Use Tulip Canada to Recruit and Retain a Qualified Education Team

Using a recruitment firm to identify and screen potential teachers and education administrators has its benefits. It equates to both short and long term savings in time and money.  Ultimately, it supports the delivery of quality education and enhances the performance of a school or post secondary institution.

Tulip Canada recruits a high calibre of candidates across Canada.  Our business partners  can select the most seasoned of teaching professionals to recent graduates with their teaching certification eager to begin their career.   They have a passion to teach and it shows in their instruction, classroom curriculum, and participation in school and community activities.

Aligning knowledge and skill with education and performance makes good business.  Tulip Canada is here to help!

Provision of  Valuable Advice

Tulip Canada has a pulse on industry and market trends to advise our business partners accordingly.   We offer insight with salary benchmarks, which can be helpful during the negotiations of offers made to ideal candidates.  We guide business partners on additional advertising options if and when the need arises.

Expansion of Potential Candidates 

Tulip Canada invests time into its people – be it candidates, or business partners in the international education community.

We build positive relationships with our candidates and business partners. Our role is to bridge the

gap between the industry, and help identify both active and passive job seekers with qualified skills, and experience to meet job requirements of vacancies from our business partners.

Knowing the needs of our business partners makes the job easier to identify, screen and negotiate employment arrangements.  We have samples of lesson plans. We can coordinate police checks to ensure the health and safety of students.

Communications is key to clarify roles, manage expectations, and realize goals as well as supporting candidates as they make life decisions to relocate to a new city, country or continent. Tulip Canada is there! Every step of the process and every step of the relocation as teaching professionals embark on an life adventure – to teach, learn and explore.    We work with our business partners to guide supportive resources to help retain teaching professionals for continuity within the team and classroom.

Elimination of Additional Resources

The financial and human resources used to advertise, interview, screen, and manage the process of potential candidates for a vacancy is extensive.   We eliminate the need for additional human and financial resources to our business partners.   We minimize the disruption to daily administrative and education programs as we manage the screening and interviewing process as well offer s short list of potential candidates for vacancies.  Ultimately, the cost savings of using Tulip Canada can be re-invested to the institution and support refinements to marketing communications, employee relations, education programs,  operation functions, and student activities.

We offer guarantee periods with some rebates, depending on the need, timelines, and frequency of service. Tulip Canada is a good value. It makes good business. 

Reduction of Time

Tulip Canada streamlines the process of finding the right education professional.  We will provide a short list of candidates tailored to the needs of our business partners, outlining qualifications and experience along with a summary of  the personal attributes of the candidate and recommendations on their ability to adjust to the culture dynamics and culture fit is a compliment to the team.   A review of a short list of ideal resumes to a stack of hundreds if not thousands is far more beneficial to time and program management.  Outsourcing such an important task to Tulip Canada makes good business.

We make the interview and screening process made simple. Tulip Canada contacts and  screens potential candidates while compiling personal and professional information to support easy transition for immigration guidelines, orientation and training, and settlement and integration. Short listed candidates are the top education professionals who match the qualifications and experience criteria.   Tulip Canada stands by its recommendations to serve their partners well, and to maintain a high standard of professionalism and creditability in the marketplace.

Our seasonality grants us an understanding of work environments; culture characteristics and support programs needed for long-term continuity and success for our business partners and candidates. The reduction of time and risk saves money, and resources for immigration procedures, travel, and housing and orientation activities.

We are educating the world through Canadians connections.

We value your trust in Tulip Canada.   Thank you for the opportunity of making a difference to the lives of people, and hopefully, make the world a better place from across the continents, seas, and oceans.

Lori Ann Comeau is a career coach for the education profession, founder and president of Tulip Canada.  For advice on filling an employment role, please contact her at lorianncomeau@tulipca.ca, or Submit a Job Spec Here.  Follow her on twitter at @tulipcanada and Facebook. 

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Attracting the Best Teaching Opportunities

As a recent graduate or a seasoned educator polishing your resume will support your efforts in attracting the best employment opportunities.

Teaching with Passion


“A passion to teach is vital.  It illustrates a commitment to education in an environment which engages students to learn,” says Lori Ann Comeau, founder and president of Tulip Canada, a human capital investment and recruitment firm which bridges relationships between Canadian teachers and educators with accredited schools around the global.  Focus on your teaching philosophy in your resume profile.  Share teaching values, and experience based achievements.  “Teachers need to be in the profession for the right reasons --  to nurture the full potential of their students with a healthy and positive teaching approach”.

Selling Credentials and Certifications

A selling feature is your academic credentials and certifications.  Profile them on the first page of your resume following your career profile.

Using Keywords

In today’s world of fast pace technology and telecommunications, teachers need to use industry specific terms and jargon in their resume.  “Attraction of the best opportunities is dependent on the use of these keywords,” says Comeau. She adds, “these keywords sort and prioritize the ideal candidates for the opportunity”.

There should never be assumptions on a resume.  Identify and spell out the keywords specific in the teaching profession and education industry such as:

teaching and learning, curriculum development, curriculum planning, curriculum design, creative lesson planning, in-service leadership, peer tutoring, peer mentoring, lead teacher, teacher-parent relations, special needs students, gifted/talented students, ESL/ESOL students, student success, standardized testing, learner assessment, technology integration, classroom management, classroom monitoring, discipline strategies, student involvement, parental involvement, instruction, teaching across the curriculum, interdisciplinary teaching approaches, K-12, mainstream, and inclusion, knowledge learning.

Highlighting Achievements

Our careers are an infinite amount of events, however, we must be in a position to focus on the accomplishments of each experience, or teaching adventure”, says Comeau. “It supports the resume profile, and professional traits of a passionate, experienced educator and most of all, keeps the resume reader, wanting to learn more about you,” adds Comeau.

Recent graduates can use your practicum experience as the basis of the start of your teaching career, adding evaluations and classroom observations.

As you build your achievement section of your resume, explore and identify career milestones consider have you:

• designed and delivered any after school programs or extracurricular activities?  It helps identify your strength to support student needs.
• a teaching specialty? It shares your teaching methods, which  differentiates you from other candidates.
• incorporated technological resources to promote learning across your curriculum? Provide examples as well as results.
• taught in gifted/talented, special needs, youth at risk or English as a Second Language, or any other segmented population?
• increase the average student score for provincial standardization tests (by how much)?  It highlights your commitment to teach, and explore opportunities to improve not only for your students but the overall success of the school.
• been asked to serve as a mentor or peer tutor to new teachers?
• delivered training workshops to help your colleagues? Be sure to highlight the topics.
• designed creative curriculum or lessons, which were, adapted as best practices for the school, district or Board?  What were these best practices?  How did these best practice models improve the delivery of education, and what was the performance before the best practices were implemented?
• been asked to serve as a mentor or peer tutor to new teachers?
• explored opportunities continue your education, or keep yourself current in the teaching profession? This shares your commitment to self-improvement, and dedication classroom delivery.
• increase parent or community engagement your school?  What outreach programs have you undertaken to be success in parental/community participation?

Lori Ann Comeau is a career coach for the education profession, founder and president of Tulip Canada.  More career advice and teaching opportunities can be directed to your email inbox.  Email at lorianncomeau@tulipca.ca; follow her on twitter at @tulipcanada.

A Polish Diamond Shines

Building a Resume Takes Time

In search for the next teaching adventure the profile needs to tell a story –your story. The story draws attention to the diamonds hiding in your resume.  Lori Ann Comeau shares insight on how to write a resume for greatest impact, or radiant a shine in which gets you on an airplane to teach, learn and explore in a new land.

First impressions are lasting, and the profile is the first step to making the impression.  

Role of a Resume Profile

The profile presents an opportunity to share a story if you are presenting your resume in person. It draws attention to the things you want an employer to see – right away.  Most of all, it gives you the chance to tell the reader what to notice first in your career adventure, experience and skill development. 

The profile is the hardest part of your resume to write.  Leave it to the last task in writing or refining your resume. The body of the resume and its content reveals itself in order to summary the profile of you – your expertise, talents, and experience.

A resume spans a lifetime, which comprises of an infinite amount of events.  It is to consider these events, the most important ones as a means to share the best information about you, and writing your story.  It supports the diamond within you by building the anticipation through a series of bulletin points of skills, experience and qualifications.  The series of these events differs too.  A new graduate will focus more attention on skills and qualifications as they build their experience whereas, as a seasoned teacher will focus more attention on skills and experience.

Audience Determines Writing Style

A resume has to be clear, concise and effective.  Too many words, or too text heavy can hinder the shine of a resume as the reader gets bored and starts skipping information.   The best information about you may be lost!

A profile should be no more than five sentences.  It becomes too complicated.  Avoid descriptive, flowery words as well as general statements such as ‘self-motivated’, ‘team player’ and ‘punctual’.  These are basic traits of an employee.  If you want to stand above the crowd, or shine like a diamond use action words to describe you, your skills and work.  Write in the educated third person such as:

“Designed and delivered a lecture series to improve education performance, incorporating expert advice and examining successful programs to launch a best practice module”.

It’s a statement, which makes the storyteller jump from the page!  It engages the reader to want to learn more about – you!

Structure of a Resume Profile

Who are you professionally.  Focus on your qualifications and background. Who you are personally will reveal itself in your community service, volunteerism, awards and recognition.

What focuses on your skills and expertise.  What do you have to offer?

Where focuses on your sector or industry knowledge and experience.  Focus attention on the different organizations, workplaces, and environments. This supports the question, where do you wish your next adventure to take you?

How are going to reach your next career adventure?  Focus on the role; organization, culture and growth, which will help, take the leap to a new adventure.

When is a summary of your career and most importantly sets unwritten timelines for your next career adventure to begin.  It is the seasonality of life, and its lessons in growth and experience, which prepares us for the next adventure, or chapter in the storybook.  When do you wish yours to begin?

Lori Ann Comeau is a career coach for the education profession, Founder and President of Tulip Canada  More career advice and teaching opportunities can be directed to your email inbox.  Email at lorianncomeau@tulipca.ca; follow her on twitter at @tulipcanada.