PeopleAdmin: Eastern’s New Job Applicant System
Step-By-Step Guide For Using the System as a Search Committee Member
Reviewing Applications – 5 Easy Steps!
1. Log in to People Admin at: https://jobs.hr.ewu.edu/hr .
Guest users: Human Resources will provide you with the guest user login identity and the password during the initial search committee meeting.
2. Once you login, you will see the following screen:
In this example, the user has logged in as a Guest User to review applications submitted for an Instruction & Classroom Support Technician in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department.
Click on the “View” link
3. The Applicants screen will appear:
Notice the blue tabs across the top
for Applicants, Posting Details, etc.
In this example, the screen shows the
Applicant screen.
If you’d like to review how the position was posted before reviewing the applications, skip down to Step 5 on the next page (“Posting Details”).
Note that the last names of the applicants have been redacted for privacy reasons.
You have several options for how to review applications:
· You can review each application, one at a time, by clicking on the link underneath each name for “View Application…”
· Alternatively, you can click the link for “View Multiple Applications”
Please note that you will typically review 3 documents for each applicant:
1. The application document – this link appears immediately underneath the name of the applicant,
2. Their cover letter – this link appears in the “Documents” column, and
3. Their resume - also linked in the “Documents” column.
As an individual search committee member, we urge you to review the materials online only, and strongly prefer that you do NOT printout any of the documents. Save trees, and help protect the privacy of the applicants, by avoiding printing out any of the applications, cover letters and/or resumes. It is understandable, however, that the search committee chair will printout one set of the applications, so that the committee can re-review the documents during committee meetings.
As you review the applications, cover letters, and resumes, you should complete a rating or assessment sheet for each candidate. This is a tool that you will develop as part of your search committee responsibilities (although HR may provide you with a template).
4. Review the Posting Details:
From the Applicant screen, simply click on the blue tab for Posting Details.
The following screen will appear:
This screen shot shows only the top half; scroll down (and go to the next page) to see the rest of the screen.
The first part of the Posting Details screen provides you with the classification title, the working title, salary range, and other basic details.
Further down on the screen (see the next page), the job duty summary and other useful information appears.
Posting Details screen – continued:
The latter part of this screen provides the department name, job summary, posting dates, and the documents that applicants were required to attach as part of their online application.
Please note that “DD2-14 Form” will always be listed as an optional document for veterans to submit if they wish to be given veterans preference.
Please carefully review the Special Instructions to Applicants section
as most application processes will require the applicant to provide a detailed cover letter wherein they are to explain how they meet the qualifications of the job.
Assuming the applicant has followed this instruction, your job in assessing their qualifications will be made easier.
5. When you are through reviewing the applications, cover letters and resumes, click the Cancel button, and the following screen appears:
Click the Confirm Cancel button,
and then click on Logout.
You’re done!