This is a worksheet from the Peer Professional Employer Toolkit.
Instructions: As a team, consider printing and using the following worksheet to plan your recruiting and advertising approach to hiring a peer professional.
How does your organization currently recruit for talent? How do you advertise open positions?
Based on your current policies and procedures, what might be useful to keep for recruiting and advertising a new peer professional position? What changes may be useful to consider?
Considering the populations that reside within your service community, how might you go about reaching members of your community?
If peer professionals with specific lived experience are not available for recruitment in your service community, how might you broaden your recruitment pool? Consider partnering with peer networks, community-based organizations, or local recovery coalitions to identify potential applicants whose lived experiences align with your service population and job description.
Consider other organizations that have successfully hired peer professionals. What have been successes and lessons learned from recruiting and advertising?
When you are ready to post the position, consider the following places to advertise:
- Your organization’s website and existing communication channels
- Social media
- County and state job boards
- Job Center of Wisconsin
- Local career centers
- Chamber of Commerce
- Probation and parole
- University and college job boards
- Civic organizations
- Local libraries
- Local recovery communities
