Support Staff Recruitment

New Hire Orientation

Frederick County Public Schools is delighted to welcome our support staff with a specially tailored New Hire Orientation.

FCPS provides two different models of orientation for support staff:

► New Hire Orientation: This orientation is designed for all new support staff members (excluding our daily substitutes). This orientation includes a core hour of learning about FCPS leadership, policies, vision, values and more! After this core hour, we separate into breakout groups specially tailored for our employee groups.

► Substitute New Hire Orientation: This orientation is designed specifically for our daily substitutes. This day-long session allows for us to deep-dive into topics like classroom management, special education supports and much more with our Substitutes. See our Substitute New Hire Orientation Agenda.

If you have any questions about how to access or sign up for these orientation sessions as a new employee, please do not hesitate to reach out to one of the members of the Support Talent Acquisition and Relations team:

FCPS Hiring Timeline for Support Staff

  1. 3-5 days: New application is screened by an FCPS personnel officer
  2. 7 days: Candidates are notified to sign up for an initial interview
  3. 1-2 days: Approved candidates are placed in a "Candidate Pipeline" online folder for hiring managers to access
  4. 1-2 days: Candidates in the "Candidate Pipeline" will be sent a 611-3 form for completion
  5. Ongoing: Once positions become available, a hiring manager reviews, selects, and contacts candidates to interview
  6. 5-10 days: Hiring managers hold interviews and select a candidate
  7. Ongoing: Hiring managers contact the HR personnel officer to recommend the selected candidate for hire
  8. 3 days: Personnel Officer works out the salary and confirms references and 611-3 forms are completed
  9. 3-5 days: HR makes an offer to the candidate
  10. * 2-3 days: Candidate accepts the offer and HR sends a new hire email to the hiring manager

*Once an offer has been accepted, there are 3 additional steps:

  1. HR sends email to new hire to select dates to take new hire orientation and have fingerprints and badge photo taken. (Option 1: July - August, Option 2: during the school year, Tuesdays and Thursdays)
  2. 5 days: State sends fingerprint results back to FCPS
  3. 5 days: If hired after the start of the school year, HR confirms start date with new hire after verifying fingerprint results and badge has been printed