Case Study: BestStart eases teacher shortage with JobAdder

Supporting BestStart during the NZ teacher shortage

BestStart, New Zealand’s largest early childhood education provider, was struggling with a severe teacher shortage, rising time-to-fill, and constant recruitment churn across 270+ centres and 1,500 casual staff. To keep up with rapid growth and new centre openings, the team needed a more intuitive, integrated applicant tracking system than their basic legacy platform. JobAdder was chosen to better support their high-volume hiring needs and increasingly complex recruitment process.

With JobAdder, BestStart streamlined recruitment, gave hiring managers a more flexible role in the process, and gained stronger reporting, visibility, and integrations through an open API and HelloSign onboarding. The team could quickly screen and reject large applicant volumes, reduce admin time, and manage the entire onboarding process paperlessly. According to BestStart, JobAdder improved collaboration and candidate experience while helping them respond faster to vacancies and support ongoing growth.

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Amy Wilkins

HR Manager