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Policy for Selection and Contracting of Persons

La CEU Selection Policy is based on a set of Principles used for all the selection processes in our Centres. These Principles are inspired by Values that define CEU in all its Excellence: Quality, Transparency, Objectivity and Meritocracy and these are organised as follows:

Generally speaking, the Selection Policy is based on a series of recognised practices used to Evaluate Individuals in the context of the workplace. These practices include:

1. A management system to consolidate compliance with Data Protection Act (LOPD 15/1999).
2. Incorporation of an access protocol for professions and/or activities that involve regular contact with minors, in compliance with Act 26/2015, of 28 July, amending the child and adolescent protection system.
3. Advertising and broadcasting of vacancies, following transparency and universality criteria.
4. Internal advertising of vacancies, to favour horizontal and vertical mobility of CEU employees.
5. Appropriate candidacy competition in processes, to facilitate the selection of the best candidate.
6. Full and objective evaluation of the candidate (technical, behavioural and language), following merit-based standards such as qualifications, abilities, knowledge and competencies, as well as ability to adapt to environment.
7. Training of assessment staff and use of tested evaluation tools and techniques, meaning that decision-making is driven by formal rules that minimise subjectivity.
8. Design of the Selection System following quality standards, defining procedures, describing processes and assigning responsibilities in each stage of the selection processes.

The main focus of the Objectives of the CEU Human Resources department is its search for the best professionals with language skills and a global outlook that are competent with new technologies and whose values are in tune with those of our institution.
These Objectives are compliant with the second priority of the 2014-2016 Action Plan: supply the Institution with an excellent high performance team that is motivated and shares the Foundation's mission, enabling it to become one of Spain's top education and training providers and expand internationally.
On an operational level, CEU's General Contracting Process defines criteria, guidelines and decision-makers in the selection processes and affects all the Centres and groups. This process is structured on the following points:

1. Determination of need.
2. Description of the vacancy and definition of the evaluation criteria.
3. Advertisement of the job offer, internally and externally.
4. Evaluation.
5. Selection decision.
6. Incorporation and welcoming of the new employee.

Under this general framework specific selection procedures have been developed for specific groups or Centres where required. Thus, three specific procedures are applied to centres and groups where needed, based on individual requirements. These are:

1. Teaching and research staff Selection and Contracting Procedure CEU San Pablo University..
2. Teaching and research staff Selection and Contracting Procedure in CEU Cardenal Herrera University.
3. Teaching and research staff Selection and Contracting Procedures in CEU Abat Oliba University.

In conclusion, CEU's Staff Selection System aims to attain the aforementioned Objectives, facilitating the optimum development of staff selection processes, adapting to the principles outlined and emerging socio-educational needs and strengthening alignment with our values and ideology.

Governance Rules

San Pablo CEU University Foundation aims to fulfil the apostolic aims of its founding organisation, the Catholic Association of Propagandists, through the work it promotes and manages. As an ecclesiastical organisation, the Catholic Association of Propagandists aims not only to achieve its aims but also to do so through the use of decision-making structures and procedures that reflect its Christian ideology.

These Internal Governance Rules aim to help San Pablo CEU University Foundation to better meet its foundational aims.

The CEU is a non-profit educational and charitable institution, committed since 1933 to society, to the planet and to the future. At the CEU we have been promoting initiatives for the development and advancement of society for almost a century, directing our efforts towards the common good, seeking to establish the foundations for a humanistic economy. In these efforts, the Teachings of the Catholic Church has inspired and continues to inspire the CEU in its work to promote a model of development that respects people and the environment, in which the fundamental virtues are at the core of the economic paradigm.

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At the CEU we construe sustainability as the adaptation of the rates of extraction, production and consumption of resources to the speed of their regeneration. A system is sustainable when the rate of extraction, production and consumption of resources is equal to or less than their rate of regeneration. For the CEU, the promotion of sustainability involves making a number of assumptions:

• Sustainability is developed under the pillars of a free market economy. Neither interventionism nor the planned economy are necessary factors or models; sustainability is possible within the framework of the free market economy thanks to production and consumption models such as the circular economy.
• People, not environmentalism, are at the centre of the paradigm. On the one hand, because "in development initiatives, the principle of the centrality of the human being, who is the primary bearer of the duty of development, must be preserved. What matters most is the improvement of the living conditions of individual people [...]" (Benedict XVI). On the other hand, because the reason for preserving natural resources is not to slow down the progress and development of humanity, but to ensure that we do not destroy the source of resources we are given to fulfil our human yearning to build, improve and progress.
• “For the human family, our home is the earth, the environment that God the Creator has given us to inhabit with creativity and responsibility. We must care for the environment: human beings have been entrusted to care for it and cultivate it with responsible freedom, always having the good of all as our guiding criterion”. (Benedict XVI)
• Sustainability transforms, but does not annul, the accumulation of goods, which ceases to be seen as an accumulation for the present and becomes a duty of responsibility towards others: previous generations (past), who left the resources that today are a source of wealth, and future generations (future), who must also be able to enjoy those same resources.
• Sustainability transforms, but does not annul, the concept of economic freedom and enterprise, which is no longer understood as the ability to obtain maximum profit, maximum utility, and the maximum sum of total goods for the organisation or for me as a consumer (libertarianism), but rather as an external commitment to others (common good).

Putting an end to hunger, safeguarding our planet's resources, building fair societies, guaranteeing equal opportunities... The great global challenges we face are many. This page is a sample of CEU's mission and its efforts to achieve sustainability faithful to the Teachings of the Catholic Church and in line with five of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the United Nations.

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