How Does Cal/West Help Schools Find "Perfect" Educators?

Because we have been providing services to schools in the west since 1987, we have an excellent track record of finding qualified educators. When school leaders call Cal/West they save a significant amount of energy, resources, time, and money by using our services to assist them in finding terrific faculty members, department chairs, directors, and other essential staff. We handle outreach, advertising, recruiting, screening of resumes, and preliminary interviews year-round, so that school representatives can use their time to consider only pre-qualified applicants.

It is our personal relationships with school administrators and candidates, plus our location and focus in California and other western states that make us different from other, larger recruitment firms.


Services We Provide

• Permanent placement staffing services for all of your school's teaching, administration, and leadership positions.
• Year round regional and nationwide recruitment of administrators and teachers through networking, referrals, conferences, presentations at colleges and universities, internet sites, and magazine and newspaper ads with team members in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Boston, Philadelphia/Pittsburgh..
• Personal, in-depth pre-screening of all candidates before they are referred to your school for further consideration.
• Accessibility seven days a week to assist school leaders.
• Annual events in Southern California, Northern California, and at the NAIS National Conference, to facilitate face-to-face meetings between candidates and school representatives.
• A full-time headquarters and professional staff in Southern California, plus regional recruiters in Northern California and across the country.
• For selected senior positions, we conduct and manage intensive Retained Searches and work with a school’s search committee to customize a search to the school’s specific needs.
• When a school seeks objective, outside advice on issues of organization and management, we are available to visit your campus, consult with you in confidence, and offer our opinions on a variety of issues and concerns.
   

We recruit:

• Senior Leaders – all positions including Head of School, Associate or Assistant Head, Principal, Director of Development, Director of Admissions, Associate Director of Development, Associate Director of Admissions, Division Head, Department Chair, Dean, College Counselor, Business Manager, Technology Director, etc.
• Elementary School – classroom and specialist teachers for pre-K through 6th grade.
• Middle School – teachers with single-subject expertise and classroom experience for grades 6-8.
• High School – teachers with single-subject expertise and classroom experience for grades 9-12.
• Special Education - special education teachers with credentials, and aides with expertise and experience working with a variety of special needs populations such as SED, LD, LH, DD, VH, and HH.
• Specialists - a variety of areas: educational therapist, gifted and talented, media, librarian, computer and technology instructors and directors, resource specialists, etc.
• Pre-school – teachers for infant to pre-K classes, site directors, parent/toddler facilitators, after school instructors, associates, assistants, interns, and special needs programs.
   

Cal/West Educators Placement fees in contingent searches are 14% of the annual salary for the first full-time hire in a given academic year, 13% for the second hire in that same year, and 12% for the third and any subsequent hires in that same year. There are no fees to list an opening, and no annual membership fees. Placement fees for part-time, temporary, or summer school-only hires are 15%. Fees for Retained Searches are determined on an individual basis.