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Build Your Dream Team: How to Recruit, Train, and Retain Early Childhood Staff - Paperback

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Category: Administration & Program Development

Finding the right people to staff your center is challenging! Have you ever hired someone you thought was perfect, only to have her leave after a few months? Have you filled a position with a "warm body" to maintain the adult-child ratio because you couldn't find a more qualified candidate?



Recruiting is an ongoing process that requires reflection, dedication, and importantly, a solid plan. But the plan isn't always easy to craft, especially when you're understaffed!



Build Your Dream Team

will help you take the first step to creating your plan and will remain your right-hand guide as you hire, onboard, and nurture your new all-stars.



Learn how to:
  • Master effective recruiting techniques
  • Craft effective job posts
  • Conduct data-based interviews
  • Make job offers more attractive
  • Onboard new employees to make them part of your team
  • Think strategically to plan for growth
  • Work with a diverse staff
  • Train staff for continual professional growth

Paperback. 128 pages.

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Customer Reviews (4.7 / 5 · 3 reviews)

Lucy ★★★★★

The concrete hiring checklists in this book have already saved me from making a bad hire twice. I’m finding the sections on staff retention particularly useful for our center’s current turnover issues.

Lily ★★★★★

The chapter on why staff leave after the "perfect hire" honeymoon phase hit painfully close to home, and I finally feel like I have a real roadmap instead of guesswork. The recruitment section alone is worth the price, but the retention strategies are what I've already started using at my center thi

Lily M. ★★★★☆

I've been in early childhood admin for years, and the practical interview questions in this book already helped me spot a candidate who wouldn't have lasted. The training templates are straightforward enough to actually use Monday morning.