Hire people you trust with other people's children.
Schools, TAFEs, and universities face unique hiring pressure. Every role carries a duty of care. Assessely helps you hire thoroughly without drowning in paperwork.
Assessely is a smart HR platform for Australian education businesses that combines hiring assessments, reference checks with fraud detection, and employee retention surveys in one place.
THE CHALLENGE
The hiring and retention challenges education businesses face every day.
Compliance is non-negotiable
Working with Children Checks, VIT or TRBSA registration, mandatory qualifications. Missing one document puts students at risk and your organisation in breach. Manual tracking across spreadsheets is an accident waiting to happen.
Relief and casual staff turnover never stops
You onboard dozens of casual and relief teachers each term. Each one needs the same compliance checks as permanent staff, but your HR team is already stretched thin and the start of term is unforgiving.
Good teachers are leaving the profession
Burnout, workload, and feeling undervalued are pushing experienced educators out. If you do not know why staff are leaving, you cannot fix it. Anecdotes in the staff room are not enough.
THE SOLUTION
How Assessely solves it.
Role-specific assessments for educators
Assess classroom management, curriculum knowledge, and student welfare awareness. Not a generic skills test. Built for teaching, support, and leadership roles.
Automated reference checks with fraud detection
Collect references from previous schools and department heads. AI flags inconsistencies so you can trust what referees say.
WWCC, VIT and qualification tracking
Working with Children Checks, VIT or TRBSA registration, qualifications collected and tracked digitally with expiry reminders. Know exactly who is cleared and who is not.
Staff wellbeing surveys
Regular pulse surveys designed for school environments. Understand workload concerns, leadership support, and staff morale before problems escalate.
eNPS for education teams
Track staff loyalty across departments, campuses, or faculties. Spot disengagement early so you can act before resignations land.
Exit interviews for departing staff
Find out whether teachers are leaving for pay, workload, leadership, or career change. Data you can act on, not just anecdotes in the staffroom.
IN THEIR WORDS
What education teams say.
Real moments from people using Assessely in small and medium-sized businesses today.
P-12 independent school, 30 to 40 relief teachers a year. WWCC, VIT rego, qualification checks. The spreadsheet broke us in 2024. Our business manager used to essentially go on personal leave for a fortnight every January just keeping it together. She doesn't anymore.
Catherine M.
Business Manager, independent school
Wollongong, NSW
Wellbeing pulse for staff has been the most useful thing we've added in five years. Second week of term last year the survey told us the new timetable was 80% of the stress. Adjusted it for term two. Morale lifted. Board now asks for the data at every meeting.
Peter A.
Principal, regional secondary college
Bendigo, VIC
Three separate systems and a spreadsheet nobody understood. Now it's one place. Bit of a relief honestly.
Helena F.
Director of People, independent school
Sydney
HOW IT WORKS
Up and running in minutes.
Screen candidates with care
Role-specific assessments and automated reference checks ensure every candidate meets your standards before they step into a classroom.
Stay on top of compliance
Digital document collection and tracking for WWCC, VIT, qualifications, and contracts. Nothing slips through the cracks.
Understand and retain your staff
Pulse surveys, eNPS, and exit interviews give you the data to address burnout and keep your best educators.
QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions.
Quick answers for education teams considering Assessely.
Assessely runs on AWS with encryption at rest and in transit. Important for schools subject to state and territory privacy obligations.
Yes. WWCC, VIT or TRBSA, NESA, mandatory qualifications, First Aid, anaphylaxis, and any other certificate is tracked centrally with expiry reminders 60 days out. Audit-ready every day, not just at registration audit.
Candidate names and demographic details are stripped before any AI evaluation. The system scores against your published role criteria. Human selection panels always make the final call and can override any AI output.
Premium is $199 a month for full features. Reference checks $1 per referee, compliance and WWCC checks $1 each. Most independent schools running 30 to 40 relief and permanent hires a year sit comfortably under $400 a month.
Most schools are running their first reference check within the first week. Migrating staff compliance records from spreadsheets typically takes a day or two with our team supporting.
Yes. Relief teacher onboarding is one of the most common use cases. Send a single link, the teacher completes WWCC, qualifications, and induction in their own time, and they are cleared before they walk in on day one.
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