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The ICEF North America Workshop - Toronto Engaging Relationships Best Practices in Sustainable Recruitment Partnerships

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With up to half of all international students using the professional services of an education agent, and private and public-sector use of external recruiters an established and growing trend, successful relationships between schools and their agent partners are key drivers in meeting institutional (and consequently national) recruitment targets - in number, diversity and quality of students. From mutual on-boarding methodologies to the shared flexibility required to jointly manage the student recruitment process, a successful relationship between schools and agents is ultimately built on shared values with respect to student welfare and success. ICEF Monitor addresses the foundations and cornerstones of agent-educator relationship management via a video interview with Uri Carnat, the Director of Client Relations and Business Development (Canada) for IDP Education. For the accompanying article ''Agency-Educator relationship management: from on-boarding to sustainable recruitment partnerships'', please see: http://bit.ly/1prCr0E. For more industry news, market intelligence, research and commentary for international student recruitment please visit http://www.icefmonitor.com, subscribe for daily or weekly updates, and follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/icefmonitor.

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The ICEF North America Workshop - Toronto

Engaging Relationships – Best Practices in Sustainable Recruitment Partnerships

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Engaging Relationships – Best Practices in Sustainable Recruitment Partnerships

Uri Carnat Director – Client Relations and Business Development (Canada)

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Topics

• Assumptions and premises • Brief Introduction to IDP • Contracts • On-boarding • Data processes • Communications • Sharing market data and support through geopolitical shifts

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Assumptions and Premises (I)

CASCADE OF THIS DISCUSSION • Recruitment partners (agents) play an important role in

international education • Good agents and good schools are motivated foremost by their

commitment to the well-being and success of their students • This commitment is best actualized when both parties

understand their roles • Students are best-served when expectations of student,

recruiter, and school are appropriately set and understood. • This is ensured by a successful relationship between

schools and agents

• How are these healthy relationships made and maintained?

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Assumptions and Premises (II)

YOU • Represent (for the most part) educational institutions

• Currently work with recruitment partners

• Know where to find them (ICEF)

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Assumptions and Premises (III)

THIS PRESENTATION • Not about research on why students use agents • Not data-driven on the use of agents around the world • Not measuring adoption trends in the public sector in Canada • Not about international standards-setting with respect to

working with agents • Experienced-based presentation on good relationship-building

practices based on time spent sitting on both sides of the ICEF table

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IDP places students in English-speaking destinations

SOURCE REGIONS Australasia South East Asia North Asia South Asia Middle East

COUNTRY DESTINATION Australia New Zealand USA Canada United Kingdom

Australasia

North Asia

South East Asia

South Asia

Middle East

Australia

New Zealand

United Kingdom

USA

Canada

IDP OFFICE LOCATIONS Australia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Cambodia China Egypt Germany Hong Kong Jordan India Indonesia Korea (South) Kuwait Libya Malaysia Mauritius New Caledonia Oman Philippines Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Turkey United Arab Emirates Vietnam

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IDP:IELTS runs English-language tests globally

IDP IELTS Locations Australia Argentina Bangladesh Cambodia Canada Colombia Fiji Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Kazakhstan Kenya Korea Kuwait Laos Libya Malaysia Mauritius Mexico Nepal Netherlands

New Caledonia New Zealand Oman Pakistan Papua New Guinea Philippines Qatar Russia Singapore Solomon Islands South Africa Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Timor Leste Tonga Ukraine United Arab Emirates United States of America Vanuatu Vietnam

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ew Guineaes

eIslandsica

•114 test centres and 200 test sites

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• In total, IDP and British Council manage 500+ test centres and 800 locations • 1.9 million tests in 2012

Global IELTS

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South-East Asian Language Schools

English Language Teaching

IDP runs leading English Language schools in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand

Over 10,000 students per year graduate from an IDP Language School

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IDP is one of the largest international education events companies

Events IDP runs over 150 educational events around the world and brings students and institutions together

IDP co-hosts the Australian International Education Conference (AIEC), a leading conference for international education professionals

IDP organises an international ESOL conference, CamTESOL, held annually in Cambodia

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IDP’s journey to understand the student experience

Outcomes and Impacts of

International Education:

International Student to Graduate (2008)

IDP Customer Value Analysis (2008)

IDP Brand Positioning Research (2009-10)

Buyer behaviour of active prospects,

current students and alumni (2009)

International Student Attitudes - One year

on from the 2009 Buyer Behaviour study

(2010)

IDP Student Buyer Behaviour across the

main English Speaking Destination Countries

(2012)

IDP Student Satisfaction

(every 6 months)

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Relationship Management: Contracts (I)

• Don’t define day-to-day relationships

• Result can be contracts that are treated with not enough seriousness

• Either signed without enough attention by both sides as to how the responsibilities will be fulfilled

• Or institutional contracts without flexibility or clarified institutional amendment pathways.

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Relationship Management: Contracts (II)

• Exclusivities

• Intellectual property clauses

• Amendment clauses

• Renewals process

• Affiliates and Sub-Agents

• Payment procedures

• Indemnifications and Liability limits

• Taking into account the different levels of exposure

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Relationship Management: On-boarding

UNDERSTAND • How your information is housed with your agent partner • How counsellors use and access this information? • Who from your institution is responsible for providing this

information • Demonstrations of the student-counsellor experience using

your information • What is the cyclical update process? • What is the ongoing verification system that your information

is being used accurately? • Alignment of recruiter and school orientations

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Relationship Management: Data Processing Cascade

Common Issues

• Manner in which applications are submitted

• Flexibility on both sides

• Provincial systems for public, post-secondary registrations

• Visibility on recruitment steps before students enrol

• Cancellations

• Systems for documenting cancellations – why and for whom?

• Privacy documents standards

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Relationship Management: Communications

• Have you defined an annual communication cycle for your

agencies? • Have they defined one for you? • Components include:

• Clarification of responsibilities within the institution • Program updates • Ongoing re-training

• Meeting schedules – virtual and in-person • In-country representation • Student-services feedback • Strong communications = strong relationships

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Relationship Management: Strategic Planning

• Part of the annual communication cycle

• Standardized for all partners

• Summary of the previous year’s work

• Future expectations

• Shared marketing plans

• Market information

• Financial-year planning cycles

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Relationship Management: Regional Issues and Geopolitical Shifts

• Series of opportunities and vulnerabilities

• Schools and agents are differently exposed

• Sharing emerging trends

• Program Interest

• Destination changes

• Emerging Destinations

• Steady Regional Issues: Hong Kong, Venezuela

• Shifts: Korea, Libya, India, Taiwan

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Summary

• Value or need in using recruitment partners

• Shared values with respect to student welfare and success

• This relationship has a life-cycle, both linear and circular

• Some key stages – contracts, on-boarding, data-processes,

communications, and the sharing of market data

• Relationships as time-intensive investments

• Benefits shared by all, especially and ultimately our students

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Engaging Relationships – Best Practices in Sustainable Recruitment Partnerships

Uri Carnat Director – Client Relations and Business Development (Canada)