In a move to encourage diversity among higher education faculty and staff, 28 New Jersey colleges introduced a joint employment database this week.
The New Jersey Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC), spearheaded by Princeton and Rutgers and accessible at www.njherc.org, provides listings of academic, administrative, staff and executive positions. Potential applicants can browse positions by region or institution and obtain job requirements and contact information for each opening.
"The hope is that it will increase the applicant pool in a way that normal placement of job openings in education journals will not," University spokesperson Cass Cliatt '96 said. "The type of people who read journals are people who are already in the world of academia."
Job search websites like Monster.com attract a more diverse readership than print publications like the Chronicle of Higher Education, Cliatt said. The University hopes that HERC will tap into this broader demographic of web surfers.
"A chef who is working in a restaurant and loses his job might just look for a job at another restaurant," Cliatt said. "It might not even occur to them that there is a position in higher education where he can apply his abilities and skills."
New Jersey colleges and universities must pay a membership fee for their job openings to be included in the HERC database.
"The fee varies based on the size of the member institution's student body," Cliatt said.
Cliatt noted that the larger institutions in the Consortium are not bearing the burden for smaller institution because smaller schools have fewer job listings to be added and maintained by website staff.
Michael Silvestro, vice president of Human Resources at Passaic County Community College, said HERC represents a remarkable cooperative effort between private colleges, public colleges and community colleges.
"I think the consortium will be a real benefit to the member institutions, and one of the advantages for a relatively small college like ours is that we will benefit from the name recognition of the larger universities like Rutgers and Princeton," Silvestro said.
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