Refer to Human Resource’s manager toolkit for resources and tools that will assist you with the recruiting, hiring and onboarding process. For even more helpful resources, visit HR’s hiring manager resources page.
Have you recently completed a search and selected your new staff member? To begin the hiring process, please visit the Business Services website that outlines the steps in the process. Once you complete these steps, review this list of considerations for hiring managers to elevate their new employee pre-boarding and onboarding experience.
Helpful Considerations
Hiring managers can use these resources below to find helpful advice on how to facilitate a new employee’s onboarding process from their time pre-employment up to their first few months.
Hiring Manager’s Resource Page
The Hiring Manager’s Resources page contains several useful resources for hiring managers, such as:
- EEOC interview guidelines
- Diversity and Veteran job board advertising resources
- Interview Builder
- Reference check guidelines.
PageUp Training
Human Resources hosts training guides meant to be used as a resources for hiring managers in conjunction with the PageUp People Staff Recruitment System.
If you have specific questions not answered by either of the training guides above, contact your HR recruiter for information.
Refresh Your Mind
It can be helpful to give yourself a quick refresher of the hiring process from your own point-of-view and the applicant’s. See the on-boarding guide for new employees to get a sense of what the applicant is dealing with, then view the supervisor’s onboarding guide to look over the tools and resources available to ensure a smooth hiring process for the department and potential new employee.
Don’t forget to review the HR performance management cycle and dates. Setting a reminder in your Outlook Calendar can be a good way to remind yourself of these responsibilities in the future.
Sharpen Your Skills
Prepare yourself for your new employee by completing supervisor trainings as available. HR Learning and Development provides many options which include in-person, virtual and asynchronous formats for trainings of many different topics. Specific recommended trainings for Student Life hiring mangers are:
- New Management Orientation
- UA LMS My Team Information Session
- Conducting Effective Performance Reviews
- Leave and Accommodations Training
- Necessary Knowledge and Third-Party Resolution for Supervisors
Explore other training options using the UA LMS Manager’s Hub.
Read or review the notice to hiring managers on the hiring manager resources page.
Additional options for training include LinkedIn Learning, student affairs specific professional development (NASPA, ACPA, etc.), functional area webinars or specialized manager trainings.
