Active Recruitment

Advertising Job Vacancies

University of Idaho is committed to running open competitive public searches to fill our job vacancies.

In addition to posting vacancies on the University of Idaho Careers Site, U of I contracts with JobElephant to post faculty and staff job vacancies. JobElephant is a recruitment advertising agency that that posts our job vacancies to annually contracted and curated list of recruitment and hiring venues.

Individual departments are also encouraged to initiate advertising in journals, publications and other recruiting media that are relevant to the position.

In addition to traditional and technology-based advertising venues, employees are encouraged to engage in “active recruitment” to build our applicant pools.

What is Active Recruiting?

The informal exchange of information among colleagues is still one of the most successful practices for identifying qualified job applicants.

You are actively recruiting if you have:

• Networks to make connections, such as: conferences, seminars, job fairs and networking events
• Other professional social networking media, such as LinkedIn and Facebook.
• Joining online groups relevant to your department and taking an active part in them.
• Ask members of the search committee to call colleagues to see if they know of individuals who might be qualified for and interested in this position.
• Called or sent the full position description to relevant professional organizations or networks.
• Engaged local networks of people in related fields at the university or area colleges, corporations and businesses to see if they know of potential candidates.
• Had a discussion in a department or search committee meeting to brainstorm other active recruiting strategies early in the search process.