Ednex sponsored our ResearchSEND Conference in Sheffield on the 17.11.2017. I wrote this for them for a marketing piece they were putting together.

Michelle Haywood argues that the Education Sector needs modern recruitment solutions such as Ednex – The Education Career Network
Teachers like to collect things.
They collect powerpoints from conferences and training events they have attended.
They collect leaflets of resources they might want
They collect downloads from resource sites.
Teachers like paper copies of things and they like to store them in boxes, they have boxes of resources and lesson plans and staff meeting minutes. Some of this is no longer useful and can be culled every so often, but that’s not quite true of my career history, which I regularly need to refer to for new positions, conference speaking and consultancy work.
As a teacher I stored my career history firstly in a box and then lately on memory sticks and cloud storage, and every time I want to apply for a new position, I have to go through the box and sort out the relevant experience, I then have to find the correct memory stick and see if I have already typed it up, and if not re type. For example recently I wanted to mention a project I undertook to gain my National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH), as I have had several laptops since I undertook this, I spent a considerable amount of time searching through memory sticks and piles of paper to find the information I needed.
I have recently discovered Ednex, a platform which can store my career history, in a chronological form, so that it is easily accessible. I especially like that it keeps hold of the lesser examples of my career, which I may not refer to in a letter of application for a new position, but may require, for example, if I am commissioning a new piece of work as a consultant.
For teachers, all CPD can be added, such as the maths mastery staff meeting, the half session on PREVENT and the full day INSET day when Ruth Miskin introduced Read,Write, INC, as well as CPD which may have been undertaken in a teacher’s own time, such as Post Graduate Certificate or Masters’ Qualification.
Ednex are asking all teachers to register initially to record their career history, this will be easier for final year students on Initial Teaching Education (ITE) courses and Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) than the more experienced amongst us, but once a career history is uploaded, and a teacher is looking for a promotion or is relocating or returning from maternity leave, they can open their profile and connect with all the Schools registered on Ednex who are looking for staff to fill current vacancies.
The Key State of the Nation, Survey Report (2017) found that staff retention is suffering due to negative portrayals of the teaching profession across social media and the popular press, and publicised workforce issues within Senior Leadership Teams (SLTs)  which are preventing teachers from applying for promotions to leadership positions. Sometimes a match made by Ednex, which had not been considered before, may gently persuade a teacher to take on a more senior role and go one step further to filling the growing number of unfilled leadership posts.

Ednex therefore not only supports Teachers to grow and develop their professional profile, but by linking the profile to Schools and Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) in the Ednex network it can broker the career profiles of teachers seeking new positions, and can provide details such as Key Stages, Sectors and Specialisms, as well as providing Schools and MATs with the assurances that staff have not only got comprehensive career history, but that Safer Recruitment checks such as Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and Identification have taken place prior to shortlisting .
A Teacher’s Career history can be completed and further details of the benefits for Senior Leadership Teams (SLT) can be found at http://www.ednex.co.uk

Michelle Haywood Is a SEND Consultant, a Senior Lecturer for Primary Education at the University of Wolverhampton and the Co-founder of @ResearchSEND