The university's recruitment processes will now be sharpened
Mid Sweden University is now starting extensive work to develop the processes relating to the recruitment of teachers and researchers.
For this reason, the Vice-Chancellor has decided to discontinue three ongoing recruitments for professors with immediate effect so that these too can be included in the development work.
"In connection with the latest edition of Aktuellt & Angeläget, we informed that this work would begin and we also had the issue up for discussion in connection with the Chefsforum last week. I feel that there is broad support for the need to sharpen our recruitment work. Our choice to interrupt ongoing processes certainly involves a certain amount of additional work, but since we have relatively few announcements of such important positions as professorships, we need to take every opportunity to include each individual recruitment, and this also applies to these three cases. says Anders Fällström, Vice-Chancellor.
The formal decision to discontinue ongoing professor recruitments will be made at the Vice-Chancellor's decision meeting (RBM) on Tuesday 3 December.
The purpose of the development work is to strengthen and improve the recruitment processes. The first step focuses on research-intensive positions and therefore initially includes professorships and assistant professorships. Management councils, faculty boards, employment councils, deans, heads of departments, subject representatives, the HR Division, student unions and others will be included in the work that is now being initiated.
"We know, for example, that we need to be better at actively identifying, seeking out and attracting internationally and nationally strong potential candidates at an early stage. We must also develop our ability to select the most qualified among the final candidates who remain in the recruitments we make," says Dan Bylund, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Media.
"At the moment, we have three ongoing recruitments of professorships, but these processes are now being suspended. The candidates who remained have been informed and I am of course sorry for any inconvenience that may arise for them," says Pär Olausson, Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences.
In parallel with the development of the recruitment processes, work is also being initiated to make the university even more attractive to stay at.