Summer 2004
NEWS
College
to go "Live" With Online Hiring System July 1
SUNY
Geneseo will embark July 1 on a bold new initiative that will save time
and money, and in the process benefit the hundreds of individuals who
apply to work at the College in a variety of faculty, staff and student
positions each year. The College is replacing the traditional "paper
application" process with an online employment and application system
that will be used when hiring faculty, professional and classified staff.
The system will also be used for employing students on the Geneseo campus.
The implementation of the system is under the auspices of the newly named
Human Resources Department, and officials there say that Geneseo is the
first campus in the SUNY system to implement an online employment system.
There are many benefits of the new system to facilitate and automate many
of the previously labor-intensive, paper-driven aspects of the recruitment,
application and hiring process. Job seekers will be able to view job postings
online, establish and maintain password-protected accounts to maintain
online employment applications, submit job-specific cover letters and
résumés, and track the status of positions for which they
have applied. The benefits are also plentiful for managers overseeing
a search. The applicant pool can be accessed electronically at any time,
and applications and résumés can be stored electronically,
rather than filling up file cabinets and storage facilities.
Training on how to use the new system will be offered to department heads
and their designees from 1:30-3 p.m. in South Hall, Room 341 on July 2,
9, 16, 23 and 30. Additional training will be offered after classes start
in the fall. Contact Sherri Bush at bushs@geneseo.edu
to register for the training.