Search Toolkit

This search toolkit is a combination of processes, guidelines, and resources to be followed throughout the employee search process.

Employee Search Files

• Recruitment & Hiring Guidelines
• Overview of Search Process
• Confidentiality Statement
• Search Committee Acknowledgement
• Conflict of Interest Statement
• Exemption Standards
  • Teaching and Research Academic Professionals
  • Principal Administrative Appointments
• UIUC Nondiscrimination Statement
• Illinois Human Rights Act
• A quick guide to civil service exempt versus non-exempt positions
• Accessibility & Accommodations

Resources for Understanding & Mitigating Bias

Gies Business is committed to a diverse, equitable and inclusive community. The resources below help to ensure searches are conducted equitably and without bias. They should be utilized by the search committee and hiring managers of every search.

• Office for Access and Equity
  • Recruitment Sources to Expand Diversity of Staff Search Pools
  • 8 Ways to for a Search Committee to Be Inclusive (The Chronicle)
  • How a Search Committee Can Be the Arbiter of Diversity (The Chronicle)
  • 16 Unconscious Bias Examples and How to Avoid Them in the Workplace (Built In)

• Project Implicit
  • Overview
  • Take an Implicit Bias Test
• Blind Spots Video Links
  • Broaden Perspectives
  • Challenge Assumptions
  • Enhance Objectivity
  • Overcome Stereotypes

Student Employee Resources for Managers

Hiring a student worker or teaching assistant? The Student Supervisor Toolkit is a resource to support units in the search, management, and evaluation of student workers. The toolkit builds on the development of professional competencies that employers seek most, helping the student connect their work to skills they can put on their resume and discuss in an interview for a full-time position.