Gone are the days when a county school district – Hamilton County, for instance – could advertise in various publications for a new schools superintendent and believe it would reap the country’s best candidates.
It’s a far more strategic process, Kenneth Carrick Jr., president and managing director of Coleman Lew and Associates, told members of the Hamilton County Board of Education at their work session Thursday afternoon.
So, he said, “we want to take some of this grunt work off you, and get you good candidates.”
Ideally, any county would want the best qualified candidate to be hired at the lowest possible salary and be effective for the longest number of years. But good luck with that metric.
That’s why the board agreed to pay Coleman Lew some $60,000 to help conduct the search.