Inclusive Hiring Best Practices: Removing Barriers and Mitigating Search Committee Bias

Last updated March 18, 2024

Course Length

1h 56m

Last Updated

March 18, 2024

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Inclusive Hiring Best Practices: Removing Barriers and Mitigating Search Committee Bias

Last updated March 18, 2024

Table of Contents

Lesson 1: Getting Started
Speaker & Topic Introduction
5:43 Closed lock icon
Selecting Members of the Search Committee
13:20 Closed lock icon
Job Description Review Process
6:24 Closed lock icon
Mitigating Barriers for Your Candidate Pool
4:34 Closed lock icon
Lesson 2: Candidate Recruitment
Developing Committee Consensus and Writing the Advertisement
4:01 Closed lock icon
Revisiting Common Hiring Practices
4:46 Closed lock icon
Best Practices for Pool Development
3:24 Closed lock icon
Posting the Job Ad
2:11 Closed lock icon
Coordinating Outreach
3:44 Closed lock icon
Lesson 3: Preliminary Candidate Selection
Personal Biases and their Influence in the Search Process
7:24 Closed lock icon
Setting Ground Rules to Mitigate Bias
2:51 Closed lock icon
Diversity Statements
2:21 Closed lock icon
Evaluating Candidates
3:51 Closed lock icon
Initial Screening Interviews
3:44 Closed lock icon
Lesson 4: Formal Interview
Scheduling Considerations for On-Site Interviews
6:42 Closed lock icon
Plan for Consistent Interview Questions and Interview Day Experience
8:11 Closed lock icon
Internal Candidate Considerations
2:09 Closed lock icon
Feedback for Candidates
1:05 Closed lock icon
Search Firms
1:57 Closed lock icon
Search Advocates
1:56 Closed lock icon
Lesson 5: Final Assessments, Hiring, and Onboarding
Candidate Reference Checks and Background Checks
12:23 Closed lock icon
Final Candidate Recommendations for Hire
3:02 Closed lock icon
Best Practices to Memorialize Your Search Process
3:14 Closed lock icon
Onboarding New Hires
5:05 Closed lock icon
Closing Remarks
1:58 Closed lock icon

Train your faculty and staff search committee members on foundational best practices for inclusive hiring.

Overview

As campuses work more efficiently to recruit and retain candidates, it is imperative that your faculty and staff search committees have an ongoing process in order to review and refine their current hiring practices with an eye toward mitigating bias and removing barriers to inclusivity. This 5-part video series was created to help members of your search committees with managing the following stages of the search process:

  1. Getting Started, and Establishing Your Search Committee
  2. Recruiting Candidates
  3. Selecting Preliminary Candidates
  4. Extending and Conducting Formal Interviews
  5. Managing Final Assessments and Recommendations for Hire
  6. Onboarding New Hires

How should I use this resource?

This course has been specifically designed as a foundational training session to help bring search committee members up to speed on inclusive hiring practices. Each lesson is no more than 30 minutes in length, so we recommend assigning specific applicable segments of the course to your search committee members over a defined period of time. To encourage further conversation and application, we also recommend following up each segment with real-time discussion among your search committee members. Each person participating can record their notes in the five-page downloadable workbook that accompanies the course and then bring them to the group conversation to ensure a productive debrief.

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