Episode Twenty-Three - PBS Recruitment Challenges

Guest - Dr Tia martin:
Tia is the co-founding director of PBS UK, who have been incorporated for around 7.5 years. Her primary area of working is behaviour analysis in autism and learning disability. She did her PHD at Queen's University Belfast, on behavioural safety and teaching behavioural skills to young people with autism and intellectual disability.

In this episode, Tia, Paddy and Jo discuss a survey Tia recently ran regarding job application and recruitment within the field of behaviour support. Tia ran this survey as she wanted to understand what influences peoples decisions to apply for jobs as PBS practitioners, and what can organisations do anything differently to be more successful. She discusses what the survey looked like, the format, how she got it out there, and the of questions she asked. Tia talks about the themes she noticed in the responses from the survey, and what people consider when taking a roll. She then gives some general advice to recruiters, like: how you pitch your job advert, realistic salaries, etc. Finally, Tia offers advice to the people who are going for jobs.