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When Fraser joined Smile Education, he already had several years of recruitment experience behind him - but he was looking for something specific - not just another agency! In this interview, Fraser shared what led him to Smile, how he’s grown since joining, and why being yourself is one of the most important parts of building a successful recruitment career.

Learn more about working at Smile Education from one of our longest-standing and most successful consultants – Emma. We sat down with Emma, our Senior Director, to chat through her career journey, her “day in the life” and some top tips on managing a thriving desk at Smile.

Want to know more about how Smile Education from the very beginning? You’re in luck. We sat down with Smile’s Founder and Managing Director, Katy Rees, to chat through her career journey and the story of Smile.

From joining us as a graduate in 2015, Kash’s career has flourished, so much so that he’s now leading our newest regional division in the North West. We spoke to Kash to find out exactly how he did it, as well as talk about some of the advice he’d give to someone looking to enter the world of recruitment.

Smile Education is proud to be partnered with Endeavour Multi Academy Trust as their Managed Service Provider for recruitment. We’re committed to supporting schools and Multi Academy Trusts to provide the very best teachers and school staff, ensuring students have access to the best standard of education possible. This partnership reflects this commitment, and we’re so proud to be partnering with such an incredible trust. 

Have you recently graduated? If you’re looking for a career in education or want to take the first step into your teaching career, an education recruitment agency like Smile Education can support you. 

The team at Smile are immensely proud to play a role in the career journeys of school staff across the UK. We’ve had the honour of welcoming so many talented individuals into their first school role, with the bonus of watching their career flourish over the years.

Cover Supervisor roles aren’t just for graduates. If you’re after a change of scenery and have experience working with children and young people, this varied and rewarding role might just be the making of your career.

I’m Rosie, the SEN consultant for the East Midlands. I’m a 360 consultant, so I do both the client and candidate side of things, including business development, sourcing candidates, interviewing candidates, and more.

Since joining us in October 2023, Ellie has achieved two promotions and is on track for a massively successful future at Smile Education.

We sat down with her to learn more about what led her to change career paths and enter the world of recruitment, and some of the advice she’d offer those who are looking to join the industry.

Meet Olivia, who started Smile Education as a graduate in 2013. Since then, she has gone on to achieve promotion after promotion.

Working in education means we deal with a variety of different people every day and are passionate about promoting and celebrating diversity. This is why we couldn't help but get involved with LGBTQIA+ History Month. 

Our team enjoyed taking part in Brew Monday an initiative Samaritans to encourage us all to connect.

We asked our Compliance Administrator, Georgia, to give us (and you) an insight into her day and the role of a compliance administrator in recruitment.

Kash talks about his career journey at Smile Education and looks back at how far he has come.

Recruitment is a ‘boy’s club’ they say. Well, we are proof that that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Think there are no similarities between working for Smile Education and being the Qeen (or King) or England. Think again! 

Priya started her career in recruitment and joined the Smile team just under two months ago but she’s already the very proud winner of our monthly special achievement award.

We asked Louise, our Compliance Team Leader, to give us an insight into life at Smile and what it’s like to work for a company that doesn’t just value results.

We are in a great position to have not one, but two experienced and qualified Tutors who can deliver these skills to those in need. Here Louise, one of our Team Teach Tutors (and our Compliance Team Leader) talks about the Team Teach course, why it’s important, who should do it and what she likes about it.

Katy our MD, who is safer recruitment trained, run a training session recently to ensure that our new recruits were up to speed. Here is what they had they learnt during their training, how the impact it has had on their work and why they believe safer recruitment training is important for all those recruiting in the education sector.

Up-skilling is something that we really believe in and we are always looking for new ways to support our team with their personal development. But it’s not all recruitment-based learning. Beth, part of our candidate team, had the chance earlier this year to gain a first aid qualification and became one of our nominated workplace first aiders - more on this (from Beth’s point of view) in a click.

It’s important to us that our team continue learning and developing during their time with us. While we offer lots of training through recruitment networks like the TRN, we also give our team the opportunity to develop their persona skills too. Olivia, our secondary team leader, recently attended a training course and became a mental health first aider so she could better support her team.

How Vicky, part of our candidate care team, used her time in lockdown wisely.

Nasriin joined us a year ago. Learn more about her experience working at Smile. 

Georgia, our lovely compliance administrator, talks about her journey with Smile so far and what it was like starting a new job just as the pandemic hit.

Its our month! National Smile month that is, here we tell you 100 things that make us smile, our favourite things are much needed in these challenging times.

Valentine’s Day has us feeling all warm and fuzzy and got us thinking about the many reasons why we love working in education recruitment (nothing to do with it being half-term tomorrow, of course). Anyway, these are the 10 reasons that we love working in education recruitment.

To show our commitment to mental health we took part in Time to Talk Day.

We recently opened up our new, second office in Cannock and while we’ll always love working in Birmingham, Cannock does hold a special place in our hearts. Here are the reasons why we love working in Cannock.

The team shared their favourite books from now and back then in honour of National Reading Day.

Our head office is based in Birmingham city centre and has been for over 10 years now. As such we’ve really grown to love the place and all it has to offer. These are the 10 reasons why…

Priya, a graduate from De Montfort University, talks about what she learnt from her internship with Smile.

‘Tis the season for Christmas jumper wearing and today we donned our festive knits to help raise money for St. Mary’s Hospice Birmingham.

It's all getting very festive in the Smile office and starting to look and feel like Christmas.

We'd like to give a very warm welcome to Laura, who recently joined us as our Director of Leadership. The role will see Laura work alongside our school supply team and place headteachers and other school leaders in roles across the Midlands.

The team at Smile is made up of consultants and compliance admins. While our consultants work hard to find you work, it’s our compliance admins who make sure that you are able to work. Get to know Conor, our Senior Compliance Administrator, a little better and find out what his day is like.

Emma, our Director, previously worked abroad as a holiday rep before joining Smile. This is her story and why she thinks that those who have repped make great recruitment consultants. 

Recruitment companies often have a bad reputation but not all of them deserve it. Katy, MD of Smile, talks about the values which Smile has that makes Smile different than the rest.

We recently signed the Time to Change to show our commitment to mental health in the workplace.