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ISSS Consultation

If your department expects international candidates in the applicant pool for your tenure/tenure-track/long-term teaching position, please consult ISSS before running your recruitment advertisements.

• ISSS can review your advertisement to ensure required elements are included in the advertisement if the candidate hired requires permanent residency status.
• ISSS can meet with department staff and your prospective international candidates to discuss ISSS services, the permanent residency application process, and whether permanent residency sponsorship is possible for the position.

Recruitment Process

Conducting recruitment that complies with U.S. Department of Labor guidelines will facilitate a smoother permanent residency filing process for your international hire in a long-term teaching position. The regulations for labor certification require that the employer advertised and recruited for the position in an online or print national professional journal such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and made the position available to U.S. applicants on the same basis as international applicants.

• The department must go through the normal procedures that would be followed for recruiting for any similar faculty positions.
• The department must show that the international applicant was chosen pursuant to a competitive recruitment and selection process, through which the individual was found to be more qualified than any of the U.S. workers who applied for the job.

Recruitment Advertisements for Teaching Positions

• Include a job title.
• List the degree required and area of specialization.
• If you are willing to hire people who are ABD, you must state that in the advertisement.
• Include a clear enumeration of job duties and job requirements.
• Do NOT list preferences; they are seen as equivalent to requirements.

Recruitment Advertisements for Research Positions

Contact ISSS.