Request Types

Recruitment

NOTE: One of the five request types below should be used to initiate an Open or Campus Only Recruitment which are competitive processes that seek a broad pool of qualified, diverse applicants to fill temporary (limited or BYA), partial year career, career, and/or contract appointments. [Also seeRecruitmentprocedure]

Establish New Position to Fill

• Newly created position within a division, department or sub-unit.
• No incumbent exists.
• Typically the result of new funding or assignment of new work.
• Request cycles through complete RMS workflow including Classification Analyst review.

Straight Replacement

• Position previously or currently held by another staff employee.
• The position was filled previously using RMS.
• An existing RMS position description (PD) is used to begin the request.
• No changes are allowed to areas of the RMS PD that might result in a classification change. Thus, this request type skips the Classification Analyst review in the RMS workflow.

Straight Replacement - Not Yet in RMS

• Position previously or currently held by another staff employee.
• No changes have been made to incumbent's job description.
• Position has never been filled using RMS.
• Request cycles through complete RMS workflow including Classification Analyst review.

Update to Fill

• Position previously or currently held by another staff employee.
• The position was filled previously using RMS.
• An existing RMS position description (PD) is used to begin the request.
• • Some changes will be made to the RMS position description that might result in a classification change. Thus, this request type cycles through the full RMS workflow including Classification Analyst Review.

Update to Fill - Not Yet in RMS

• Position previously or currently held by another staff employee.
• Some changes have been made to incumbent's job description.
• Position has never been filled using RMS.
• Request cycles through complete RMS workflow including Classification Analyst review.

Non-Recruitment

• Used to fill temporary (limited or BYA) staff vacancies only.
• Hiring Manager identifies the candidate for hire in lieu of the position being posted and advertised.
• Request cycles through complete RMS workflow including Classification Analyst Review.
• [Also seeNon-Recruitment procedure]

Waiver of Recruitment

• Used in extraordinary circumstances to fill career and contract appointments, as well as, temporary appointments expected to exceed 1000 hours in 12 months.
• Hiring Manager identifies the candidate for hire in lieu of the position being posted and advertised.
• Request cycles through complete RMS workflow including Classification Analyst Review.
• [Also seeWaiver of Recruitmentprocedure]

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