WPCSS spends $125,000 to search for a Superintendent !!!??

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Originally Posted by nc99

I think it has become a "standard" practice to spend money to recruit! Now with internet/email/iphone etc, it is not hard to find a good replacement without spending well over 100 K

You need to understand that a superintendent search is an insider game where the head hunter knows and recruits specific folks who don't want it know they are looking for a new job. The head hunter knows who is looking to move UPWARD in prestige of district and salary. Advertising on line will get you superintendents who have been fired and assistant superintendents looking for a promotion. It will probably not get you top candidates. This way the process is done behind closed doors and if a candidate drops out you won't even know who they were unless they had been announced as a finalist. You may not like the process and many don't but boards of education who are charged with finding a new superintendent usually do in larger districts.

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Landing the chief: superintendent headhunters match positions and candidates. - Free Online Library



If not familiar with the process you might find the article enlightening.

[PDXmom]

I don't remember the exact amount that Durham ended up paying recently for their Super search, but it seems it was around that amount. Initially when the BOE (DPS) were getting bids from national search companies who specialize in super searches, the other bids were like 400K or something crazy like that.

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Originally Posted by PDXmom

I don't remember the exact amount that Durham ended up paying recently for their Super search, but it seems it was around that amount. Initially when the BOE (DPS) were getting bids from national search companies who specialize in super searches, the other bids were like 400K or something crazy like that.

There is a lot of back scratching involved in all of this and sometimes overlap between head hunters functioning as head hunters and at other times as consultants.