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

When administrators call Cal/West, they save a significant amount of resources, time and money by using our services to assist them. We take care of advertising, marketing materials, postage, screening, and preliminary interviews. Schools turn to us knowing that we extend ourselves both in our recruitment efforts and in our commitment to provide a variety of options for all staffing requirements.

Because we have been providing services to schools in the west since 1987, we have an excellent track record of finding qualified educators when schools need them. It is our personal relationships with school administrators and candidates, plus our location in California, that make us different from other, larger recruitment firms.

Services We Provide

• Permanent placement staffing services for all of your school's educational and administrative positions.
• Local and nationwide recruitment of administrators and teachers through networking, referrals, presentations at colleges and universities, Internet sites, and magazine and newspaper ads.
• Personal, in-depth pre-screening of all candidates before they are referred to your school.
• Complete accessibility by telephone, e-mail, fax, or on-site visits to assist you with your staffing.
• Local, full-time headquarters in Southern California, plus regional recruiters in Northern California and Massachusetts.
• For certain senior positions, we conduct Retained Searches and work on-site with search committees where customize our services to meet each school's needs.
• Consulting - 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 :
  • Administrators – all positions including Head of School, Assistant Head, Principal, Director, Director of Development, Director of Admissions, Associate Director of Development, Associate Director of Admissions, Division Head, Department Chair, Dean, Counselor, Business Manager, Technology Director, etc.
  • Elementary School – teachers for pre-K-6.
  • Middle School – teachers with single-subject expertise and classroom experience grades 6-8.
  • High School – teachers with single-subject expertise and classroom experience 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, etc.
  • Pre-school – teachers for infants to pre-K classes, site directors, parent/toddler facilitators, after school instructors, associates, assistants, interns, and special needs programs.

Fee Schedule
Cal/West Educators Placement fees 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, 12% for the third and any subsequent hires in that same year. Fees for part-time or summer school-only hires are 15%.