Faculty Hiring Best Practices

The Faculty Hiring Best Practices (FHBP) mini-course supports faculty involved in recruitment and search processes by providing a distillation of best practices in faculty recruiting.

The information and resources provided in FHBP supplement the direct support for faculty hiring that is provided by deans and their staff, and by the Human Resources team. The HR multi-step process is outlined on the HR website at Hiring a Faculty Member.

• To take the course, contact Dalilah Smith-Santos or Vera Senina to be added to the current course.
• Faculty who are serving on a faculty search must have completed this course, the Faculty Hiring Best Practices course, within the last three years. Faculty receive a certificate, but if you are unclear of when your certificate expires, contact Dalilah Smith-Santos in OFE.

• The course includes reference to tools (sample job ads, interview questions, strategies, rubrics) that are useful for faculty searches; they can be accessed through the course or directly through the Open Access File Folder for Faculty Hiring Searches (netID required).
• Faculty Search and Hiring from Call for Proposals to completion of the hire is explained in the Faculty Search and Hiring Guide.
• Each summer OFE updates Montclair State University Student and Faculty Demographic Data to provide search committees with up-to-date analyses of their department, college/school, and university.
• Note that this course is NOT the HR’s Search Committee Compliance Training course that members of all university search committees must have completed within one year of serving on a committee.

Last Modified: Thursday, October 2, 2025 12:42 pm