By Sarah Heaslip sarah@britishboarding.com How to complete the Searchable fields on Connected Educational Agents By Sarah Heaslip sarah@britishboarding.com

Please check you have all of the SEARCHABLE fields filled in on your profile to ensure school staff can find your Company when they run searches on Connected On the next slides you can see how the search screen looks for schools, which fields are searchable and where you can find those fields in your profile to ensure you have filled them in.

EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANTS - Tabs In the document I will refer to the following as ‘tabs’ These tabs have drop down menus

How do schools find agents? This is the ‘Search’ facility for school staff to find agents. There are a number of ways they can search. I will refer to the ‘Search fields’ which are these

GENERAL Search Schools can do a general search by entering the organization’s name or part of the name (if they know it) Searches can be done with exact matches or partial matches (using the slider) The results in this search will come from: Words in the name of the company Any search terms you have added when creating your profile (see next slide on how to add)

GENERAL Search continued The search terms field is found in under ‘Company Info’ section on the ‘Company Overview’ page Any word appearing in the company name or the Search Terms boxes will appear in searches in the General Search box. Do include your city and country.

LOCATION Search Schools can search for company’s by location using the Country or Continent tabs which have a drop down The country field can be found on the ‘Company Overview’ page in the drop down under ‘The Company’ tab The continent is automatically allocated by the system once the country is filled in

RECRUITING FROM Search Schools can also search for agents based on the countries or continents they are recruiting from (rather than where the agent is located). You can add or edit the recruitment countries information via ‘The Company’ tab and on the ‘Company Overview’ page. Please ensure you have added the main recruitment country and all additional countries where you recruit from. The Continents are automatically filled in by the system once the countries are entered.

NO OF STUDENTS PLACED IN LAST ACADEMIC YEAR Search The schools can also search by the number of placements in the previous academic year The options they have in the drop down are:

NO OF STUDENTS PLACED IN LAST ACADEMIC YEAR Search To edit your number of placements, go to the ‘The Company’ tab and then select the ‘Company Overview’ page The information for this is added under ‘Number of students we placed in the last academic year’

SCHOOLS & PROGRAMMES OF INTEREST Search Schools can find agents by the types of schools and educational programmes in which the agents’ clients are interested. Eg girls’ schools or those which offer the IB (or a combination of both). The fields where this data should be entered is in ‘The Company’ tab on ‘Company Overview’ page.

Please take some time to ensure all of the other information about your company is complete too. The information which the schools use regularly are the following: The company description – describe your company activities and the company background. This really helps school staff when they are looking for potential partners. How we recruit students for British Boarding Schools – this helps school staff understand how you will recruit students for their school and if you run fairs they can attend. Finding Us – it saves a lot of tim when planning overseas trips if you can include details of how to find your office or a weblink or PDF with maps. These fields are all found in the ‘Company Overview’ page on ‘The Company’ tab.

We encourage you to add a photo and logo to enhance your profile (see next slide for where to add them).

You can add the photo and logo on the ‘Company Overview’ page in ‘The Company’ tab. You can also replace photos and logos at any time by removing them and then uploading the new ones.

If you need any assistance in updating your profile or using Connected, please do not hesitate to contact me.