Ensuring recruitment of new staff - a checklist

To recruit effectively you need to:

• „send a local recruitment letter to all new members of staff each month. Your local letter should highlight relevant local information or local reasons to join.
• „seek to ensure that the employer distributes information about UCU to all new staff
• „seek to ensure that UCU is mentioned in any information distributed by personnel to new staff, eg the offer letter, statement of terms and conditions, induction session
• provide departmental representatives with lists of new staff
• „divide up lists of new staff to ensure that a departmental representative or committee member contacts each new member of staff in person
• „send out a follow-up letter or e-mail to all new members of staff
• have a calendar of all staff induction meetings
• „attend all staff induction meetings
• „have a link to the UCU application form on your website: www.ucu.org.uk/join