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Staff Hiring Pause

This page contains essential information about the current staff hiring pause.

 

Alert

Effective February 19, 2025, UC San Diego is pausing hiring for core-funded positions. The pause will be in place until further notice, and may be amended if circumstances change. The campus will be notified of changes by email and on this page. FAQs on this page will also be updated in response to questions and as new information becomes available. 

 

Note

Academic Affairs employees, please refer to the 2025 Hiring Pause Exception Guidance for Academic Affairs page for detailed information, including the exception process for Academic Affairs.

Guidelines 

All staff recruitments on campus are subject to review and approval based on the following scope

  1. Core and non-core funded career, contract, and STE positions: VC Designee and CHRO approval required
    • Note: Contract and STE extensions (including those requiring the creation of Job Descriptions) are exempt from approvals
  2. Non-academic Student Employees, TES, and 3rd party agencies generally: Heightened scrutiny recommended

The following positions are generally exempt from the approval process:

  1. Non-academic Student Employees and temporary employees (including Temporary Employment Services and 3rd party agencies) will be generally allowed.
    • For TES employees, be prepared to answer the exception questions outlined below.  
  2. Health System and Health Sciences hiring as they already have a rigorous review process. 
  3. Staff Promotion Program opportunities will still be allowed as long as no backfill is planned but will be captured using HireOnline in the Exception process tracking.  

Exceptions and Exception process 

The approval workflow for the Staff Hiring Pause has moved to HireOnline.

We have provided step-by-step articles on the Requisition Approval Workflow for Requesters and the Requisition Approval Workflow for Approvers, both available in our Employee Center support resources. Going forward, please submit all approvals using HireOnline and following the procedure.

Note: For any requisition started using the interim approval process, please complete approvals using that process. 

If you have questions, please reach out to hr@ucsd.edu.