£40 per year for everything? Yes, everything - no hidden charges; nothing extra to pay (except VAT, which you can probably claim back). This includes links to your own application processes (whether online or not), so you don't even have to do anything differently and so there are no additional hidden costs either.
Why so cheap?
This isn't an introductory offer and we won't suddenly start to charge a lot more for the service. It's cheap because we genuinely want to help schools save money, not exploit them when they are short of staff.
What's the catch?
You have to enter the job details yourself, though you can copy-paste from other documents or websites and the job just stops displaying after the closing date.
Is it worth it?
Obviously that's for you to decide, but if you advertise say three jobs a year you'll save between £600 and £2000 on advertising. Alternatively, you can stick to your existing service and have the Schoolzone listings alongside for £40 a year.
There seem to be fewer jobs than in the TES
This is perhaps because our service is only for jobs for teachers (though not all in teaching - some are jobs in LAs, publishers etc) and not all education jobs. Plus, the Schoolzone service only launched in April 2008 and it will take a little while to build up numbers.
What other job finding services are on offer?
You can register for daily job alerts matching your criteria or subscribe to an RSS feed to see the latest jobs in your web browser or feed reader. You can, in many cases, apply for jobs online - directly to the school or local authority.
Why should I use it?
Advantages to you directly are that the service lists jobs you won't necessarily find in the TES (etc) because it is considerably cheaper to list them here. Your school also benefits from you using this service, because the more it is used the better it gets and so schools will eventually be able to move to using this service and save thousands of pounds a year on recruitment advertising.
Schoolzone is the busiest education site in real terms: there are more unique visitors per month to Schoolzone than any rival teaching jobs site. See the following data from April 2008 (click on titles for source information):
Guardian: 700,000 unique users a month for all jobs (not just teaching) - cost £700 per ad. TES online : 572,000 unique users (period not specified) - from £200 per ad (primary teachers). Eteach: over 240,000 unique visitors per month - £250 per ad or £650 per annum.
Schoolzone: 701,154 average unique users per month (average for 2007) - £40 (+VAT) per annum.
