From the period of application to the termination of employment, the HRD Office interacts directly and indirectly with the individual.
It was in 1986 that the Personnel Office was created. These centralized functions that were previously performed independently by various departments. Then in June 2003, the unit evolved into a more strategic HRD Office.
Recruitment, selection and placement activities constitute a major part of the services. The HRD Office is the face of the institution to one who has decided to submit an application to work in Saint Louis University.
This is a challenge for the HRD team to live up to the values that the university promotes and to what the stakeholders expect. The selection of personnel for placement to existing vacancies is based solely on merit (qualifications) and fitness (aptitude, competency, ability and personality) to perform the work requirements as stated in the job description.
The HRD Office coordinates with various departments for the performance evaluation of the teaching and non-teaching personnel numbering an average of 1,500.
This activity provides the objective feedback to the head of office and to the incumbent. This information is vital to decision making with regards to employment status, promotion or employee development.
Administrative employees have been able to attend seminars, workshops, and trainings in the recent years through the support of the Belgian government via the VLIR PIUC (Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad-Philippines Institutional University Cooperation) Programme.
Topics covered were on developing computer skills, enhancing customer relations, occupational safety and health, improving the work environment, and information dissemination on current health issues. The management group likewise experienced institutional management development activities.
The HRD Office assumes overall responsibility for the creation, maintenance and disposal of records of the employees and of the employee-related services and programs.
With this, the accuracy, completeness, and relevance of information and data are required. Under this service, the HRD Office is able to prepare employee lists, issue identification cards and employment certificates.
The HRD Office also serves the students by coordinating and administering the Working Scholarship Program of the university. This program is partly in answer to the RP-CICM Education Policy, from which SLU derives its general and specific objectives, "to look for ways and means to give the same chances to the children of as many disadvantaged families as possible."
An average of 320 students are able to avail of this scholarship every semester serving as working scholars, student assistants, assessment and enrollment helpers, overtimers and proctors.
Furthermore, placement services relative to the graduates and graduating students are available. The HRD office accommodates requests from companies to post their vacancies and to conduct campus recruitment.
All of these services are made possible through the cooperative effort of management and the rest of the SLU community. The HRD Office serves by taking the coordinating lead.
