Search Committee Review
This guide shows you how to participate in a search committee review. Some tasks are specific to the Search Committee Chair. Other tasks are completed by everyone on the search committee.
Process Diagram

- When applications are moved to the Search Committee Review status, committee members are notified.
- Committee members rate the applicants based on the agreed-upon selection criteria and add comments. Search committee members cannot see other member’s comments, review or rating.
- The Search Committee Chair reviews the ratings and comments.
- The Search Committee Chair sends the search committee recommendations to the Hiring Manager or HR/Faculty Affairs Representative, based on your campus’s business process.
Definitions
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Panel |
Panel
is the term for search committee that is used in PageUp documentation. |
Search
Committee Chair |
A
user who is able to read other committee members’ responses and rank applicants
during the search committee review. |
Search
committee member |
A user who is assigned to review or rate applicants during a search committee review. Search committee members compare applicants against a set of selection criteria, then decide whether the candidate meets the requirements. Committee members can add comments. Ratings and comments made by committee members are visible only to the Search Committee Chair, but not to other search committee members. |
Selection
criteria |
Criteria that are used to assess applicants during the selection process. Search committees use the selection criteria during the selection process to assess applicants. Example of a search criterion: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals. |
View Applicants
If you have a Search committee review tile on your dashboard, you will see jobs that are waiting for your review.

Search committee members can then view the applications. When viewing applicants, committee members can do the following:
- Review answers on the application.
- Review the applicable documentation from the applicant.
- Rate applicants against the selection criteria.
- Add comments.
Follow the steps in this table below to view applicants.
- Click the Jobs requiring panel review link on the dashboard.

- Click View Applicants on the line of the applicable job. The View Applicants page opens.
- If you are the Search Committee Chair, you have links to view responses of search committee members in addition to viewing applicants.

View resume and answers to questions
You can quickly open an applicant’s resume, or view their answers to the job application questions by using two small icons on the View Applicants page.
- The view resume and view answers icons are next to the applicant’s name in the applicants list. Click the applicable icon to view each.

Bulk compile and send documentation
You can use the Bulk compile and send function to gather the applicants’ documents together and create a PDF file for you to review or to send to a user.
- On the View Applicants page select the applicants that you want to view, or check the Select All check box.
- Click Bulk compile and send.

- On the document selection page, select the documents to include in the PDF.

- Click Create PDF at the bottom of the page. CHRS Recruiting generates a PDF file.
- When the PDF file is ready, you can download the file. Right-click the download link to download, or use the search field to send the document in an email to a user.

- Click Okay.
- All of the selected documents for all selected applicants are included in a single PDF file.
- If you downloaded the document you can review it on your workstation.
- If you sent the document in an email, the selected user receives an email with the document as an attachment.
Rate applicants using selection criteria
Use the selection criteria to rate applicants. You rate each applicant on each selection criterion and provide a summary at the end. The selection criteria outcome is displayed in the applicant list.
- Select the applicant that you are reviewing from the panel on the left. If you have already reviewed the applicant, you will see a Reviewed flag.

- Read the selection criteria. Example:

- For each criterion, select an outcome from the menu.

- Add comments in the Comments field.

- Use the scroll bar on the right side of the page to scroll down to see all the selection criteria.
- At the bottom of the page, type in a summary of your views about this applicant.

- Choose a Selection Criteria Outcome.

- Click Save and next to review another candidate, or click Close to exit.

Review search committee feedback (Chair only)
The Search Committee Chair can review the feedback from the search committee members. The Search Committee Chair must review the information provided by the members before making a recommendation to the hiring manager.
- Open My Search Committee jobs:
- From the Main Menu, click Search committee review.
- You can also open the page by clicking Jobs requiring panel review on the dashboard.

- Click View Responses for the applicable job.

- Select the applicant that you are reviewing from the panel on the left.

- In the main panel read the selection criteria and the reviewers’ ratings and comments.
- After reviewing all the responses, you can send recommendations to the hiring manager.
- If applicant ranking is enabled, you can rank the applicants.
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