Course Objectives

OP115 - Hiring the Right Faculty for Your Institution

This course shows you how to hire high-quality instructors and orient them to your institution. The skills also apply to hiring staff. It's easy to hire someone to do a job. But it can be difficult to hire the right person. You want instructors who are top notch. They represent your institution and interact with the most people at your campus and particularly your students. This course starts with how to determine exactly what type of people you need as your instructors. Then it shows you how to recruit and hire them. Once hired, you'll learn how to introduce them to the working environment at your institution. By the time you finish this course, you'll be recruiting, hiring, and orienting quality instructors. You'll see results in improved enrollments, student achievement, retention, and completion.


Module 1: Job Analysis

  • Describe what a job analysis is.
  • Explain the difference between knowledge, skills, abilities, and other personal characteristics.
  • Conduct incumbent observations.
  • Conduct incumbent interviews.
  • Determine the difference between the deal-breaker and preferred characteristics of your future instructors.

Module 2: Recruitment

  • Attract the kinds of applicants you want for the job.
  • Identify and use applicant sources.
  • Assess your current efforts in order to enhance your current recruitment plan.
  • Describe the features of a newspaper advertisement that will produce good results.

Module 3: Selection

  • Select the best potential candidates to interview.
  • Identify what you can and can't ask the applicant.
  • Explain the steps in a structured interview.
  • Evaluate applications.
  • Examine the process for conducting an interview.
  • Create a realistic description of the job.
  • Utilize information gathered from the interview process.
  • Examine the decision criteria for hiring the right applicant.

Module 4: Job Offer and Orientation

  • List the pros and cons of email, phone, and in-person offers.
  • Discuss compensation.
  • Explain the need to be honest and accurate about the job and work environment.
  • List what new hires and particularly instructors need to know prior to beginning work.
  • Explain the orientation process.
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