PM Hiring Guide

While several hiring managers within Student Life use forms of inclusive and holistic recruitment and hiring practices, there was a need create a common framework for staff to leverage.

After several iterations, in consultation with Student Life leadership, a detailed framework and associated simplified guide highlighted key practices that Student Life hiring managers should leverage in the hiring of PM roles. These practices included hiring committee members completing implicit bias training modules, intentional assessment of the potential impact of candidate’ EDIA/lived experience in the context of role and incorporating consistent weighted assessment to the review of interviewed candidates.

Associated resources to help implement these practices were either curated or developed. Importantly, a new protocol was established where a checklist tracking the use of practices needed to be signed off by the hiring manager’s supervisor prior to the hiring being finalized.

The PM framework was leveraged in two PM hires during the reporting period.