Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
focused on the role that his or her job plays in relation to the college‘s mission, and every
employee is appreciated for doing his or her part.
To that end, careful attention is paid to every step of the recruitment and selection processes
for every job vacancy, from the creation of a job flyer that lists minimum qualifications and
the desired qualifications for every job, through the creation and selection of the questions
for the interviews. Each recruitment is conducted knowing that the candidate selected may
have an important impact, for many years to come, on the lives of the students who entrust
their education to the college.
The Human Resources Office oversees and coordinates the recruitment and hiring of all
permanent and temporary employees, including full-time and part-time faculty, classified
staff, and administrative staff. A Human Resources Specialist is devoted to this recruitment
role, but all HR staff members participate in recruitment activities in one way or another, and
recruitment updates and issues are regularly discussed in HR staff meetings. The Recruitment
Specialist works with each hiring manager to develop the job announcements, select the
appropriate places the job will be advertised, establish a timeline for the recruitment, create a
fair and appropriate representative selection committee, and train all members of the
committee for the important job of selecting a candidate that meets the needs the college has
identified for the position. The committee determines the questions that will be asked of the
candidates, including any tests or demonstrations it will require, before it begins its review of
the applications. HR staff members assist and guide this process throughout.
Board Policy requires that the college recruit and retain a workforce of the highest quality,
with due consideration for its commitment to diversity, and the implementing policies
provide clear, step-by-step direction on how to select personnel to achieve that goal. The
college follows these policies and procedures in every recruitment.
RECRUITMENT, SCREENING AND SELECTION PROCESS
Each recruitment begins with a job announcement that provides information about Hartnell
College, its students, and its mission, as well as clear descriptions of the job duties, the
minimum education and experience qualifications for the job, the desired qualifications for
the job, the salary, and the working conditions. One of the job qualifications is always a
requirement that the candidate demonstrate sensitivity to the needs of the diverse academic,
socioeconomic, cultural, disability and ethnic backgrounds of community college students
and the community at large. Faculty and administrative hires must provide a statement to this
effect.
To cast a wider net for its faculty and administrator applicant pools, the HR Office consults
with the faculty and staff in the hiring discipline or department to ask them to spread the
word of this employment opportunity among colleagues from professional organizations and
conferences, and peers and mentors from their graduate programs. Additionally, HR staff
periodically review the graduation rates of colleges and universities who graduate the highest
numbers of minorities with master‘s and doctoral degrees in the area of expertise, and add the
placement offices of those institutions to its recruitment lists. Additionally, at a minimum, job
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