{"id":3063,"date":"2025-11-17T13:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/equal-opportunity\/?page_id=3063"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:46:47","slug":"role-of-the-office-of-equal-opportunity-supporting-employee-recruitment-selection-and-hiring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/equal-opportunity\/role-of-the-office-of-equal-opportunity-supporting-employee-recruitment-selection-and-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Role of the Office of Equal Opportunity Supporting Employee Recruitment, Selection, and Hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Additional&nbsp;responsibilities of the Office of Equal Opportunity include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Investigating and addressing complaints of discrimination and harassment in service delivery and employment, and certain\u00a0retaliation\u00a0complaints regardless of causal connection to Protected Status.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reporting workforce representation data to the\u00a0University\u00a0leadership, Deans, Hiring Managers, University stakeholders, and state and federal enforcement agencies.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Working with University stakeholders to remove barriers hindering access to employment opportunities.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leading training and education efforts on civil rights compliance topics to support those involved in the employee recruitment,\u00a0selection, and hiring process. Examples of training topics and resources include: (1) Permissible Interview Questions; (2) Equal Employment Opportunity and Hiring; and (3) Addressing Discrimination and Pre-Discriminatory Behaviors in Hiring and Recruitment.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Office of Equal Opportunity does not administer talent acquisition activities. Please contact the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hr\/\">Office of\u202f Human Resources <\/a><\/strong>\u202ffor&nbsp;talent acquisition-related&nbsp;questions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional&nbsp;responsibilities of the Office of Equal Opportunity include:&nbsp; The Office of Equal Opportunity does not administer talent acquisition activities. Please contact the Office of\u202f Human Resources \u202ffor&nbsp;talent acquisition-related&nbsp;questions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4736,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3063","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/equal-opportunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/equal-opportunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/equal-opportunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/equal-opportunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/equal-opportunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/equal-opportunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/equal-opportunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3063\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/equal-opportunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}