Promoting a Position
Effectively promoting a faculty position is essential to attracting a strong, diverse applicant pool. This stage involves leveraging both University-supported advertising channels and discipline-specific outreach to ensure broad visibility and alignment with the goals of your academic unit.
Advertising Supported by Human Resources
The human resources recruiter will post the position to Diverse Jobs, Higher Ed Jobs, Indeed, Inside Higher Ed, and LinkedIn. In addition, hiring managers may also request their human resources recruiter to coordinate additional promotional opportunities, such as:
- An individual promotional post to our @WFUtalent social media suite (Instagram, Facebook, and X);
- A post on the University’s LinkedIn page, highlighting the position to an audience of more than 85,000 (and growing) followers; and/or
- A priority position in our biweekly #WorkAtWake Newsletter.
Toolkit: View the LinkedIn Recruiting Toolkit for tips on promoting open positions to your network on your personal LinkedIn page.
Downloads: Download one of the Social Media Recruitment Graphics to help promote your position on any social media platform.
Advertising Within a Discipline
Hiring managers, search committee chairs, and search committee members may wish to post the URL for the open position on their LinkedIn pages or on other discipline-specific websites or listservs.
HR Recruitment can assist with posting paid job advertisements, charged back to your department, if budget allows, on discipline-specific sites. The human resources recruiter on the faculty search committee or HR Recruitment can also help determine which approved sites comply with posting guidelines. For assistance, please contact wakejob@wfu.edu.
When sharing the position on LinkedIn, listservs, or other networks, be sure to use language that aligns with the official job description, which may vary based on the position.