiring, while struggling to even find suitable permanent candidates, you may also be feeling a little lacklustre about recruitment.
However, here at KindiCare, we are in the business of making things easier for everyone in the early childhood sector – and that includes you!
We’ve designed the KindiCare Jobs platform to make it simple to apply and hire, and to personalise the platform even further, we have partnered with Found Worx.
Found Worx is led by Kim Keating, who has 25+ years of experience in recruitment at the most senior levels and a real passion for the early childhood sector.
Over the years, Kim has had great success placing quality people in ideal roles, but this experience has led her to see candidates struggling to put their best foot forward, organisations needing quality staff quickly in candidate-tight markets, and hiring costs going through the roof.
It’s clear that the standard approach to recruitment simply isn’t sufficient, and what the sector needs is a bespoke recruitment offering.
One that understands the conflicting needs of candidates and employers, with candidates needing deep investment to bring out the best in them, and employers facing growing ‘time to hire’ pressures.
There’s also a need for candidates to be proactively put forward for excellent employment matches, instead of sitting back and waiting for opportunity to knock; while employers need assurance that their staffing budget is being spent astutely.
So, let us introduce you to the KindiCare/Found Worx recruitment solution!
Our new personalised permanent recruitment experience does all the above, and we’re pleased to report that every new candidate who registers with KindiCare Jobs on the KindiCare App will now be pre-screened and assessed by Found Worx experts to ensure they are job-ready!
This extra support is invaluable, because at KindiCare, we have found that upwards of 80% of candidates who register for work with KindiCare Jobs do not apply directly for a position.
Kim says there are many reasons for this, including a lack of confidence and experience in candidates representing themselves to their full potential, as well as misconceptions about specific providers.
However, with the introduction of Found Worx to the KindiCare experience, we now offer something special for candidates who register on the KindiCare App, but may not be all-action when it comes to applications.
Candidates who indicate that they are open to opportunities, but are not necessarily monitoring job boards or applying directly to advertisements, will benefit greatly from the Found Worx bespoke recruitment process, because we contact and gently guide them through our recruitment process.
At Found Worx, we strive to bring out the very best in each candidate, and our proactive approach to placing people is a win-win for candidates and employers.
The KindiCare/Found Worx partnership sees us tapping into a pool of talent that may otherwise go unnoticed, and as a recruitment solution team, we are totally focused on bringing out the best in everyone who registers with KindiCare Jobs, while giving clients access to staff they may easily have missed out on.
New candidates will be contacted and supported by Found Worx – at absolutely no cost to them – and we are offering a streamlined recruitment process that’s specially designed to nurture and uncover hidden gems who are not applying directly for roles.
Kim says, “We have created a process whereby we have the time and expertise to look at each candidate very carefully, through the eyes of a provider. We then assess each applicant in terms of their early childhood qualifications and experience, before conducting a deep dive to identify their skills, competency, behavioural preferences, and values.”
Clients of KindiCare are encouraged to list their specific vacancies in KindiCare Jobs as usual, and we will be in touch when we have a Found Worx job-ready candidate to match them with!
>>> To see what the Found Worx recruitment process involves for each candidate, click here.
