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

The Hiring Experience is a two-year effort to accelerate successful hiring and improve employee retention at UC Davis Health. This multi-pronged initiative includes partners in UC Davis HR, Health IT, Operational Excellence, Experience Design — and eventually all hiring managers. With improvements starting now, the plan calls for addressing all steps in the hiring process, from opening a job through onboarding.

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

• While the initial work is occurring at UC Davis Health, these improvements will be coming to the Davis campus in the near future, after ample notice and feedback from stakeholders.

We've Heard You!

This work is critical in providing tomorrow’s health care today. 

• More from Tammy Kenber, Chief Human Resources Officer

How We're Elevating Hiring for Lasting Starts

In 2023, UC Davis Health grew its workforce by more than 10%, which is tremendous 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. Here's how The Hiring Experience plans to address them:

Measurements of Success

• Reduce time to hire by 10% by end of FY 2024

• Establish continuous improvement business processes and data tracking

It's easy to identify the problem — too many systems, steps and hands involved — but we've never coalesced around the solutions. We're seeking commitments on the future state because it's going to take all of us to make it a reality." 
– Jim Hankins, Executive Director for the Shared Services Organization

Timeline

Updated 11/03/2023

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Improvement Efforts Underway

The Hiring Experience will address a variety of policies, procedures, technologies and employee training. The first of our improvement efforts are already rolling out. You can track progress using the scorecard below, which will be updated weekly. 

• The Hiring Experience Scorecard (Updated 11/07/23)

• A few key updates include:

  • Info sharing sessions with UC David Health leadership and teams are in progress. The Hiring Experience team presented at the Medical Center Management Forum (9/25), the HR Managers Meeting (10/12), the HR All Staff Meeting (10/23); and upcoming sessions include the Ambulatory Care Work Group (11/2), the UC Path Advisory Board (11/2), the Quarterly SSO Governance Meeting (11/6), the FOA Council (11/16), the Vice Chair Research (VCR) Meeting (11/16), the Administrative Management Meeting (ADMAN) (11/16) and the HR Advisory Council (HRAC) (11/30). We also initiated The Hiring Experience awareness communications to UC Davis HR Advisory Campus stakeholders (10/25).  

  • The THX Campus Advisory Committee was established to provide guidance and input that ensures campus interests are considered and that we’re realizing a customer-focused approach to full-cycle recruitment improvements. The first meeting is scheduled for November 8, 2023. 

  • Several rapid improvement projects to improve the end-to-end hiring process are in progress. 

    • Interview process improvements are being identified.  

    • Job description standardization work focused on defining minimum qualifications for the top 10 job descriptions at UC Davis Health. Custodian, Ambulatory MOSC 2, MOSC 3, MOSC 3 Lead job descriptions are being reviewed and finalized. CN2/CN3 job descriptions are being drafted.  

    • Talent Acquisition Improvements (See All) 

      • Vacancy Approval Process  

      • Department Assignments Search Tool- UC Davis Health 

      • Website Improvements and Email Templates 

  • Job description management implementation has started with UCOP and our Campus and Health partners which will facilitate workflow improvements and foster job description standardization across UC Davis; working sessions begin Oct. 10 and a Campus Advisory Committee will commence in late October.  

    • Job Request Management will be managed by JDXpert, rather than AggieService, for Health. Campus will continue to use AggieService. 

    • For clarity and consistency, HR will adopt the terms "Job Description" and "JD" in favor of "Position Description" and "PD". These changes will be reflected in future communications, policies, procedures and in the software. 

  • Current state and future state process mapping for identified staff types is in progress, building upon the work done last year and recently in May 2023. 

  • Given that an application tracking system will not be fully implemented until FY 2024-2025, HR, IT and hiring manager leaders aligned on a transitional state process flow which included 29 proposed process changes and developed service level agreements and turnaround times for key handoffs. The process team will be implementing many of those changes in the next several months to achieve improvements in candidate and hiring manager experiences and reduce time-to-hire. 

  • The job description system implementation of the JDXpert application is underway with UCOP. The build and configuration team, comprised of campus and Health Compensation and HR application support resources, is in the middle of a 12-week development phase for JDXpert with an emphasis on standardization.

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  We look forward to providing future updates and announcements as we make progress in decreasing Time-to-Hire and improving the Candidate and Hiring Manager experiences.
  
  Scorecard Archive

 

Onboarding Satisfaction

 

Job Description Standardization

 

Benefits Support and Services​​​​​

 

Talent Acquisition Improvements

The Hiring Experience Supports the 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. We're using customer feedback to realize solutions that better serve current and future employees and the people who hire them. 

Clinical Strategic Plan

Get Involved

The key stakeholders in this effort include UC Davis HR and UC Davis Health IT, Operational Excellence and Experience Design, but we're always looking for more partners and good ideas to improve things.

• Email hr@ucdavis.edu with any questions and find out how you can get involved.

FAQ

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