Episode 20
š« Two school Heads, what do they look for in Admissions and Marketing staff? All that and much more.
#20 -Welcome back to āIād Rather be at the Beachā, brought to you by The Bonjour Agency. This is the podcast for school marketing people thatās nothing to do with work or school marketing.
Iām Simon, former marketing manager turned owner of The Bonjour Agency, the place for Admissions and Marketing in school. In each episode I speak to someone in the sector who wonāt talk about work but we get to find out more about them as a person.
Now in this episode weāre speaking to two people, in fact two Heads. Kathryn Gorman is the Head of Abbotās Hill School in Hemel Hempstead and we have Katherine Bluck, Head of Prep and also at Abbotās Hill.
Now we donāt talk about work, thereās no sales pitch involved about the 76 acres of grounds at the school but we do find out briefly how each of them views marketing in the independent schools sector in 2022 and 2023, where they think itās going and what they look for when recruiting someone into the team. Thatās as close as we get to work and we only discuss that because I thought it might help you personally if youāre thinking of looking for another position in the near future.
But we also talk about their backgrounds, I challenge them on SLT members in schools often being Oxbridge educated, we find out what they do at weekends and also what theyāve enjoyed recently for pure leisure time.
Thatās all coming up in this episode of Iād Rather be at the Beach, so come with me now as we scoot along the M25 to Hemel Hempstead and speak to the Heads at Abbotās Hill School, itās Kathryn and Katherine!
Kathryn Gorman:
linkedin.com/in/kathryn-gorman-85145a93
Katherine Bluck:
linkedin.com/in/katherine-b-543796139
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