Advertising Position Openings
Advertising job openings allows KU departments to attract the most qualified talent from local, regional, and national markets.
When deciding how and where to advertise open positions, please keep the following points in mind:
- Create an advertising and outreach plan to ensure that a qualified applicant pool will be available and meets your unit goals.
- Unclassified and academic staff positions should appear in at least one print or online ad unless the department identifies more appropriate recruiting resources.
- Faculty positions must appear in at least one print or online journal publication with a national distribution. Please work with the Talent Acquisition Team to discuss available options or to learn about joint faculty advertisements for cost savings.
- Units are encouraged to use advertising resources that target their specific discipline area.
- Contact the Talent Acquisition Team to learn about JobElephant, a service that can provide data metrics (views & clicks) and job-specific recommendations for online advertising locations, helping departments better use their budgets while attracting qualified candidates. There is no additional cost for utilizing JobElephant.
Automatic Ad Locations
The University posts all faculty and staff job openings to the following locations without additional cost to the hiring unit:
- KansasWorks (State of Kansas Workforce Site)
- The Chronicle for Higher Education (Faculty, VP, VC, and other senior leadership openings in the higher education community, contact your SSC representative you want to feature a staff posting)
- Academic Keys (Faculty focused job postings)
- Insight Into Diversity (Focuses on diversity hiring)
- Higher Ed Jobs (Focuses upon all job types in the Higher Education sector)
- Circa/Local Job Network (Focuses job posting to multiple sites including community job boards with a focus on veterans and individuals with disabilities)
- LinkedIn (Basic posting, reach out to SSC for spotlight posting)
- Indeed (Basic posting, reach out to SSC for spotlight posting)
- Inside Higher Ed
- HERC Jobs (Higher Education Resource Consortium)
Advertising for Regional and National Searches
When a regional or national search is required for your posting, multiple locations and options are available depending upon outreach needs and available budgetary resources. HR has compiled a list of resources for Local, Regional, and National advertising. If you have any questions about the posting process, please contact your Talent Acquisition Team at hrrecruiting@ku.edu or by phone at 785-864-4946.