-: My name's Peggy Boyle, I'm the assistant director
of human resources for recruitment at West Conn.
We hire faculty, maintenance staff,
clerical staff, management staff,
and I'm involved in all of the recruitment
and hiring processes for all those different levels.
So, first we work with the hiring manager.
The position, of course, first has to get approved,
to make sure we have money for the position,
and then we develop an ad,
and that gets posted to various sites,
depend upon the position that we're recruiting for.
And then we collect the applications
in a holding email box in human resources
or in our diversity office, depending upon the job.
And then the search committee develops a screening grid,
which helps them rate each applicant
and the materials that they presented.
And then they get it down to a reasonable
number of applicants
and they either have telephone interviews
or they bring them to campus for interviews.
And they usually meet with an assortment
of people on campus.
And then they, a search committee
makes a recommendation to their hiring supervisor,
maybe the dean or a VP or associate vice president.
And the finalist is selected.
I get the lucky phone call to call them up and
(laughing) ask them if they want to work for West Conn,
and then we do reference checks,
and maybe a pre-employment physical
for certain staff,
and do their appointment letters
and then we do background checks
and we get them started.