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To ensure you are providing an exceptional, fair candidate experience, review the topics below to learn more about the talent acquisition process and to create recruitment plans for a specific position. 

While these topics should apply to most hiring at Stanford, there are unique circumstances when hiring temp/casuals, students, global staff and faculty appointments; to learn more about hiring for those positions, please see the quick links at the bottom of this page.

Before you begin, confirm you have the appropriate budget and approvals from your leadership and HR team.

Typical Responsibilities for Local Human Resources Managers

• Represents needs of the unit to University HR
• Develops programs to support local recruiting needs
• Facilitates and provides consultation on the recruiting process within the local unit and between the local unit and University HR
• Conducts and coordinates position searches, including selection and use of employment search firms
• Implements and administers recruitment and hiring policies

Typical Responsibilities for Hiring Supervisors

• Makes selection and hiring decisions within the stipulated policies and parameters, including reviewing resumes, interviewing candidates, conducting reference checks, and documenting processes and decisions
• Implements recruiting and staffing policies, programs, and processes locally

Additional recruiting & hiring resources

If your school/unit is not currently receiving recruiting support from the Talent Acquisition Center of Expertise (TA CoE), please refer to these links for recruiting and hiring resources.

• Faculty Appointments
• CardinalTemps
• Hiring Temporary, Casual & Student Employees
• Recruiting & Hiring Global Staff
• Stanford Careers site

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