Solving Increased Labor Demand for a Local Charter School
Client Overview
- Company: a local charter school
- Industry: Charter School – Education
- Location: Elon, North Carolina
- Company Size: Approximately 150
The Challenge
The school experienced a variety of needs that they needed assistance filling.
These included:
- School Nurse
- Custodian
- HR Assistant
- Administrative Assistant
The school had seen turnover, expansion for a new high school building, and a new need for a medical nurse on campus.
Additional challenges included:
- Tight local labor market and high competition for talent
- They are a year-round school; therefore, school breaks fall differently than traditional school breaks.
- Limited internal HR bandwidth to manage recruiting and onboarding
- Higher level of confidentiality as well as government mandates
Our Approach
Our staffing team immediately scheduled a meeting with their Finance and HR Director to conduct a workforce assessment to understand:
- Their immediate openings
- Their barriers and challenges to hire
- Their current hiring qualifications and requirements
- Their training and onboarding procedures
- Culture and leadership style
We then developed a targeted recruiting strategy that included:
- Reaching out to our existing talent pipeline
- Marketing the positions through multiple sources, including job boards and social media platforms
- Communicating with our community partners, local schools, and workforce partners
- Pre-interviewing candidates for reliability and culture fit
- Providing candidates with realistic job previews to reduce turnover
- Offering flexible temp-to-hire solutions to support long-term stability
- Promotion of job fairs to recruit for talent
This hands-on, tailored approach ensured the school would only receive candidates who were qualified, dependable, and prepared.
The Solution
Our staffing team delivered a rapid and effective staffing solution:
- All roles were filled quickly with candidates who went temp to hire successfully
- Candidates were praised as being some of their finest full-time employees they had on staff
- Held orientations and onboarding to ensure a smooth transition
- Weekly check-ins monitored performance, attendance, and fit
Client Testimonial
“We’ve developed a great partnership with Prime Personnel over the past few years. Their team provided a personable and professional experience. We had to explore hiring support staff positions through a different lens, and Prime Personnel provided us quality and hard-working candidates that are some of our finest full-time employees.”
— Finance and HR Director
Why They Chose Us
The school selected our staffing firm because of our:
- Local presence within our community and our long tenure of staff
- Reputation as the staffing firm of choice
- High-quality pre-screening process
- Commitment to understanding their business and culture
- Ability to deliver consistent, reliable talent
- Clear and responsive communication
- Commitment to candidate selectivity
