How Amarillo ISD Uses Spark Hire To Save $91,000 Per Year

With the help of Spark Hire, we’ve offered hundreds of applicants the ability to interview online. Most of our interviews are viewed by multiple viewers, sometimes by as many as 11 different people.

Before we used Spark Hire, the scheduling, seat time and man hours away from campus would have cost the district upwards of 2,400 man hours with a cost of close to $103,000.

Since using Spark Hire, the district estimates that it only spends 8 minutes per interview which has resulted in their man hours being cut to 270 hours or $12,000 which is a savings of $91,000 per year.

Many of our positions are posted with a video interview as the initial step. It has drastically diminished the time spent from interview to hire. Now we don’t have to spend countless hours speaking to each applicant on the phone in order to decide if we want to move forward with them.

Our hiring team is made up of educators from our district. Once we showed them how many less hours they would spend away from campus, they were on board. Not only is our team now able to spend more time with their students, but Spark Hire even works with their busy schedules. They can now view the candidate interviews from any location, at any time that is convenient for them.

The added bonuses are that it is very easy to use for both our candidates and district users, but also how affordable it is. Being a school district, we have to work with a tight budget.

Once they see the savings of time and resources, it is an easy switch.

We also now use Spark Hire as our interview tool for our Intra-district Transfer Fair process. We feel the video interviews help ensure transparency so every candidate gets a fair shot.

Spark Hire truly gives us flexible options for both interview parameters and viewing of the interviews. We no longer have to bring in substitute teachers for days at time to accommodate a long interview process.

I like that I can watch the videos anywhere and the parameters are flexible.

Also, most candidates have the ability to complete the process with ease. Spark Hire is really easy for the entire team and also the end users because it is such an intuitive platform.

Flexible, Efficient, Friendly