Recruitment/Hiring Procedures and Resources

For Search Chairs/Committees

Getting Started

• Tip Sheet - A step by step guide to conducting a search (search chairs)
• FAQ - Common questions and answers that arise throughout the search process
• Filling Non-broadbanded Positions (academic staff and executive positions) - NDSU Policy 304
• Roles and Responsibilities - An overview of roles in the search process.
• NDSU Guidelines for Developing Position Descriptions
• Citizenship Discrimination - Relevant laws and policies regarding citizenship discrimination

Recruiting for a Diverse Applicant Pool

• Useful websites for faculty searches (divided by academic area) - Links to sites for job postings or access to diverse applicants within academic areas.
• Colleges and Universities - Downloadable labels for sending position announcements.
• University List - This is a list of the universities awarding the largest number of doctoral degrees to students of color.

Screening and Interviewing

• Reference Checking Guidelines - Helpful hints on telephone reference checks
• Planning the Search Committee Interview
• Interviewing - What to ask and what to avoid - (College and University Personnel Association)
• Interviewing Guidelines for ADA Compliance - Pre-Employment Inquiries
• Employment Q&A - Prohibited and lawful interview information (*provided with permission from the General Counsel's Office at the Catholic University of America)
• Other NDSU resources for interviewing (available on loan from Equity, Diversity, and Global Outreach Office)
  
  Two videos about interviewing are available for use by on-campus departments (contact 1-7708 or 1-5693).
  

  -- Interviewing - Getting Beyond the Image -
  This 26-minute video is particularly appropriate for search committees and supervisors who are conducting interviews. The video illustrates several different types of interviewing questions and also suggests how to effectively plan, structure and manage an interview to get the most helpful information.
  
  -- More Than Gut Feeling –
  This 28-minute video explains behavioral interviewing, an approach that emphasizes the importance of exploring an applicant’s past experience as the best predictor of future performance. The video demonstrates how to structure an effective interview and develop appropriate questions based on specific experience.

• Community/University Information
  -- Current university and community description
  -- City of Fargo: http://www.ci.fargo.nd.us/
  -- City of Moorhead: http://www.ci.moorhead.mn.us/
• ND Veteran's Preference
  -- NDSU Procedures in Recruitment/Selection for Nonbanded Positions S.Subject to ND Veteran's Preference Law
  -- ND Veteran's Preference Claim Form
  -- Screening Action Sheet (Microsoft Excel File)
  -- Legal Watch - North Dakota Veteran's Preference Law

Preparing an Offer

• Appointment Letter Templates
  -- Recruitment Process Checklist
  -- Memo from Provost and VP Schnell regarding standardized appointment letters
  -- Tenure track appointment letter
  -- NonTenure track appointment letters (faculty rank or lecturers)
  -- Tenured appointment letter
• Pre-employment Criminal Record Disclosure
  

   

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Prospective students may schedule a visit by calling 1-800-488-NDSU.

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