Deep Dive: Schrole Engage
Created to provide a consistent and professional experience for all newly hired staff and faculty, Schrole Engage replaces onboarding spreadsheets, document folders, checklists and email trails.
The magic of onboarding
While often viewed as a purely administrative, tedious task, Schrole believes the onboarding process is the perfect opportunity for international schools to:
- Improve employment engagement and productivity by providing individualised support and training before arrival.
- Improve retention rate, resulting in saved money and time. (Schools that implement a formal onboarding program see a 50% greater employee retention among new hires. Source: Harvard Business Review)
- Make a great first impression to all new hires.
- Reduce paperwork and filing.
In fact, we’re so passionate about onboarding in the international education space we even have a free webinar on the subject.
There are a number of easy and low-cost ways to set up your school’s onboarding process, including email folders, Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and Google Drive. However, these methods become overwhelming when onboarding multiple hires. That’s where Schrole comes in.
Onboarding with Schrole Engage
Built specifically for International Schools, Schrole Engage allows your schools to create unique onboarding templates that reflect the requirements for any new employee. This includes expat/local staff, leadership roles, year groups and teaching areas. You can even create workflows for existing staff and faculty who may need to do a compliance procedure such as child safeguarding training. Once you’ve started the Engage process, it’s quick and easy to replicate. But don’t worry, if you have any questions, Schrole is always here to help.
As part of these templates, new hires can securely sign and upload contracts and other documents through DocuSign; upload personal details and confidential information, including visas; and read and agree to policy and procedure documents in advance.
Keep track of new hires
Keeping all your new hires on schedule is the key to good onboarding. Engage allows you to keep track of every staff member’s progress and to easily and quickly send reminders.
On the dashboard, statuses and due dates are displayed prominently against each new hire so you and your team are able to easily identify any delays or reasons for concern.
Want to review progress? You can sort by onboarding completion percentage, or search/filter by employee name or job type. Archive completed plans for an easy and auditable reference at a later date.
Schrole Engage is designed to work with you, regardless of how and where you’re recruiting
While Schrole Connect gives you access to 180,000+ international teaching candidates, 67% of which have taught one or more IB program (PYP, MYP, DP), and 39% in one or more UK curriculum (including Cambridge, ENC, GCSE and A Level), we understand that you may fill positions either from direct applications or alternative job boards.
That’s why in addition to seamlessly integrating and prefilling information from Schrole Connect, Schrole Engage allows you to onboarding candidates hired externally.
Schrole Engage keeps you and your team accountable
Every step and every interaction in the onboarding process is recorded with auditable time and date stamps in our online platform, allowing team members to always be on the same page and work seamlessly together.
It also allows your team to keep track of the onboarding process, identifying any internal bottlenecks or areas for improvement.
Reject documents which haven’t been uploaded correctly
An onboarding procedure is not complete unless you’re happy. As a school user, you have the power to reject documents which haven’t been uploaded correctly, as well as view auditable time and date stamps of every step and interaction.
No more searching through email trails to find conversations or difficulty finding the most recent/correct copy of a file.
Protect the confidentiality of potential and current staff members with Schrole Engage
Our online onboarding platform allows you to capture personal details and confidential information centrally and securely, as well as collect signatures with the world’s number one digital signature platform, DocuSign.
By requesting and storing documents in one centralised location, you’ll never waste time looking for a file again!
With Engage, you can expect your onboarding process to take half the time it usually does, and be safe in the knowledge that every new hire will experience a seamless onboarding experience.
Considering Engage for your school? Contact us today. In just 30 minutes, Schrole will have your school’s standardised onboarding templates ready to go and your new staff members on their onboarding journey.
Full access
To career opportunities across the globe
- Ability to create a unique educator profile that holds your references and important documents, such as teaching qualifications, all in one location.
- Access to our entire database of 400+ international schools representing 100+ countries.
- 5,000+ teaching vacancies every recruitment season.
- Unlimited number of job applications.
- Custom alerts so you’re the first to hear when your preferred roles are posted.
- Access to virtual and in-person recruitment events with school leaders and recruiters.
Limited access
To career opportunities across the globe
- Ability to create a unique educator profile that holds your references and important documents, such as teaching qualifications, all in one location.
- Access to our entire database of schools to discover your next teaching role.
- Submission of three job applications.
Schrole has been a reliable platform for us to access strong candidates and Schrole staff have been very helpful throughout the recruiting process. I very much look forward to a long working relationship with Schrole.
Brian Lalor Primary Principal
Xi’an Liangjiatan International School