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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:53 pm
@CaliPro
I can understand the confusion. I cant remember ever defining the difference, a recruiter is the person who handles the applicant pool and interviews you. They may not be a member of the schools staff, and may work for an outside agency. They may be a member of the schools staff, such as a teacher in the subject your applying for, and has expertise to assess your content area, typically the recruiter makes a reccomendation. Admins have actual hiring authority, they can "push the button", and can make you an actual offer and sign a contract. All admins are recruiters but not all recruiters are admins.
Schools have different levels of organization; in some schools hiring authority is empowered in the HOS (sometimes referred to as the director), in some schools its with the division principal (primary, secondary, DIP, etc), in some schools its with HR. Further complicating matters is that in IB the principal may be referred to as a coordinator (such as the DIP coordinator).
You would think that would be complicated enough, but given the fair schedule, a school needs to be in two places at once, so at a fair you may be interviewing with an AP or Deputy that doesnt have hiring authority. They have to either call someone to get approval or wait until after the fair for everyone to compare notes and then make a decision.
Always follow the vacancy instructions. Unless your submitting an unsolicited application, the vacancy should list the application email address. If you are submitting an unsolicited application, you cant go wrong sending it to the HOS, but you might have troubl finding the email address, in which case the website should have a general inquiry email address, and you just have to hope it gets to the right person. Sometimes you can "social engineer" the principal or HOSs email address. Most schools use the same convention for all addresses, so explore the schools website and you might find an announcement or news article or staff personal web page. Maybe its an announcement for the school fundraiser and you find an email for donations say its john.smith@isgenovia.net, well thats pretty much first name, last name separated by a period so if you find out the HOSs name (usually on the welcome page of the website) and their name happens to be Jane Doe, then you could try sending the email to jane.doe@isgenovia.net.
The IB maintains a list of IB schools, which you can filter by country among other things, so you can find the list of IB schools in Columbia here:
http://www.ibo.org/school/search/index. ... hools=Find
You can select different countries on the left hand side of the screen, and then just start selecting schools and navigating to their employment page, then bookmark the school in a folder maybe called Columbia.
The various regional accredidation agencies such as WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) maintain list of schools they have accredited. SCA including columbia typically pursue SACS (Souther Association of Colleges and Schools), which they have recently renamed "AdvancedEd" to refer to their K-12 accreditation branch. You can go to their website:
http://www.advanc-ed.org/
and at the top of the page click on "Find Schools" when you get to the search page just select Columbia from the drop down list and you get a list of the accrredited schools in Columbia:
Altamira International School
Colegio Albania
Colegio Bolivar
Colegio Bureche
Colegio Granadino
Colegio Jorge Washington
Colegio Karl C. Parrish
Colegio Nueva Granada
Colegio Panamericano
Fundacion Liceo Ingles
GI School
Liceo Taller San Miguel
Montessori British School
The Columbus School
I can understand the confusion. I cant remember ever defining the difference, a recruiter is the person who handles the applicant pool and interviews you. They may not be a member of the schools staff, and may work for an outside agency. They may be a member of the schools staff, such as a teacher in the subject your applying for, and has expertise to assess your content area, typically the recruiter makes a reccomendation. Admins have actual hiring authority, they can "push the button", and can make you an actual offer and sign a contract. All admins are recruiters but not all recruiters are admins.
Schools have different levels of organization; in some schools hiring authority is empowered in the HOS (sometimes referred to as the director), in some schools its with the division principal (primary, secondary, DIP, etc), in some schools its with HR. Further complicating matters is that in IB the principal may be referred to as a coordinator (such as the DIP coordinator).
You would think that would be complicated enough, but given the fair schedule, a school needs to be in two places at once, so at a fair you may be interviewing with an AP or Deputy that doesnt have hiring authority. They have to either call someone to get approval or wait until after the fair for everyone to compare notes and then make a decision.
Always follow the vacancy instructions. Unless your submitting an unsolicited application, the vacancy should list the application email address. If you are submitting an unsolicited application, you cant go wrong sending it to the HOS, but you might have troubl finding the email address, in which case the website should have a general inquiry email address, and you just have to hope it gets to the right person. Sometimes you can "social engineer" the principal or HOSs email address. Most schools use the same convention for all addresses, so explore the schools website and you might find an announcement or news article or staff personal web page. Maybe its an announcement for the school fundraiser and you find an email for donations say its john.smith@isgenovia.net, well thats pretty much first name, last name separated by a period so if you find out the HOSs name (usually on the welcome page of the website) and their name happens to be Jane Doe, then you could try sending the email to jane.doe@isgenovia.net.
The IB maintains a list of IB schools, which you can filter by country among other things, so you can find the list of IB schools in Columbia here:
http://www.ibo.org/school/search/index. ... hools=Find
You can select different countries on the left hand side of the screen, and then just start selecting schools and navigating to their employment page, then bookmark the school in a folder maybe called Columbia.
The various regional accredidation agencies such as WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) maintain list of schools they have accredited. SCA including columbia typically pursue SACS (Souther Association of Colleges and Schools), which they have recently renamed "AdvancedEd" to refer to their K-12 accreditation branch. You can go to their website:
http://www.advanc-ed.org/
and at the top of the page click on "Find Schools" when you get to the search page just select Columbia from the drop down list and you get a list of the accrredited schools in Columbia:
Altamira International School
Colegio Albania
Colegio Bolivar
Colegio Bureche
Colegio Granadino
Colegio Jorge Washington
Colegio Karl C. Parrish
Colegio Nueva Granada
Colegio Panamericano
Fundacion Liceo Ingles
GI School
Liceo Taller San Miguel
Montessori British School
The Columbus School