The Guide to Equitable Hiring Practices: Staff Recruitment aims to uphold UBC’s commitment to inclusive excellence and accessibility in hiring and to ensure equitable hiring practices are in alignment with university policies, government legislation and collective agreements.
The purpose of this guide is to:
- articulate UBC’s commitments to inclusive excellence and obligations to ensure equitable hiring practices in accordance with university policies, government legislation and collective agreement
- provide hiring managers, people managers and members of hiring panels with information, tools and resources to enable the integration of equity principles and practices across all faculty and staff hiring processes
The guide provides a series of recommended promising practices that complement existing policies and offers guidance on how to apply them across the following eight hiring stages recommended by UBC Human Resources:
- Setting the stage for recruitment
- Preparing the job description
- Job posting and sourcing
- Screening and shortlisting
- Interviewing
- Post-interview reference check
- Selection and offer negotiation
- Onboarding
Promising practices are described under each stage, and additional considerations, tools and resources are provided in appendices aligned with the stages and best practices listed. All guidance provided is aligned to and complements procedures for appointments in the collective agreements between UBC and the various employee groups. If there is any discrepancy between this guide and the collective agreement, the provisions of the collective agreement will prevail.
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For any questions related to this guide, please contact the UBC Equity & Inclusion Office or your Human Resources contact at UBC Vancouver or at UBC Okanagan. Faculty and Portfolio Equity Leads may also be consulted to ensure unit-level alignment with Faculty hiring policies and protocols.