Creating Effective Search Committees: Selection, Training & Best Practices

Description  Overview Search committees are essential in recruiting, evaluating, and recommending the most qualified candidates for faculty and staff positions. Search committee members are often the first employees a candidate will meet. Each search committee member has a unique opportunity to represent the institution as a welcoming community while searching by institutional policies and procedures. This is a privilege that comes with your position. Creating a search committee involves careful planning and execution to ensure the recruitment process is effective and fair.  This session will outline best practices for developing guidelines for search committees.  Objectives Select members from a diverse cross-section of the campus. Establish clear objectives for the search committee. Clarify the roles and responsibilities of each committee member. Provide training on fair hiring practices, unconscious bias, and the recruitment process. Evaluate criteria, select candid