Ten Steps to Effective Hiring

Hiring the best candidate is the ultimate goal of the hiring process. It provides an opportunity for a school to learn if the candidate is the right fit for the school, and for the candidate to evaluate if the school is the right fit for the candidate. A well-devised hiring process also allows a school to screen out undesirable candidates such as ones with a prior criminal history, fraudulent application information, or poor work record which would evidence that the candidate may be dangerous or otherwise an inappropriate fit for a private school setting. The hiring process is often also an employee’s first experience to begin to learn about a school’s mission and culture; an important factor to help establish a mutually satisfying employment relationship.

This program will help heads of schools, deans, human resource professionals, and others involved in the hiring process to understand, develop, and adopt policies and procedures that help to ensure a legally compliant and effective hiring process.

Registration Information

• Free for participants from SAIS member schools
• $25 for participants from non-member schools

Please contact learn@sais.org with any questions.

Speaker

Linda Johnson
Senior Director & Chair of the Education Law Group, McLane Middleton

Bio

Linda Johnson, is senior director and chair of the Education Law Group, McLane Middleton. Linda focuses her practice on understanding and serving the needs of K-12 independent day and boarding schools. For over 30 years, Linda has worked closely with heads of schools, school administrators, deans, financial officers, board chairs, trustees, and others. She advises her clients on all aspects of school operations including employment law, student discipline, contracts, fiduciary and tort law, policy and handbook development, leadership development, investigations, compliance audits, risk management, crisis response, and student safety. She is nationally recognized as an authority on student and campus safety issues, boundary awareness, risk avoidance, crisis response, employment law, and independent school law issues. She trains her clients on how to operate safely, how to recognize and address signs of inappropriate behavior, and how to respond to allegations of misconduct. Linda helps to guide schools to “do the right thing, the right way.”

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