The TSN Team of consultants will work with key stakeholders to address the recruitment objectives of the organization. Upon completion of a digital audit, recommendations will be made to increase visibility in the targeted areas of need. The TSN Development Team will enhance the existing digital presence through best practices approach to development:

• Microsites
• Targeted Email Communication
• SEO
• Online Application

The challenge that comes with digital innovations is deciding which to leverage, and how to leverage them. Instead of launching one-off initiatives, the most successful brands are developing digital programs that are holistic, integrated and strategic. "Going digital" really means authentically interacting with an audience through all of the platforms that make sense - web, tablet, mobile, social media, offline - in order to reach the consumer in a way that is seamless, intuitive and enhances brand identity. In short, it is a strategic, comprehensive approach to digital that leverages user information across all relevant touch point to maximize customer value.

One thing's for sure: brands that do not commit to a holistic digital media strategy will perish. It is no longer a nice-to-have but an essential pillar of branding and marketing. Users are giving their time, trust, reputation to organizations; they should receive more than simply the product or service they buy in return. Digital media has the intrinsic power - today and 20 years from now - to deliver on that promise and TSN can help you by defining your digital universe and creating the road map to achieve it!

• User Research: We'll help you understand exactly what your users want and need to optimize engagement, with stakeholder interviews, user focus groups, user goals and archetypes, card sort studies, heat map evaluations, heuristic analysis and usability testing.
• Industry and Segment Best Practices: We'll leverage over a decade's worth of experience in best practices to enhance user experience. We'll look at your competitors and comparators to inform decision making and establish a feature/ value matrix where enhancements providing the greatest value are uniquely prioritized.
• Functional and Technological Road Map: We'll define the technology plan to get you from here to THERE - where risk is minimized and the greatest economic benefit derived!

The TSN Recruiters maintain an active, national candidate pool of 150,000+ educators, constantly cultivating those interested in growing professionally while positively impacting their students.

First impressions are lasting impressions. Through the National Teacher Recruiting Center, our recruiters put forward the best face of the organization - providing candidates with a clear, compelling portrait of the partner District, its goals, and its commitment to the highest quality teachers. Online tools make it easier to tell a convincing story in partnership with the District and our recruiters monitor and highlight the most effective aspects of the District Story.

The TSN Recruitment approach consists of the following elements to ensure a positive and successful partnership:

• Target high need areas as defined by Organization
• Cultivation combine District strategy with TSN reciprocity, salary, incentives, benefits, the *great* that is TeachNow
• Pipeline - we prefer to send hot prospects directly to a point person at the District
• Tracking weekly communication to track status (how do we make sure the HOT stay hot) - what can we do to help District foster stickiness offer feedback on better candidates and processes

Cultivation and a positive conversion outcome, as with all industry, relies upon a well timed and coordinated effort by the entire District. Many positions are high turn and quick fill, and the TSN Talent Tool readily facilitates the point-and-hire approach. Time-to-hire is critical for high value and highly qualified candidates. TSN provides for limitless communication strategies: time, time-from and time-to event, status, qualitative and manual; all captured and managed in one place. And coordinates the hiring strategy across critical stakeholder roles, automatically presenting the candidate through the appropriate District channels at the right time.

The system presents users with their tasks for the day in a facilitative manner to mitigate the "lost post-it" conundrum. And user-rich digital elements provide clear overviews of organizational performance.

Dashboard

Email History for this candidate

To best provide for tomorrow's students, Teachers Support Network (TSN) set out to create a comprehensive talent management platform for the Public Sector. TSN's ongoing research and development has resulted in a robust toolset, providing seamless interoperability with legacy systems, and the compatibility to optimize workflow for the most burdened HR organizations. Thus redirecting resources back into our communities.

TSNPartnerSelect allows our clients the ability to seamlessly integrate and test-in their own selection criteria; providing for ongoing assessment of hiring effectiveness via the Candidate Quality Index as well as the Teacher Quality Index.

Video Review

Candidate Quality Index

There is a tremendous amount of data at the fingertips of complex HR organizations, oft residing in multiple data tables and legacy system, with limited accessibility. In an effort to provide transparency, TSN integrates with various legacy systems to pull relevant data, providing for cross system correlation and verification of "information", resulting in a homogenized TSN tracking tool.

TSN's robust audit trail, time stamps all user activity in the system. We collectively identify the importance of the data and utilize rich dashboards to display the effect "engagement" can have on the sum of the recruiting, selection, tracking and placement cycle.

The TSN toolbox comes complete with every tool necessary for States and Districts to meet the challenges of an ever-evolving landscape.

Heat Map

Teachers Support Network's core business consists of providing its customers with an extremely powerful and user-friendly Talent Acquisition System and, alone in the field, providing a fully integrated, comprehensive and cost-effective solution that encompasses the entire recruitment cultivation assessment selection on-boarding retention continuum.

By taking a longitudinal approach to the continuum, TSN is able to provide rich insight into the effectiveness of a hiring effort on the long-term health of the organization.

Longitudinal View - This Year

Longitudinal View - Detail

TSN's comprehensive approach to the hiring life cycle provides for seamless on-boarding and site selection. The tool facilitates the dance between Hiring Admin and Candidate, by connecting the right candidate to the right opportunity. Thanks in part to the TSN CQI dashboard, organizations can display a visual representation of the likelihood for success based upon empirical evidence.

Principal view of position matches

Applicant view of positions

Upon selection, candidate and hiring admin will be walked through the approval process, inclusive of on-boarding documents and payroll verification. The TSN TQI dashboard provides key stakeholders with visual indicators to actively monitor the effectiveness of the new hire, as well as effect of historical recruitment efforts impact in the classroom.

Onboarding Welcome

Onboarding Forms

To effectively retain, one must effectively recruit to identify the best fit for the opportunity. The fact remains that complex HR Organizations in Education are hiring people to work for people and educate people; and to ensure stickiness, a human connection must be made between Recruiters and Hiring Admins and their Applicants. TSN has unified the oft silo disciplines of Recruitment, Cultivation, Assessment, Selection, On-Boarding and Retention into a unified approach. The TSN System automates and facilitates speed of the Organization's procedural needs to provide greater face time between the right decision maker and qualified applicant.

The TSN process for initiating, maintain, tracking and reporting all correspondence and interaction with applicants begins with TSN's "Recruitment Central" module the hub of all TSN District activity. This completely customizable module allows for rich level of user interaction and workflow management.

Workflow may be configurable to include candidate application, prescreen, interview, assessments, offers, background checks, work history and other certification/licensure "Snapshot" data to enable informed and complete decision making, and all may be managed to provide various levels of permissions and access indeed, the current TSN deployment at the NYC DOE, provides unique levels of system application access: TRQ for Teachers and Master/ Lead Teachers, the TRQ Student Teacher group for Student Teachers, the Pupil Personnel Group (PPS) for Speech Language Pathology and PPS related titles (guidance counselor, attendance teacher, social worker, etc.), the Substitute group for Substitute Teachers and Paraprofessionals, the school leadership office for Principal and Assistant Principal application activity and the LEAP application review team for select leadership applications and each has its own unique set of workflow and process requirements inherent!

In total the same TSN recruiting central platform module supports every DOE group uniquely and comprehensively...and each respective group is provided with specific role based permissions access within application group; some may have read-only access with limited views, others may have recruiter level access or coordinator level access for discreet management of activities. Regardless of the application group being managed, the TSN system provides a comprehensive solution for all application review, tracking, selection and communication!

The TSN "Tracker" allows districts to track candidate engagement along a number of key dimensions, including system logins, event attendance, system vacancy searches and presents the data using a visual heat map. This data, along with high need vacancy data can be used to better inform select decisions and ensure the optimal candidate placement. Moreover, a similar set of metrics may be used to track school engagement - that is to ensure that the school is using the tools available to find and select the right candidate. School "engagement" may be measured using metrics such as system logins, candidate searches, vacancy postings and event attendance.

Together, the candidate and school "engagement" levels are key TSN metrics in ensuring an optimal fit between high need vacancies and the very best candidate for the position.

Dashboards are a critical component to the TSN system, providing immediate, dynamic access to key operational metrics in a visually lush, highly informative manner. Indeed, TSN Dashboards are customizable to present critical recruiting and tracking data in the most effective way for any organization - data such as candidate sourcing, diversity, high need subject areas, key placement locations and funnel management ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the Human Resources team. Imagine having real-time access to key campaign and source information to determine the optimal way to spend precious marketing dollars! Imagine having immediate access to key recruitment funnel activity so you can make logical projections and informed decisions. Key stakeholders can view recruiter performance and productivity and funnel management to optimize response times and quality benchmarks are inherent in the process. It is all readily available with TSN's Dashboards!

Dashboards are a critical component to the TSN system, providing immediate, dynamic access to key operational metrics in a visually lush, highly informative manner. And, importantly, the ability to customize Dashboards is critically important as different organizations function differently - even within the same District! Indeed, TSN Dashboards are customizable to present critical recruiting and tracking data in the most effective way for any organization - data such as candidate sourcing, diversity, high need subject areas, key placement locations and funnel management ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the Human Resources team. Imagine having real-time access to key campaign and source information to determine the optimal way to spend precious marketing dollars! Imagine having immediate access to key recruitment funnel activity so you can make logical projections and informed decisions. Key stakeholders can view recruiter performance and productivity and funnel management to optimize response times and quality benchmarks are inherent in the process. Its all readily available with TSN's Dashboards!

This example for The School Leadership group supporting all school leadership hiring - Principals, Assistance Principals, Executive Principals - shows the candidate funnel at every key juncture in the recruiting and selection process. Moreover, key time intervals are tracked to ensure timely candidate communication - key in the overall candidate engagement process. Potential jeopardies are highlighted - before a potential miss occurs, rather than after the problem arises. Improve employee productivity, track goals and competencies, and take the pain out of performance reviews.

Candidate application tracking is comprehensive and a complete archive of all communication is readily accessible in the TSN System. In this example, a given candidate has a long history of applying for various district vacancies - this is important information in understanding the wholeness of a candidates engagement with a district. For each application, the outcomes is readily available including key communication elements, assessment data and evaluation scores to ensure complete access to necessary information when making selection decisions.

This TSN implementation is all about system integration - in this example, complete integration with a District's ERP System - PeopleSoft. School budgets and vacancy allotments are entered into PeopleSoft and then dynamically integrated with TSN to ensure that only valid, approved, funded vacancies are posted and accessible to candidates. Complete school rosters are also posted for Principals for a complete view of school staffing. As candidates apply for given vacancies, hiring managers are able to view applications, screening and assessment information, work history, finger print data and any other relevant information - all in the TSN System - to allow for optimal candidate selection - expedient communication and robust documentation. Hiring acceptance is even completed online to minimize paperwork and maximize time to decision!

The TSN Preference Builder allows candidates to single-handedly control their search. Tools such as geographic, discipline, circumstance and subject area allow candidates to establish preferences for vacancy management. And, those came tools allow hiring managers to engage with candidates actively actively seeking vacancies with key criteria. Again, the TSN System pulls it all together to ensure the best candidate match for any given vacancy. Importantly, numerous tools are made available to the candidate to ensure engagement - visual queue, numeric indicators and contextual help are all provided to stimulate engagement because at TSN we have learned that active engagement ensures better outcomes!

The TSN Magnet School Program was created to ensure that school selection is an easy, intuitive and secure process for families seeking the very best school for their student. The application begins with ranking preferred schools based on key academic and social attributes. Applications are completed and made easy for families where English may not be a first language - visual queues, color and numeric indicators are presented and contextual help always available. Moreover, immediate confirmation of submission and robust ongoing communications archives and candidate portals are presented so parents can tarck applications every step of the way!

One the District side, once applications are submitted, candidate dossiers are dynamically created by integrating with student performance systems to add student classroom achievement, state test score data and attendance data to present educators with amore robust view of a students strengths. weakness and likelihood for success at a given magnet School. Additionally, candidate evaluations and recommendations are also systemically generated and collected to provide an overall, comprehensive view of a candidate.