Recruiting the Best Talent to UVA

UVA Talent Acquisition

Talent Acquisition - Academic and UVA Health

Our vision is to recruit the best talent to UVA Academic and UVA Health, ensuring the best possible experience for hiring managers, search committees, and job seekers. We leverage best-in-class recruitment and talent flexibility tools to find and attract high-quality candidates and create robust talent pipelines. Our strategic approach can identify candidates with strong potential and the willingness to grow with the institution, often leading to higher engagement and long-term retention. 

Leader Talent Acquisition - Janet Turner-Giles, Interim AVP

Recruitment Area Leaders:

  • UVA Academic - Chris Cunningham, Director 
  • UVA Health – Melynda Zarzyski, Director
  • Pipelines & Pathways - Hollie Lee, Manager 
  • Talent Flex - Katherine DiResta, Manager

(Talent Flex includes temp, wage, and student hiring)

 

Service Offerings & Key Outcomes:

  • Job Sourcing and Posting

    Sourcing is the deliberate process of proactively searching for qualified candidates for current or planned open positions and the posting of requisitions for any open positions. Effective sourcing increases the number of qualified candidates in a candidate pool.

    Our Services

    • Build on branding, outreach, and social media strategies
    • Share candidates for similar positions across requisitions and hiring managers
    • Deliver recruitment and branding events
    • Develop active and passive candidate pipelines
    • Build engagement strategies

    The Outcomes for Our Customers

    • Experienced recruiters focused on hiring needs
    • Proactive sourcing to attract the best candidates
    • Rapid job postings
    • Rapid and reduced cost job advertising due to leveraged contracts
    • More robust infrastructure to minimize recruiter administrative tasks
    • Quality, vetted candidates for interviews
    • Decreased time to fill a position (emphasis on right candidate) and increased job offer acceptance rate
    • Increased size of applicant pools and talent pipelines

  • Search and Candidate Experience

    Search and candidate experience is the detailed work that makes the life of a hiring manager and search committee easier. From scheduling of candidate interviews to making the final job offer, this area oversees the details that matter to the hiring unit and reinforce the candidate experience. When done well, consistent and predictable recruit-to-hire support improves acceptance rates. It also optimizes recruiter-specific talents, enhances the employment brand, and increases hiring manager and search committee satisfaction.

    Our Services

    • Develop position narratives
    • Support candidate screening
    • Provide applicant tracking and reporting
    • Facilitate candidate communications
    • Advise best practices for reference checks
    • Produce offer letters
    • Provide information about Charlottesville and direct candidates to resources

    The Outcomes for Our Customers

    • Reduced administrative burden for recruiter
    • Candidate interview scheduling
    • Single point of contact for candidate questions
    • Offer letter preparation for your approval
    • Salary negotiations with candidates (if desired)
       

  • Vendor Management

    Vendor management is the active engagement and oversight of recruitment vendors who are hired to bolster the search process as needed. Effective vendor management enables UVA to spend advertising and search dollars wisely, get a fair return, and align the goals of vendors with your search objectives.

    Our Services

    • Identify potential vendors
    • Drive the vendor selection and negotiation process
    • Monitor vendor performance and raise issues proactively
    • Facilitate vendor administration

    The Outcomes for Our Customers

    • Support to identify vendors and steward them through the UVA procurement process
    • Pre-approved, competitively priced sourcing options
    • Vendor invoicing coordination with your budget resource
    • Decreased recruitment expenses

  • Program Consultation Services

    Program consultation is coaching available to UVA organizations on a variety of topics that matter throughout the recruitment process. When the conversation turns to compliance or relocation and accompanying partners, Talent Recruitment is there to provide services as needed. Effective program consultation advances UVA’s objectives, avoids compliance risk, and empowers hiring managers to handle questions about bonus, relocation, and dual career support, while maintaining an exceptional candidate experience.

    Our Services

    • Improve compliance strategies
    • Facilitate employee referral programs
    • Advise on sign on and retention bonus recommendations
    • Support relocation assistance (coordination with Solution Center)
    • Facilitate accompanying partner assistance (coordination with Dual Career)
    • Provide leading practices to hiring managers and search committees

    The Outcomes for Our Customers

    • Employee Referral Program
    • Relocation assistance support
    • Retention/Sign on bonus recommendations
    • Increased employee retention in first six months
    • Inclusive hiring strategies for a unit
    • More robust infrastructure to minimize recruiter administrative tasks to focus on recruiting

  • Hiring Support Tools

    Hiring support tools are asked for by our customers most frequently and should never need to be built from scratch. Proven tools make it easier to ask good questions, evaluate candidates consistently, navigate hiring rules, and stay current with recruitment best practices. Keeping core tools current is the primary way to create a consistent recruitment experience for candidates and enable hiring managers to confidently select the best candidate for their organization.

    Our Services

    • Develop and maintain interview guides
    • Provide evaluation matrices
    • Develop and maintain workplace assessment alternatives
    • Provide international hiring process guidance
    • Maintain evolving best practices guide

    The Outcomes for Our Customers

    • Practical tools to enable the recruiting process
    • Tips, best practices, and training for interviewing
    • Pre-employment skills tests

  • Flexible Hiring Solutions

    Flexible Hiring Solutions focuses on understanding the workforce needs and works creatively to close short term gaps. By leveraging technology and collective resources, we work to create agility in staffing models. Flexible hiring execution enables the organization to tap into new sources of talent, shift the staffing mix (across employee types) over time and reduce the cost of getting work done. UVA is, thus, better positioned to meet the evolving work expectations of the next generation of talent.

    Our Services

    • Develop flexible hiring plans aligned to your broader workforce planning strategy
    • Mobilize specialty recruiting efforts to meet your needs in the following areas:
    • Temporary Staffing & Contingent Workers
    • Student Hiring & Internships
    • Wage Hiring
    • Monitor flexible hiring effectiveness and propose course corrections as needed

    The Outcomes for Our Customers

    • Increased ability to meet fluctuating workforce needs with flexible workers and increase number of rotational placements
    • Agile staffing plans
    • Experienced staffing team focused on hiring needs
    • Proactive sourcing to attract the best candidates
    • Rapid job postings
    • Quality, vetted candidates for interviews

  • Pipeline Programming

    Pipeline programming is the process of proactively establishing intentional relationships to develop sources of potential talent for planned future positions or areas of anticipated workforce shortages. Pipeline programming is a data-driven discipline that is dynamically linked to your workforce plan. Effective pipeline programming increases the number of qualified candidates in the candidate pool and reduces the amount of time it takes to fill urgent needs within teams.

    Our Services

    • Prioritize, establish, and maintain relationships with sources of potential talent
    • Develop new talent pipelines
    • Build integrated local, regional, and national partnerships for talent
    • Design and administer programs that improve the effectiveness of flexible hiring solutions (e.g., Super Temps)

    The Outcomes for Our Customers

    • Healthy working relationships with key external organizations
    • Ready pools of qualified candidates
    • Proactive support today aligned to your future hiring needs
    • Flexible hiring programs that enhance the likelihood of placement success and acceleration through the UVA learning curve for program participants

  • Dual Career Services

    Dual Career Services assists UVA faculty and staff’s spouses and partners who are seeking employment in the Charlottesville area. While we cannot guarantee placement, we offer a variety of resources to support staff spouses and partners in their job searches. When done well, Dual Career Services may be the difference between your top choice for a position accepting their new staff role at UVA or declining the offer. Also, it is a visible first impression of the UVA culture and desired employment experience.

    Our Services

    • Evaluate and prioritize referrals
    • Conduct initial conversation and point referrals to available resources
    • Provide advice and periodic updates to hiring managers
    • Develop UVA and Charlottesville specific resources (staff and candidate guides, moving to Charlottesville, etc.)
    • Author content and contribute to dual career website resources

    The Outcomes for Our Customers

    • Focused support for UVA staff spouses and partners seeking employment
    • Warm introductions between hiring organizations and candidates, where appropriate
    • Practical tools and links to resources to enable the dual career hiring process