Hiring staff
The process for recruiting, selecting, and hiring prospective employees for classified non-union, contract covered, temporary hourly, and professional staff positions, including those positions that are professional staff project positions and contract classified fixed duration positions.
Candidate communications
Learn how Workday automatically communicates with candidates at various stages of the hiring journey. These communications help keep candidates informed and engaged.
Job application business process
The Job Application Business Process is the series of activities necessary to complete recruiting in Workday.
Preparing for and conducting the recruitment
Guidance on Equal Opportunity Statements, advertising options, and tips for creating inclusively worded position descriptions.
Interviewing
As a hiring manager or interview panelist, learn how you can best prepare and conduct interviews with your qualified candidates.
Requisition types and Create Requisition process changes
An overview of new requisition types and the Create Job Requisition business process.
Direct hire process – campus staff
The Direct Hire Process uses a Confidential Job Requisition to hire an applicant into a nonpermanent, intermittent, or professional staff temporary position without a competitive recruitment.
Reference checks
At least three references, including one from a current or supervisor, will help guide your final selection process.
Developing and extending the offer
After completing the recruitment and selection process, identifying the final candidate, and checking references, the hiring manager may extend a conditional offer of employment.
Extend and Revise Job Offer – Campus Staff
A step-by-step guide to receive UWHR approval prior to making a job offer, document the offer outcome, and advance the job finalist through the hiring process.
Prehire background checks
The offer of employment to UW staff positions must be made contingent upon obtaining a satisfactory criminal conviction history background check.
Recording the hiring process
Documenting the recruiting and hiring process, and activity disposition codes.
Hiring and recruiting policies
Information regarding employee relocation incentives, retiree rehires, employment of minors, and recruitment incentive payments.
Workday Recruiting
A modern, fully integrated recruitment platform that replaced UWHIRES in the summer of 2025.
Guidance on hiring and compensation increase pause
This webpage provides guidance on recruitment, hiring and compensation procedures for all staff, student and academic student positions across all departments, regardless of funding source.