When a position has been posted, the hiring manager's role is to manage and communicate information with the search committee throughout the process.
Communication throughout the search process with your applicants if critical. Learn about the tools available through HR and UB Jobs to help you identify key contact information for applicants.
Use an applicant list to make communication of applicant updates between you and your search committee easier. The tool provides step by step instruction about how to populate the applicant information as well as a worksheet for search committee members to update an applicant's status.
HR can create and email you an Excel spreadsheet with your applicants' contact information when the job posting closes. This information is helpful when you generate form letters to applicants.
The spreadsheet includes:
We recommend that you request this report before disqualifying applicants. Only active applicants will be included in the report.
Once the job is posted, your role in the UB Jobs application is to communicate posting information with your search committee and HR. Learn about your role in different aspects of the posting.
Find new information on the Summary tab:
You may need to repost a job to either:
To repost your posting send HR recruitment an email and include in your message:
HR will notify you when your posting has been reposted.
A posting may go unfilled for the following reasons:
To cancel your posting:
The UB Jobs application will automatically send an email message to the applicants when the posting has been cancelled.
Dear Applicant:
This letter is to inform you of your application status for our search for <<Insert Classification Title>>, posting number <<Insert Posting Number>>. Unfortunately, the search for this position has been cancelled.
Thank you for your interest in employment opportunities at the University at Buffalo. I sincerely hope you will continue to review our postings in UB Jobs at and will apply again in the future.
Thank you,
Human Resources
University at Buffalo
Townsend Hall, 205 Hayes Road
Buffalo, NY 14214
Phone: 716-645-7777
e-mail: UB-Jobs@buffalo.edu
website:
THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN NON-PUBLIC, CONFIDENTIAL, OR LEGALLY PRIVLEDGED INFORMATION INTENDED FOR THE SOLE USE OF THE DESIGNATED RECIPIENTS. IF YOU ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, OR HAVE RECEIVED THIS COMMUNICATION IN ERROR, PLEASE NOTIFY THE SENDER IMMEDIATELY BY REPLY E-MAIL OR TELEPHONE, AND DELETE ALL COPIES OF THIS COMMUNICATION, INCLUDING ATTACHMENTS, WITHOUT READING THEM OR SAVING THEM TO DISK.
IF YOU ARE THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, YOU MUST SECURE THE CONTENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE STATE OR FEDERAL LAWS
** This is an auto-generated e-mail, please do not respond.**
At the end of a search, ensure that all applicant statuses have been updated so that there are no remaining active applicants. Once all applicants have been updated, HR will mark the posting as filled.
Applicants appreciate timely communication about their application status. You and the search committee should updated applicant statuses as soon as a candidate is not under consideration for a posting.
At the conclusion of a search, the search committee will need you to submit a hiring proposal for the candidate recommended for hire.
An offer of employment cannot be sent out to a candidate until all approvals have been obtained.
Prepare and submit your hiring proposal:
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Anthony Grieco
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Shannon Hourigan
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Lauren Merletti
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Regional Director, Upstate New York HERC and Recruitment Specialist
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