At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, recruiting and hiring new employees is one of our most important cooperative responsibilities. This toolkit provides resources to assist you in recruiting talent and making hiring decisions in a fair and equitable way.
Please click on the items below to find out more about the university’s Search Guidelines as well as more detailed information for the various stages of the search process
Please bookmark this webpage instead of the hyperlinked documents. We regularly update the content as new information becomes available. Bookmarking this page ensures you always access the most current and accurate information.
If you have questions or need assistance, please contact us at accessandequity@illinois.edu.
Search Guidelines
Recruitment and Hiring Guidelines
Overview of Search Process by Employee Group
Best Practices for an Inclusive Search Process
Search Process Documentation
Applicant Status and Disposition Code Guidance Video
Disposition Code Quick Reference
How to Change a Disposition Code
Develop Job Description
Select the Search Team
Train the Search Team
Inclusive Hiring at Illinois Training
The Inclusive Hiring at Illinois training must be completed annually by EEO officers/vice chair/assistant vice chairs, and every two years by hiring managers, search committee chairs, diversity advocates and search committee members.
Understand and Mitigate Bias
Project Implicit (Harvard)
8 Ways for a Search Committee to Be Inclusive (The Chronicle)
How a Search Committee Can Be the Arbiter of Diversity (The Chronicle)
10 Myths and Facts About Hiring People with Disabilities (Work to Include)
16 Unconscious Bias Examples and How to Avoid Them in the Workplace (Built In)
Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) Resources
To set up an account with HERC please go to their login page and click on Register here. Once an account has been established members can access many resources, including a Faculty Search Committee Training Toolkit which has short films about The Committee, The Recruitment Plan, Reviewing the Applicants, as well as Campus Visits and In-Person Interviewing.
Additional Educational Resources
Search Committee Forms
Conduct Outreach and Recruitment
Track and Evaluate Good Faith Efforts
Video – Documenting GFE Training
Custom Applicant Source Code Job Aid
Reports
Diversity of the Pool and Source Report Job Aid
Diversity of the Pool and Source Report Access
Additional Recruitment Guidance
HERC – Diversity Recruitment Toolkit: Strategies for Targeted Populations
(Member Login Required)
Recruiting Diverse and Excellent New Faculty (Inside Higher Ed)
Wanted: Disabled Faculty Members (Inside Higher Ed)
Targeting Veterans for Hire (Circa)
5 Pros and Cons or Recruiting with Social Media (Berkshire Associates)
Evaluate Applicants
Assess Applications
Why Your “Objective” Screening Rubric Produced Bias Results (The Chronicle)
Conduct Interviews
Gender in the Job Interview (The Chronicle)
Reference Checks
Campus Reference Check Resources
Off-List Reference Checking Approval Form
Additional Reference Check Resources
Admin 101: How to Interpret Reference Letters (The Chronicle)
Is It Time to Eliminate Recommendation Letters? (The Chronicle)
Off-List References (The Chronicle)
Asking the Right Questions: Crafting Inclusive Interviews (HERC Webinar)