Faculty Hiring Best Practices

The Faculty Hiring Best Practices (FHBP) mini-course supports faculty involved in recruitment and search processes by providing a distillation of best practices in faculty recruiting.

The information and resources provided in FHBP supplement the direct support for faculty hiring that is provided by deans and their staff, and by the Human Resources team. The HR multi-step process is outlined on the HR website at Hiring a Faculty Member.

• To take the course, contact Dalilah Smith-Santos and she will add you to the current course.
• Faculty who are serving on a faculty search must have completed this course, the Faculty Hiring Best Practices course, within the last three years. Faculty receive a certificate, but if you are unclear of when your certificate expires, contact Dalilah Smith-Santos in OFE.
• The course includes reference to a number of tools (sample job ads, interview questions, strategies, rubrics) that are useful for faculty searches; they can be accessed through the course or directly through the Open Access File Folder for Faculty Hiring Searches (netID required)
• Each summer OFE updates Montclair State University Student and Faculty Demographic Data to provide search committees with up-to-date analyses of their department, college/school, and university.
• Note that this course is different from the HR’s Equity and Compliance Search Committee Training course that members of any university search committee must have completed within one year.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction
This section introduces the Provost’s priorities and Montclair faculty’s demographic characteristics in comparison to national faculty data and Montclair student populations.

Part 2: Understanding Implicit Bias
This section will provide a primer on implicit bias research and its relevance and implications for hiring, making the case for many of the hiring procedures and strategies recommended in this section and the rest of the mini-course. Includes optional 30-minute “learn more” videos.

Part 3: Before a Search Begins
This section is focused on soft recruiting well in advance of posting your job, proposing a line that will fit the University’s priorities, and writing an effective and inclusive job ad.

Part 4: Running an Equity-Forward Search
This section provides best practices for conducting a search, addressing search committee formation, screening tools, interview questions, and strategies and information useful to recruitment.

Last Modified: Friday, November 22, 2024 3:33 pm