Faculty Recruitment

Faculty Job Description Template (all faculty hire types)

Part-Time Faculty Instructional Offer Letter Template

General Policies

• Part-Time Faculty Recruiting, Appointment, Contract and Compensation Principles and Guidelines (distributed April 19, 2016)
• Viterbi Principles Related to Part-Time Faculty (revised January 19, 2016)
• Provost's Assistant Professor Fellowship (issued October 7, 2015) - competitive fellowship for new tenure-track faculty
• Viterbi's Diversity Recruitment Initiative (issued January 3, 2019) - in conjunction with the Provost's Diversity Initiative
• Casting the Net Widely (issued August 17, 2017) - all faculty searches are to encourage applications from a diverse applicant pool
• Reminder about job postings on department websites (sent August 28, 2018) - all job postings must direct applicants to the appropriate link on the USC Careers website
• Reminders from Office of Equity and Diversity (OED) about California employer obligations (sent August 23, 2018)
• Viterbi posting waiver procedures (revised April 22, 2015) - Note that the Provost's Office very rarely approves posting waivers, and if approved, only for exceptional cases
  • Academic Recruiting - Exceptions FAQ (issued April 12, 2012)

Candidate Interviews

• Viterbi guidelines and instructions for faculty search interviews (issued December 12, 2018) - Instructions issued by the Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs at the onset of the faculty hiring season
  
• Scheduling tenure and tenure-track faculty candidate interviews with the Dean's Office (sent January 29, 2018) - Reminder about which members of the Dean's Office should meet with which candidates

General Recruiting Guidelines

• Workflow for Hiring Full-Time Faculty (revised February 2019)
• Workflow for Hiring Part-Time Faculty(revised February 2019)
• Posting Faculty Positions (revised January 15, 2019)
• On November 29, 2018, USC HR deployed new Workday functionalities for hiring and onboarding student, faculty, and postdoctoral employees. With this deployment, we introduced several integrations and workflows for improved efficiency and accuracy in hiring and onboarding. Please review the updated Hiring and Onboarding pages, which include links to new QRGs for hiring faculty and students, as well as the PowerPoint used during information and training sessions.
• Effective Thursday, January 10, 2019, once the pre-hire records are integrated from FAM to Workday, the Review Employee Hire action will be the first step in the Faculty Hire Process in Workday. This will allow HRPAs to review and update the details of the hire, including the Annual Work Period (AWP) and Disbursement Plan Period (DPP). The Propose Compensation task will follow once the Review Employee Hire action is completed. For your convenience, please review the Faculty Workday Hire Process QRG. If you have any questions or concerns, you may reach the HR Service Center at uschr@usc.edu or 213-821-8100.

T/TT Faculty Recruiting

The diagram below illustrates the general timeline for the T/TT faculty recruiting cycle.