Hire reliable early childhood staff — and only pay when you do.
HireK12 helps daycares, preschools, and early learning centers recruit lead teachers, assistants, and aides. We market your center to active and passive candidates, run background and safety screening, pre-vet them on video, and hand off ready-to-work hires so you stay in ratio and licensed. No retainers. No placement fees. You pay when a hire signs.
- Lead teachers, assistants & aides
- Background-checked & safety-screened
- Stay in ratio and licensed
- Only pay when a hire signs
You only pay when a candidate is hired.
Every role your center needs to fill.
Lead teachers, assistant teachers, and aides — plus the support staff that keep your center running and licensed.
Educators who change classrooms.
- Classroom teachers (all grades & subjects)
- Special education & ESL
- Substitute teachers
- Instructional coaches
- Counselors & school psychologists
The staff who keep schools running.
- Paraprofessionals & classroom aides
- Bus drivers & transportation
- Food service & nutrition
- Custodial & facilities
- Office, admin & IT operations
Keep every room open, staffed, and in ratio.
Turnover and ratio rules make early childhood hiring relentless. We keep a vetted pipeline flowing so you never close a room for lack of staff.
Beat chronic turnover
Early childhood roles turn over fast. Always-on marketing keeps a pipeline of candidates ready so an open room never stays empty for long.
Stay in ratio
Understaffing means closed rooms and lost tuition. We fill lead teacher, assistant, and aide roles fast so you keep required child-to-staff ratios.
Safety screening first
Background checks, references, and reliability are vetted before the handoff — essential for staff trusted with infants and young children.
Early childhood credentials
We target candidates with the CDA, early childhood coursework, and experience your center and state licensing require.
A proven path from posting to hired.
One marketing-driven process that attracts, nurtures, and qualifies candidates for every role.
We market your open roles
Targeted campaigns on job boards and social reach both active and passive candidates where they already are.
Branded microsites tell your story
Custom landing pages showcase your district culture, benefits, and opportunities to build real connection.
We screen, interview & pre-vet
Our team runs an early screening interview and a recorded video interview, so only qualified candidates ever reach you.
We schedule, negotiate & hand off
We coordinate interview scheduling and, when your district needs it, support salary negotiation — then hand off candidates into your ATS, with permanent, contract, or temp-to-hire options to fit your timeline.
You only pay when you hire.
Most staffing agencies charge retainers and steep placement fees whether you hire or not. HireK12 carries the risk — if we don't deliver a hire, you don't pay.
$0 upfront
Start filling roles with zero cost to launch a campaign.
No retainers or placement fees
No long contracts and none of the 20–25% agency placement fees.
Pay only on a signed hire
You pay when a candidate accepts and signs — not before.
Trusted by early learning directors.
See how daycares and preschools keep rooms staffed and in ratio with HireK12.
“We were closing rooms because we couldn't find staff. HireK12 keeps a pipeline of vetted candidates flowing so we stay open and in ratio.”
“Background screening is non-negotiable with infants. HireK12 handles it up front, so I only ever meet candidates I can already trust.”
“They actually understand early childhood — every candidate had real experience and the right credentials. Hiring is finally manageable.”
Join daycares and early learning centers hiring smarter with HireK12.
Childcare hiring, answered.
The questions center directors ask most before they bring HireK12 in.
How does HireK12 help daycares and early learning centers hire?
We run targeted marketing campaigns to reach active and passive early childhood candidates, nurture them through a branded microsite about your center, then screen and pre-vet them with an early screening interview and a recorded video interview. We coordinate interview scheduling and hand off background-checked, ready-to-work candidates — so you keep rooms open and in ratio.
What childcare roles can you fill?
Lead teachers, assistant teachers, classroom aides, and center support staff. We target candidates with the CDA, early childhood education coursework, and experience your licensing requires.
Do you run background checks and safety screening?
Yes. Background checks, reference verification, and reliability screening happen before the handoff — critical for staff trusted with infants and young children — so you only interview safe, vetted candidates.
Can you fill roles fast enough to keep us in ratio?
That's the point. Our marketing-driven pipeline and roughly halved time-to-hire keep candidates flowing, and temp-to-hire options let you cover a room now and convert to a permanent hire when you're ready.
What does it cost, and when do we pay?
There are no retainers and no agency-style placement fees. You only pay when a candidate accepts and signs an offer — zero cost to launch a campaign.
Ready to end your staffing shortages?
Tell us about your hiring needs and we'll show you how HireK12 fills your teaching and non-teaching roles — with zero cost until you hire.
- $0 upfront — pay only when you hire
- Teaching & non-teaching roles
- Pre-vetted, video-screened candidates