The Hiring Experience

Elevating our ability to attract, recruit, hire and onboard UC Davis employees for the future

The Hiring Experience is a multi-year effort to accelerate successful hiring and improve employee retention across UC Davis.

Our efforts are focused on all steps in the hiring process, from opening a job through onboarding, and we rely on partners in service channels, HRBPs and AOs, Health IT, Operational Excellence and hiring managers.

With streamlined processes, better data, smarter tools and training, we're turning the hiring process into a welcome and rewarding experience for all involved.


How We're Elevating Hiring for Lasting Starts

In 2023, UC Davis Health and the Davis campus experienced significant workforce growth during a time of enormous challenges.

Initial analysis of our full recruitment cycle — which included feedback from UC Davis employees, recruiters and recruiting departments — uncovered many opportunities for improvements.

Now, The Hiring Experience effort is working on solutions.

Current Challenges

Overarching Goal and Outcomes

  • Candidates do not know who to go to for questions or help​
  • Responses to candidate questions are not consistent​
  • It takes too long to get equipment

Enhanced Candidate Experience

  • More guidance and engagement through better communication​
  • Real-time status updates​
  • Improved onboarding and accelerated productivity

The process to hire one new employee currently requires:

  • Action from many employees across HR teams​
  • Multiple systems are part of the hiring process

Improved Processes and Tools

  • Streamlined end-to-end hiring process​
  • Standardized job descriptions​
  • Enhanced job description management and applicant tracking capabilities
  • Dozens of steps conducted over email​
  • Too many approvals and manual steps required per candidate​​

Better Experience for Hiring Manager and the HR Team

  • Reduced manual interventions and rework​
  • Greater visibility into candidate lifecycle and onboarding activities​
  • More reliable data and reporting capabilities​
  • Clear communication around best practices and actions needed

  • Measurements of Success
  1. Reducing time to hire
  2. Establish continuous improvement business processes and data tracking

Supporting the UC Davis Strategic Plan and Health Clinical Strategic Plan
 

TO BOLDLY GO: A Strategic Vision for UC Davis

Strategic Plan Goal 3 calls for “mak[ing] UC Davis a place of excellence for learning and working by supporting a culture that values the contributions and aspirations of all our students, staff and faculty.” We're using customer feedback to realize solutions that better serve current and future employees and the people who hire them.

UC Davis Health Clinical Strategic Plan

UC Davis Health's vision is to "deliver tomorrow’s health care today — the next generation, the next innovation, the next cure." To do that, UC Davis Health needs to educate and prepare a future-ready workforce and drive excellence in all we do.

The Hiring Experience will make significant contributions to this mission and vision, specifically when it comes to operational excellence and business process innovation.

Transformation Catalysts

Investing in the Future of Medicine“Digital Davis” (Digital Health, Telehealth, IT & Analytics Infrastructure)Integrated Research and InnovationOperational Excellence/ Business Process Innovation
Creates funding opportunities to support our innovators to design and test new models of care delivery, diagnosis, and treatment.Expands our ability to connect with patients wherever they are, conveniently and efficiently provide care, and ensure the best data and analytics inform every care decision.Links our world-class research directly to our clinical programs and provides unparalleled access to clinical trials for our patients and partners, ensuring discoveries are rapidly translated from bench to bedside.Drives efficiency, access, and throughput while alleviating capacity constraints to allow us to always deliver exceptional, efficient care.

 


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