Education Requirements for Home Visitors
Discover how to find and hire the right candidate to be a home visitor. Explore ways to match applicants with the required knowledge, skills, and competencies.
Talent Acquisition
Building a workforce that meets program needs is the top objective of all recruitment and hiring practices.
These resources cover the full range of talent acquisition activities, including recruiting and interviewing candidates and onboarding new employees.
Education Requirements for Health Services Managers and Health Professionals
Use this brief to review the Head Start regulations and education requirements for health services managers and professionals (e.g., mental health consultants and staff or consultants who support nutrition services).
Education Requirements for Center-based Preschool Assistant Teachers
Learn how to find and hire the right candidate to fill an assistant teacher position in Head Start programs. Explore how to match applicants with the required knowledge, skills, and competencies.
Education Requirements for Center-based Preschool Teachers
In this brief, explore ways to find and hire the right candidate to fill preschool teaching positions. Learn how to match potential applicants with the required knowledge, skills, and competencies.
Education Requirements for Center-based Infant and Toddler Teachers
Explore this brief to learn how to find and hire the right candidate to fill an infant/toddler teaching position. Learn ways to match potential applicants with the necessary knowledge, skills, and competencies.
Education Requirements for Child Development Specialists
Learn ways to find and hire the right candidate to fill a child development specialist position. Explore how to match applicants with the necessary knowledge, skills, and competencies.
Recruiting Child Care Providers
Finding the right child care partner can be difficult. Discover how two grantees recruited child care partners and worked together with them to implement an Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program.
Staff Recruitment and Retention
Explore this document to find examples of state systems and policies that support recruiting and retaining a highly qualified workforce. Also, find additional research and resources on the topic.
Essential Interview Questions for Exceptional Staff
Hiring is one of a manager's most important responsibilities. This article offers tips for making the most of your limited time with a prospective employee.
Introduction to Competency-Based Hiring
Core competencies have been applied to other aspects of management and have become a key strategy in the hiring process. Program directors and human resources managers can use this resource in establishing personnel policies for selecting and hiring new staff. This article explores competency-based hiring and how organizations can best use this technique in the hiring process.