• MyU self service

• Employee benefits

• Types of leave

• Safe Campus Policy, including personal wellbeing and mental health Help Compass resources at UMN

• Info from the Office of Human Resources (OHR) on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the workplace

Support services and benefits

Whether you are seeking support for yourself or others, please follow this guide for addressing concerns. There are a variety of services and professionals available to support a colleague or student who is in distress or facing challenges. It is best to direct them to resources, such as employee benefits,  the human resources professional for their unit, or the resources listed under addressing concerns. 

There are several resources available to support various people across the UMN: 

Student participants supporting others

• Boynton Health trains students to be Health Advocates

Faculty / Staff participants for students

• UMN Student Counselling Services: Urgent / Crisis Counseling 

• Boynton Health trains employees in mental health for students

• Office for Student Affairs resources for faculty/staff to assist students

  • The Red Folder: Indicators of distress and what to do

  • Care Team: Nonclinical case management to students

Faculty and staff

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health coaching or therapy

Addressing concerns at UMN

There are a variety of resources at UMN to address potential concerns for employees. Often the best first option is to discuss the issue with your supervisor, if it makes sense for your particular situation. When concerning behavior, conflict, or other scenarios occur in the workplace, consider following these options and steps, in order as you feel comfortable.

1. Discuss the issue with your immediate supervisor, as you feel is appropriate. 

2. Contact your human resources representative to discuss the issue and your options. HR offices:

   1. Office of Academic and Clinical Affairs (OACA) HR, which includes the Masonic Cancer Center (MCC)  and OACA College and School HR Contacts

   2. College of Science and Engineering (CSE) HR

   3. Hormel Institute HR

   4. University of Minnesota Duluth HR

   5. Or look up your HR contact

3. There are several ways to report misconduct, including: 

   1. Report Concerns or Misconduct related to employment, including sexual misconduct, discrimination, UReport anonymous reporting

   2. Report Research Misconduct

   3. Bias Response and Referral Network (BRRN) - responding to bias

4. If you are unable to resolve your issue locally, there are University-wide services

   1. Student Conflict Resolution Center

   2. Office for Conflict Resolution (OCR) for non-bargaining unit employees

   3. Active Bargaining Unit Contracts

Additional Resource: Managing Conflict module of the Supervisory Development Program of the UMN HR.

Affinity Groups & Staff Associations

Graduate student affinity groups | opt-in email lists for groups

Faculty/Staff Associations from the Office of Equity & Diversity

Faculty and staff associations from OHR

Find a job / Career resources

All positions are posted on the UMN portal, see Find a Job. Searching for cancer, oncology, or other key words often yields the best results since MCC has various cancer-related positions across the University, including directly at MCC. Note: There are sections for external candidates, students, and UMN employees. 

Layoff and Non-Renewal

See: Departure from the University

The UMN maintains a Layoff List for Civil Service and AFSCME employees who are laid off in good standing to be notified of similar position openings. 

Ongoing resources and professional development

• Working at UMN

• Supporting free expression

• Leading on all levels - professional development for people who are not supervisors

• Supervisory Development Program

Terms of employment

• Benefits

• Compensation and Classification

1. Creating a meaningful job description

Connect with your Human Resources representative to create a meaningful job description and for advice. 

Additional resources: 

• Writing a position description, UMN Office of Human Resources

2. Recruitment

Your Human Resources representative has standard places to recruit staff, such as Indeed, LinkedIn, and HERCjobs, in addition to the UMN employment website. All positions are posted on the UMN employment website. Information is also available on the Hiring Resources page on the Office of Human Resources. 

Consider posting your position in other locations appropriate for the particular position, such as professional associations, internal and external listservs, and in social media.

Additional resources: 

• Looking to hire a postdoc? UMN is part of a group of higher education institutions with a free Postdoc Opportunities Board 

• Recruiting a diverse, qualified applicant pool

• Recruiting underrepresented graduate and professional students

• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) recruitment best practices

• Getting the most from the search committee process

• Hiring academic employees 

• Policy: Hiring faculty and staff

• Online course: Talent Acquisition: Recruiting a diverse workforce (CCAPS)

3. Selection and interviews

Structure and consistency in the interview process is critical to ensure equity in the hiring process. Using standardized forms, questions, and evaluation criteria are important, as are referencing the job description and position requirements. Information to help you develop an interview guide for each open position can be found in OHR's Interview Guide. Contact your HR representative for additional support and information about evaluating candidates and standards for evaluating consistency for equity in the selection process. Skills Survey, our electronic reference tool, is used for reference checks (see Hiring Resources). 

Online course: Addressing implicit bias in search and selection processes

4. Making an offer and hiring 

Once you have selected your top candidate, it can be helpful to contact your human resources representative to verify the salary offer you hope to give. 

Resource: How to hire

5. Onboarding

Your HR representative will have standard onboarding procedures. In addition to this onboarding, work with your team to develop an onboarding for the team that the new employee will be joining. Setting up introduction meetings with key staff that the employee will be working with can be helpful to ensure the employee will get the information and connections they need to feel welcome and supported. 

UMN New Employees

• Your onboarding journey

• Deciding your benefits

• Resources for new employees

6. Performance management

As indicated in the Supervisory Development Course, performance management occurs all year long, not just in annual reviews. Good performance management occurs at regular intervals with ways to coach, mentor, and support employees, while also giving corrections as needed. 

Resource: Performance management

7. Offboarding

Offboarding occurs when an employee leaves voluntarily. Your HR representative can discuss offboarding practices in your unit. If you are considering dismissal that is not voluntary, be sure to connect with your HR representative. 

Resources: Offboarding for voluntary termination, retirement, or death of an employee

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Workplace

• UMN Office for Equity & Diversity Education Program 

  • ECHO - Equity Certificate Hosted Online

• UMN Office of Native American Affairs (NAA)

• UMN Human Resources - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in the Workplace

• UMN Diversity Community of Practice (DCOP)

• Medical School Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) Education & Training and Staff Advancing Diversity & Inclusion (SADI) 

• Understanding and Applying the Americans with Disabilities Act in the Workplace (Self paced course), UMN School of Public Health

• Birds of a Feather- Engaging Class and Team Diversity, UMN GPS Alliance, Office of Curriculum Internationalization 

Recruitment

• Recruiting Underrepresented Graduate & Professional Students (toolkit), UMN Graduate School

• Recruiting Strategies: Looking Under the Hood of the Employment Process (Recording, AAAC 2023, 30 minutes) Deb Rimmele, BSN, RN, OCN, CPC, Retention Specialist, Loyola University Medical Center

• The Competition of Compensation and Benefits: Keeping Up (Recording, ACCC 2023, 23 minutes) - workforce wellbeing, Tia Foster, Project Director, Northwest Medicine

• Addressing Implicit Bias in Search and Selection Processes (Online course)

• Talent Acquisition: Recruiting a Diverse Workforce, College of Continuing & Professional Studies (Online course for a fee)

Performance Management

• Manage Performance and Develop Talent (Online course)

• ECHO: Addressing Implicit Bias and Microaggressions (Online course)

• ECHO: Navigating Challenging Conversations (Online course)

• ECHO: Removing Barriers and Creating Access (Online course)

• Also see: ECHO - Equity Certificate Hosted Online

Supervisory and Leadership Development (UMN HR Talent Strategy)

• Supervisory development

• Leadership Competencies and Assessments

• Leadership Consulting Services

Workforce & Talent Management

• Strategic Talent Management (Online course)

• Workforce Talent Assessment and Planning (Online course)

Miscellaneous - General Professional Development Resources

• General courses / all other - take a look at learning.umn.edu

• Coursera for Minnesota free for U of M students, faculty and staff

• Professional development courses from the College of Continuing & Professional Studies