ETB Open Call for Employee Career Stories
In response to challenges highlighted by ETBs in relation to the recruitment of staff, a project team of the ETB Communications Network is currently designing an advertising campaign focused on our employer brand. The ETB sector is working collaboratively on this project supported by ETBI. The purpose of the campaign will be to:
- Raise awareness of ETBs as an employer brand.
- Attract more applicants for ETB jobs.
- Raise awareness of ETBs amongst our target groups (graduates, returners, student teachers, OSD technical experts/professionals etc.).
- Increase traffic to ETB recruitment pages.
- Attract more diverse applicants.
We need your help!
As part of this campaign, we want to feature a broad range of ETB staff to show the breadth of employment opportunities across schools, further education and training, organisation support and development and youth.
To represent the inclusive and diverse nature of ETBs, we want to feature staff who represent Ireland today. We are particularly interested in stories that showcase the excellent work being done in education and training across our ETBs and how this has had an impact on the lives of our learners.
We’d like the campaign to feature five of the following:
- A craft instructor / training centre instructor who is ideally a former apprentice.
- A teacher in a post-primary school who is potentially a young principal or deputy principal.
- A special needs assistant who may have retrained and moved from a different career.
- A specialist from Organisational Support and Development (OSD) who works in one of the following areas: energy management / sustainability, buildings / property management, procurement, recruitment, governance or cyber security.
- An Outdoor Education and Training instructor who may have upskilled from a similar field.
- A guidance counsellor.
- A Youthreach worker.
We would welcome staff who meet the above criteria but could also fulfil one of the below:
- A staff member from a border county
- A graduate-age teacher (22-26)
- A gaelgeoir
- A mature staff member (representing someone who has returned to work / made a career change later in life)
For the campaign we would like to our content to feature:
- A mix of rural and urban regions
- Diversity of gender, ethnicity and disability
ETBs are a great place to work, we have locations in every county in Ireland and this is the perfect opportunity to highlight this to future prospective employees.
Requirements
We are open to hearing staff stories that fit the above profiles, however, they will need to meet some criteria:
- Be a current employee of an ETB.
- Be comfortable speaking on camera.
- Have an interesting/ compelling story about their career path / place of work.
- Be willing to participate in any media / promotion relating to the campaign.
How to apply?
Please submit details (below) and a maximum 500 words on your nominated staff member, including details on:
- Why their story is interesting / unique?
- Biographical and contact information about the nominee, including their name, age, where they are living, their role with the ETB.
- Why they should be included in the campaign.
You can submit any number of staff stories, but they must meet the requirements listed above.
Please submit the application and a short introduction video of staff member (phone recording is acceptable) via the website portal here. (Max 2 minutes in duration).
Five stories in total will be selected to feature as part of this campaign, however stories not selected may be used in an organic social media campaign.
Closing date for entries is Friday, 6th December at 5.00pm
Use this form to Submit your Application
