Guide provides “roadmap” to effective hiring practices at UF

The Leadership Toolkit is designed to provide you with tools to enhance the leadership qualities you already possess, while cultivating new strengths through education and training. Included in the toolkit are job aids, video/audio podcasts, and suggested readings. These resources will assist your efforts in being a better manager and leader and are available whenever you need them.

Did you know that the average cost to replace an employee is around 1/3 of the employee’s salary? Or that 60 percent of turnovers are the result of a lack of understanding about the job and/or workplace?

The Roadmap to Effective Hiring guide provides hiring managers a breakdown of the recruitment process to help find the best-fit candidate for the opening. Learn the steps involved with preplanning, advertising the job, managing applications, interviewing candidates, making an offer, hiring the employee and tips for successful onboarding.

Building an effective team to support your mission and goals starts with recruitment. As a hiring manager, the time you invest in the process will impact the search for candidates, the employee hired, and ultimately your ability to effectively lead your team.