Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Hiring Practices

  • Do not automatically refill vacant or vacated positions
  • Delay, for a limited time, replacement of full-time faculty who retire or leave
  • Hire more staff who are technically qualified and who are able to handle more functions
  • Administratively control all full-time faculty hiring
  • Buy back early retirees on a part-time basis to teach large classes
  • Develop online candidate or applicant tracking system
  • Develop cost-effective methods to process personnel requests
  • Furnish substitute teachers for illness or death only
  • Hire managers with greater experience in their area of responsibility
  • Reduce overtime by hiring part-time or short-term help to cover vacant full-time, classified positions
  • Improve the manager training process for the hiring of classified employees
  • Standardize the training process for search and selection committees
  • Restrict employees from returning as “consultants” at higher pay
  • Survey and audit all job descriptions; develop generic job classifications
  • Use more part-time teachers
  • Use more volunteer teachers
  • Use students as graders and clerks
  • Establish more work-study programs for students in lieu of permanent employees, wherever part-time work is a viable option

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus

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