Episode 20

šŸ« Two school Heads, what do they look for in Admissions and Marketing staff? All that and much more.

Published on: 9th December, 2022

#20 -Welcome back to ā€˜Iā€™d Rather be at the Beachā€™, brought to you by The Bonjour Agency. This is the podcast for school marketing people thatā€™s nothing to do with work or school marketing.

Iā€™m 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 wonā€™t talk about work but we get to find out more about them as a person.

Now in this episode weā€™re speaking to two people, in fact two Heads. Kathryn Gorman is the Head of Abbotā€™s Hill School in Hemel Hempstead and we have Katherine Bluck, Head of Prep and also at Abbotā€™s Hill.

Now we donā€™t talk about work, thereā€™s 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 itā€™s going and what they look for when recruiting someone into the team. Thatā€™s as close as we get to work and we only discuss that because I thought it might help you personally if youā€™re 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 theyā€™ve enjoyed recently for pure leisure time.

Thatā€™s all coming up in this episode of Iā€™d 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 Abbotā€™s Hill School, itā€™s Kathryn and Katherine!

Kathryn Gorman:

linkedin.com/in/kathryn-gorman-85145a93

Katherine Bluck:

linkedin.com/in/katherine-b-543796139

Main website:

www.thebonjouragency.com

Contact me:

simon@thebonjouragency.com

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I'd Rather be at the Beach
Welcome to I'd Rather be at the Beach, the podcast for school marketing managers that's *not* about school marketing management. Instead we talk about everything else that school marketing managers spend their time doing. Their families, their hobbies, the previous jobs they've had, the music they're into, the books they're reading and the holidays they've been on. This is the podcast for you if you're a school marketing manager who likes your job, you might even love your job. But you'd rather be at the beach.

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