Though in reality the search process is often iterative it can conceptually be broken into a 3-stage process of activities to conduct before, during, and after a successful search; the success of each stage depends upon the effectiveness of its predecessor and determines its successor.

Because there is a lot of information in the following pages, we strongly recommend that search committees coincide the time of review of each tutorial section with their procedural stage; that is, review “Before” before beginning your search, etc..