SchoolRecruiter, part of the Eteach Group, has been awarded a 3-year contract with Oasis Community Learning (OCL), one of the UK’s largest multi-academy trusts, to provide an enhanced recruitment management software and Applicant Tracking System (ATS) across their 54 academies. This is part of a trust-wide digitisation strategy and seeks to streamline all facets of recruitment whilst improving candidate attraction and retention in an increasingly competitive market.
As a leading multi-academy trust, OCL is committed to providing high-quality education and supports over 32,000 students. By partnering with SchoolRecruiter, a market-leading ATS, OCL will leverage bespoke technology for a scalable, multi-channel, and data-driven recruitment approach – enhancing hiring processes across the entire trust.
Recruitment innovation with technology
Schools and trusts across the education sector are no longer having to rely on expensive, outdated, and ineffective recruitment methods. SchoolRecruiter empowers schools and trusts to adopt multi-channel, scalable strategies that are powered by smart technology and automation. SchoolRecruiter will support OCL to build a high-quality, future-proofed talent pipeline using global advert broadcasting, automation tools, and an efficient recruitment framework across the trust, helping to address rising challenges such as teacher shortages, budget constraints, and growing competition for talent - both in education and against wider sectors.
Rhys Howells
Managing Director - Eteach
"We are thrilled to be working with Oasis Community Learning to help transform their recruitment processes and ensure they can attract and hire the best talent to serve their communities," said Rhys Howells, Managing Director, Eteach Group. "Our platform is designed specifically for the unique needs of the education sector, and we look forward to working closely with OCL to drive true efficiencies, enhance the candidate experience, and develop robust recruitment strategies for the modern era."
“In an increasingly mobile-first world, schools and trusts need to reimagine their recruitment, removing barriers to application, as well as speaking the language that modern jobseekers want to engage with. SchoolRecruiter will enable OCL to stay ahead by strengthening its employer brand and streamlining the entire hiring journey - from vacancy creation to candidate onboarding.”
Nick Boothroyd
Head of Talent Acquisition at Oasis Community Learning
“Oasis Community Learning MAT chose SchoolRecruiter as our preferred ATS provider for several stand-out reasons. The product is specifically designed around the needs of the education sector with a heavy focus on the requirements of KCSIE and wider GDPR essentials. The customisable nature of the platform means we can adapt the candidate and hiring manager experience to suit our needs, whilst ensuring we retain the best-in-class processes and ways of working embedded within the platform.”
“It was the level of, and attention to, customer support that clinched the deal. Nothing is too much trouble and the entire team at SchoolRecruiter have been truly outstanding. If you are looking for a genuine partner who listens, considers and works with you to come up with innovative, workable solutions to candidate attraction and recruitment workflow management, then look no further.”
Driving results across core pillars of hiring
Throughout the collaboration, OCL will benefit from a comprehensive suite of recruitment tools and features, including a matrix of custom-branded Career Sites, automated applicant tracking, mobile-optimised application forms, global vacancy broadcasting, and robust analytics that provide actionable data.
Empowered by SchoolRecruiter, this marks a notable shift in how multi-academy trusts like OCL approach their hiring; moving away from reactive and costly hiring methods to a proactive model that prioritises quality, efficiency, and return on investment. With tracking, analytics and reporting that give actionable insights, OCL will be able to see measurable benefits on a localised school level whilst standardising and enhancing their trust-wide recruitment practices at the same time - all supported closely by the original pioneers of online school recruitment, Eteach.
About SchoolRecruiter
The Eteach Group is an EdTech software and services company, dedicated to providing education recruitment solutions to over 7,500 schools worldwide. As part of Eteach Group, SchoolRecruiter is the market-leading applicant tracking system (ATS) platform designed specifically for trusts and schools to streamline every facet of the hiring process, saving time, reducing costs, and attracting high-quality candidates.
About Oasis Community Learning
Oasis Community Learning was established as a Multi-Academy Trust in 2004 with the vision to create “Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community”. They now run academies in five main regions throughout the UK, providing either Primary, Secondary or All-through education to over 32,000 young people - 47% of whom are from disadvantaged backgrounds and 31% speak English as an additional language.
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Hear from Oasis Community Learning:
"I've found the system really easy to use. It's been much simpler to have applications, references and all candidate information held within SchoolRecruiter. I found the template communications to candidates was a much better and caring way to acknowledge candidates. Our Senior Leadership Team have benefitted from having access to candidate information and applications, which has led to good quality discussions about recruitment, making it a team approach. Overall, it has been much more efficient and easier to use, with a much better output in terms of applicant numbers too."
Amelia Nelson
Principal, Oasis Bankleaze
"The system is very simple to use and having all the information in one place makes life MUCH easier. The team at SchoolRecruiter have been amazing."
Danielle Herridge
Operations Manager, Daventry Road
“I have just put my first advert on, it was so much easier and quick, really impressed.”
Debra McDonald
Business Manager, Harpur Mount