The Guide to Equitable Hiring Practices: Faculty Recruitment aims to uphold UBC’s commitment to inclusive excellence and accessibility in hiring and ensure equitable hiring practices are in alignment with university policies, government legislation and faculty collective agreements.
The guide equips deans, heads of units, directors, chairs and members of hiring committees – as well as human resource professionals – with tools and resources to embed equity principles across eight hiring stages recommended by UBC Human Resources – from recruitment to onboarding.
This guide was prepared by the Equity & Inclusion Office in consultation with UBC Human Resources.
Guide overview
The guide introduces a suite of promising practices designed to enhance existing policies, offering step-by-step guidance through the eight critical stages of hiring as outlined by UBC Human Resources:
- Setting the stage for recruitment
- Preparing the job description
- Job posting and sourcing
- Screening and shortlisting
- Interviewing
- Post-interview checking
- Selection and offer negotiation
- Onboarding
It is designed to be dynamic, with plans for periodic updates to reflect new knowledge, promising practices, community needs, and feedback and ensuring alignment with the ongoing evolution of the Employment Equity Advisor Pilot Program. The guide addresses the historical and ongoing impacts of inequities, particularly on communities experiencing multiple forms of exclusion, and underscores the importance of inclusive excellence, employment equity and accessibility in employment, defined as follows:
- Inclusive excellence supports the notion that a campus community with varied viewpoints can directly contribute to the health, well-being and success of its workforce as well as to its research and academic achievements.
- Employment equity involves a conscious effort to mitigate personal biases and dismantle systemic barriers, and a commitment to substantive equality aimed at advancing opportunities and outcomes for historically, persistently, and systemically marginalized (HPSM) groups.
- Accessibility in employment addresses the need to identify, remove, and prevent barriers that prevent disabled individuals from fully participating in the university’s life and work.
By applying an equity lens and integrating inclusive excellence and accessibility principles throughout university hiring practices highlighted in this guide, UBC aims to create work and learning environments where everyone is valued and can thrive, contributing to the university’s capacity to achieve its vision and purpose.
Download guide
This guide is available in a PDF and Microsoft Word (.docx) format.
Get in touch
For any questions related to this guide, please contact the UBC Equity & Inclusion Office or your Human Resources contact at UBC Vancouver or at UBC Okanagan.