Recruitment and Selection

The University's Recruitment Policy and Guidelines incorporates a number of commitments to equity and diversity. These commitments include:

• to ensure that the recruitment and selection process has been fair and equitable and that the best effort was made to pro-actively seek qualified staff from groups that are under-represented in the staffing profile of their area
• an aim to ensure that at least 30% of academic staff in any given School will be female
• to ensure that Convenors of Appointment Committees receive training in recruitment and the principles of equity and are held accountable for ensuring a fair and equitable process from beginning to end.
• an aim to ensure that at least 30% of the members of an Appointment Committee are trained in recruitment and the principles of equity.

A list of staff trained in equity principles for recruitment/appointment committees is available on this website. Recommended strategies for increasing the number of academic women and other under-represented groups on Committees is available in the tools and resources section of this website.

The Human Resources Recruitment Toolkit provides further information on Search Plans, which can provide a mechanism to develop a more diverse staff profile and consider equity and diversity issues in the recruitment process. They are designed to broaden the field of qualified candidates and provide strategies on attracting applications from candidates who might not otherwise think of applying to work at the University of Adelaide.

The Recruitment Toolkit provides specific information on equity and diversity issues to consider in the recruitment process.

Groups that are under-represented in the University

The University encourages and supports the employment of academic and administrative staff from the following groups currently underrepresented in the University's staffing profile:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• women (specifically for academic and senior management positions)
• people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
• people with a disability.

The University's staff Diversity Management Plan for 2005-2007 identifies recruitment, development and retention strategies for five staff Equity and Diversity target groups. The groups are:

1. Women
2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
3. People of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
4. People with a disability
5. People identified as being from ‘younger’ or ‘older’ age groups.