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Teacher Recruitment Marketing Jo Murawski Marketing Executive. Our main focus. Teacher Training Scholarships Marketing October 2013 – April 2014 150 Scholarships to award £25,000 tax-free. Scholarship campaign design. Integrated campaign: Blog, email, Facebook & Twitter.
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Teacher Recruitment MarketingJo MurawskiMarketing Executive
Teacher Training Scholarships Marketing October 2013 – April 2014 150 Scholarships to award £25,000 tax-free
Scholarship campaign stats • Web views www.iop.org/scholarships22,170 page views (17,694 unique views) 24% more views than same period last year so word is definitely out! • IOP Blog articles – over 30% more time spent on page than other blog posts. People are engaged with Scholarships • Tweets – 57 since October (approx 10 per month)
Scholarship figures to date • 491 applications to date • 7 assessment days and 4 still to go • 71 scholarships offered • Still 79 left to award! • Two deadlines remaining: 16 May and 16 June
Data • 1,970 people on our prospects database • Details obtained at events and through website sign-up form • Emailed on a monthly basis with information about teaching and scholarships • Very high engagement: emails receive 30-35% open rate and 10-15% click through rate
Where have we been? • Hosted 10 Insight into Teaching events(2 more still to go) • Attended 5 NCTL Train to Teach events • Attended 2 NCTL Career Changer events • Attended 7 Careers Fairs • We’ve met 262 prospects!
Challenges • Universities overwhelmed with employer events • Engineering departments not so receptive • Final year students not attending events Anecdotal research from careers advisers: “I personally feel that tuition fees are having some effect in making some people think earlier about their potential careers” “Final year students may be concentrating on getting a good high classification degree and therefore forfeit career planning and career researching till after they have obtained the degree”
School Experience Programme (SEP) • Still going strong! • 673 schools on database • 87 people matched to a school so far this year • Always looking for new schools • Look out for rebrand later this year.
What next? • It’s not too late to apply campaign for undergraduate physics students • More focus on engineering • Redesign School Experience Programme