HR goes electronic to make employee hiring process more efficient

How do you reduce the number of steps from 198 to 26 when hiring a new employee at Eastern Michigan University? You go electronic.

In a move to make the hiring process on campus more efficient, Human Resources will soon be using PeopleAdmin.com, an Internet service provider that has software systems uniquely designed to automate the recruitment process used in higher education and the public sector. The program — expected to launch in phases beginning March 14 — eliminates paper expenses and manual data entry, eliminates or reduces mailing costs, and reduces recruitment advertising costs and process steps.

ELECTRONIC EMPLOYMENT: Jada Wester, a personnel specialist in Employment and Recruiting HRIS, takes a look at the Web site where Eastern Michigan University employment applications will be handled, beginning March 14. The move to automation for job applications will improve efficiency in Human Resources and decrease the time it takes to fill vacant positions on campus.

"An online hiring system is part of our overall redesign of the hiring process. This is the implementation of the technical aspect of it," said Craig Reidsma, director of Employment, Compensation & HRIS. "Our ultimate goal is to eventually make the hiring process paperless."

Ultimately, job requisitions will be completed and submitted electronically, and routed through the appropriate approval channels. At each stage of approval, each contact will be notified via e-mail. Once received by Human Resources online, these available positions are automatically posted to the Web site. The use of online requisitions will speed the time for departments to create a requisition, while eliminating the need for Human Resources staff to enter data and manually post jobs to the Web site.

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