Search Committee Resources

Advertising

Please click on the links below for advertising resources:

• Mock Advertisement
• Advertisement Template
• Faculty Search Portal
• Faculty Search Portal Knowledge Base

The Faculty Search Portal is an important tool that enables users to manage, conduct, and review searches for faculty at all ranks, i.e. instructors, assistant professors, associate professors and full professors, within an easy-to-use Salesforce Application. It provides enhanced functionalities to users, such as the ability to generate downloadable end of search reports, the ability to upload and attach proof of advertisement and other relevant imaging, as well as data aggregation and visualization capabilities, which report on diversity tracking and additional key data markers.

In addition to placing a national advertisement in at least one journal for 30 days, we strongly recommend also placing ads in locations that target women and minorities underrepresented in medicine.  The following guide is a resource for search committees:

• Resources for Targeting Diverse Candidates

Search Committee Resources

Please click on the links below for search committee resources from Harvard Medical School (HMS), the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Harvard University (HU):

Harvard Medical School (HMS)

• To view the Faculty of Medicine Handbook, please click the following link to download the current handbook version and then navigate to section 5 entitled "Guidelines for Academic Recruitment": https://fa.hms.harvard.edu/FoMhandbook

Harvard University (HU) Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity

Please click the following link to view a website page with a library of resources regarding Best Practices for Search Committees: https://faculty.harvard.edu/recruitment-best-practices

This website includes:

• A downloadable pdf with current Best Practices for Conducting Faculty Searches
• Additional Harvard Resources that are geared towards disability, acceptable interview questions and a sample candidate evaluation sheet
• Background Reading and Resources including: 
  • Outsmarting Human Minds (OHM) includes podcasts and webinars on unconscious bias
  • Implicit Association Test (IAT) at Project Implicit
  • HERC's Search Committee Training Toolkit (HERC Membership Required) 
  • ADVANCE Program (National Science Foundation)
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Excellence Initiative (AACU)
  • Harvard University Facuty Development & Diversity Annual Reports
  • Implicit Bias Video Series (UCLA)

American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)

• To view the AAMC E-Learning Seminar entitled "What You Don't Know: The Science of Unconscious Bias and What To Do About it in the Search and Recruitment Process" please click the following link: https://www.aamc.org/what-we-do/equity-diversity-inclusion/unconscious-bias-training