The final step in the recruitment process is to hire the candidate you have selected to fill your vacant position. You will use pages located in Recruiting and Workforce Administration to appoint the successful candidate to your Job Opening.

NOTE: The majority of the appointment process will be the same for both new employees (never worked for the State of Kansas) and existing employees. Specific differences will be pointed out in the pages used to complete this process.

See below for a description of the pages used to hire the candidate you selected to fill your Job Opening.

After your candidate has accepted the job offer and their disposition status is set to Offer Accepted, you can begin the hiring process.

Select Prepare for Hire in the Take action column to access the Prepare for Hire page. Information from the position that is tied to your job opening appears. Next, you will enter the start date, and type of hire.

Click on the Verify employee ID hyperlink. Verifying the employee ID enables you to check whether the applicant is already in SHARP with an Employee ID before you create a new one.

When you submit the hire request, the system sets the applicant’s disposition to Ready to Hire.

The applicant's name will then appear in the Manage Hire Results group box on the Manage Hires page.

After completing the remaining screens in Workforce Administration and the applicant is hired, the SHARP system will automatically:

Sets the applicant’s disposition to Hired.
Sets the job opening status to Closed if the Available Openings is zero.
Updates the applicant record with the employee ID and the applicant status is set to Hired, if the type of hire is Hire.
Sets all other dispositions for other job openings for this applicant to Reject if the available openings is zero.
Sets the disposition of all other applicants associated to this Job Opening to Reject.