Chef User Guide - restricted to IT

Get to know Chef

How to use Chef

What is Chef?

Chef is a user-friendly interface to RRU’s resource management system, which is called Unit 4. It will collect information about new resources - employees, contractors, guests, etc. - update the resource management system, and manage the creation of computer accounts. Individuals or hiring managers can also use CHEF to update existing records.

Workflow in Chef

Processes used to hiring employees differ from those used to hire contractors but both involve receiving financial approvals, job postings, interviews, and offers. When someone accepts an offer from RRU, the hiring manager or delegate will add a record to Chef, which starts a chain of events, following this workflow:

Employee types	Contractor types
Hiring Manager enters information about a new employee in Chef HR receives a notice HR reviews and approves the record hiring manager receives a notice Chef adds a new record to Unit 4 (this is the system of record) Chef sends information for the required record in Avanti, the payroll system	Hiring Manager enters information about a new contractor in Chef (no approval checkpoint) Chef adds a new record to Unit 4 (this is the system of record) Chef sends information for the required record in the Accounts Payable system

Computer accounts from Chef

The computer account creation process runs three times each day. There has been no change to the computer account creation process. The next step in the workflow applies to all records entered into Chef.

Employee and Contractor types

Chef sends information to the computer account creation process and on the next run, a computer account is created for the new person. This includes an RRU email address.
1. The hiring manager receives a notice when the computer account is ready so that they can:
  - communicate this to the new person at the right time, providing them with their username, email address, and temporary password
  - visit the provisioning page in Our People to ask for things the new person needs, like access to shared mailboxes, O: drive folders, elevated permissions in corporate software, etc.

Chef role definitions

Each person who uses chef is assigned a role. Some roles are decided based on your position at RRU, as defined in the resource management system. Others are assigned based on operational need. All roles determine what you can do/access inside the system. One person can have more than one role.

Roles	Purpose
User	assigned in Chef, this person is responsible for keeping their own record up to date (everyone is a ‘user’)
Hiring Manager	according to the resource management system, this person is responsible for a team and will add new records for new resources and edit existing records
Delegate	assigned in Chef, this person can access everything as though they are a hiring manager (except the hiring manager’s record)
Delegate for contractors	assigned in Chef, this person can access everything as though they are a hiring manager, but only for contractors, not for employees
HR	assigned in Chef, this person is responsible for reviewing and approving submissions of new employee information by hiring mangers and/or their delegates
Superuser	assigned in Chef, this person is a system administrator who can do everything in the system

What functionality exists in Chef?

This is a list of functions in Chef. We expect that Chef will be evolving for some time so this list may change often.

Menu Options
Create Resource	add a new resource record for an employee, contractor, or other
Directory	find a colleague to see their location on campus and phone number; connect with them on Teams
My Profile	edit your record to change your home address, see your position number and description/title
My Team	view your team’s records in one place
Permissions	assign roles to people in Chef
Position Approvals	approve submissions from hiring managers for new employees
Terminate Employment	disable the computer account and start the 30-day process of deleting it along with email etc., when someone leaves RRU this ‘terminate employment’ option does not automatically terminate records in other systems like HR, Avanti, Accounts Payable

What roles have access to Chef functionality?

Menu Options	You	Hiring Manager	Delegate	Delegate for contractors	HR	Superuser
Create Resource				contractors only
Directory
My Profile
My Team				contractors only
Permissions
Position Approvals
Terminate Employment