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Contact UsThe formal university position holds that employment is at the will of either the employee or Biola University. This means that, technically, an employee may resign from a position at any time with or without notice, and Biola may terminate employment at any time with or without notice. There is no promise that employment will continue for a set period of time, nor is there any promise that employment will be terminated only under particular circumstances. However, employees who are under formal contract, such as instructional faculty, cannot resign or terminate employment at any point in time, without any notice.
No employee or representative of Biola, other than the President of Biola, has any authority to enter into any employment agreement for any specified period of time or to make any agreement contrary to the foregoing. This policy will not be modified or affected in any way by employee benefits, including retirement benefits, available from Biola.
Employment Procedure
If the position is new, write a job description. If the position already has a job description, review its content and update the information as necessary.
Submit a copy of a new or a revised job description to Human Resources (attached to the Job Requisition Form).
Complete a Job Requisition form. Return the requisition, along with the vice president's signature of authorization and any new or revised job description, to the Human Resources Office, prior to holding any interviews with outside applicants or potential transferees from within Biola.
Note: Requisitions for staff positions in the Schools, the Divisions of Arts & Sciences, Student Development, and the Registrar's Office require the signature of the Dean, in addition to the Provost.
Human Resources will post the open position, unless the requisition indicates that the job will be offered to one of the department's present employees (usually a promotion or lateral move). In that case, posting would be dependent on the outcome of the internal offer.
The department may interview outside applicants only after they have completed a Biola employment application and completed a screening interview in the Human Resources department. Human Resources retains the original copy of the application. The department may choose to retain a copy of the application. Copies of applications should be treated as confidential documents and should be shredded when no longer needed.
Applicants who are presently employed at Biola must complete a Transfer Request Form and submit it to Human Resources, prior to any interview.
Note: an employee may informally meet with Human Resources or the hiring department to ask questions about job responsibilities and qualifications, without having to complete a Transfer Request Form, provided that the employee, alone, asks the questions (to help the employee to decide whether to formally apply for the position).
The Human Resources department will offer the position to the applicant.
Immediately upon an applicant's acceptance of an offer, a Hiring Authorization Form must be completed and submitted to the Human Resources Office.
All new employees are required to participate in a two-part training/orientation program. For further details regarding the orientation program, refer to section 2.36.
