Best Practices: Recruitment, Staff Development and EEO/AA/Diversity Awareness

Objectives

• To improve staff recruitment and retention strategies
• To provide staff training and development opportunities
• To increase promotional opportunities
• To increase diversity in the workforce

Strategies for Supervisors and Human Resources Contacts

• Compose a Recruitment Plan for each job opportunity
• Develop effective marketing materials and strategies
• Network on and off campus by attending key meetings and conferences
• Make announcements at Department Chair and Academic Business Administrator (ABA) meetings
• Communicate opportunities to key campus groups, such as the Staff Association and Alumni Association
• Widely advertise using local, regional or national publications depending on your target pool
• Send job announcement notices to other institutions, professional groups and targeted list-serves
• Personally contact existing employees to inform them of job openings
• Subscribe to professional organization newsletters and advertise in their publications
• Form department search committees with diverse membership
• Expand the search if the applicant pool is not sufficiently diverse
• Showcase your department at community outreach fairs and special events
• Make reminders to supervisors as part of performance appraisal process regarding responsibilities related to UCSD Standards

Develop Web Based Resources and Links

• List relevant professional associations and organizations by discipline
• Identify career development resources (internal and external to UCSD)
• Post UCSD Workforce Statistics and Goals
• Identify Academic Affairs Good Faith Efforts
• Familiarize yourself with relevant University Policies

Referrals and Campus Resources

• Community Outreach Fairs
• Career Connection
• Promotion Project
• Management Skills Assessment Program
• SEOEP – Scholarship funds for career development courses
• ESPP Career Services Department
• Staff Education and Development