Search Compliance
The Employment Equity Team is responsible for monitoring employment transactions to ensure compliance with state and federal equal non -discrimination and employment opportunity regulations. The team provides support and guidance to search committees, hiring departments, and search administrators and works collaboratively with Human Resources to ensure a fair and equitable search process. The staff reviews and approves searches at two stages of the search process: pre-interview and pre-offer.
The team is available to provide consultation on the search process including search committee roles and responsibilities, recruitment strategies and good faith efforts in recruitment, non-discriminatory evaluation of applicants, required documentation, interviewing best practices and AA/EEO compliance.
To access online search committee training, please visit:
equity.uconn.edu/search-orientation-workshops/
Search Committee Resources
Pre-Interview Evaluation & Approval
At the pre-interview stage, the review ensures that proactive recruitment strategies were implemented by search committees and hiring departments. Additionally, the review ensures that disposition reasons for applicant ranking are qualification related, objective, and specific.
Post-Interview Evaluation & Approval
At the post-interview stage, the review ensures detailed explanations of the committee’s qualification-based reasoning for rejecting and selecting applicants for hire are included for all applicants in the Interview group.
Hire Approval Checklist for Faculty
Hire Approval Checklist for Staff