2021-12-02 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board December 2, 2021 Another part of the recruitment process is a written exams. So, for certain position classes, we have designated that those positions require a written examination. Our staff will schedule the written examination dates for those who meet the minimum qualification requirement and conduct the exams. We have protoCOVID protocols in place now. Our written exams have been scheduled at the tennis stadium for—since 2020, Waylen? Since 2020, we've conducted written exams at the tennis stadium. Those examinations are highly confidential. They are multiple choice exams. We do verify that the person coming into the exam is the person who is on the application and once the applications are the examination is done, they are electronically scored. It's a multiple-choice exam. And those who pass the written exam are then placed on the eligible list. For the position classes that do not require a written exam, it's just a matter of meeting the minimum qualification requirements and then we—the staff will do an education and experience evaluation, which is another type of exam to determine the ranking of those applicants on the list versus the ranking on the list from the written exam score. OkayI kind of got sidetracked. So, they conduct the written exams, establish the list, they refer the list, and authorize the hire. Another part of what the recruitment division does is we go out and—it hasn't happened lately, but we participate in job fairs—career fairs. And I think that is a really important part of attracting people to work for government—to work for public to—for service. Right now, it is hard for us to compete with outside employers because our salaries are set by contract. But if—when we go out and promote, we're also promoting the ability to help people as County employees or government employees to do a service for employees for the public. We're promoting the benefit packages that come with public employment. So, it's a way to attract people to come in and apply for our jobs. And then, a small portion of what the recruitment division does is administer things such as the medical examinations, the physicals—pre-employment physicals. We work with the County physicians and the Administration to establish guidelines—minimum medical requirements that apdesignated class requires. I think that's about it. I'm sorry if I rambled, but I was just trying to think of as much as I could to give you as much information. CHR. CABANAS: So, there's a large area, Lee. Waylen, did you want to say something? MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yeah, I did. Iso just to—I didn't want to interrupt Lee but where we switched to paperless to NeoGov in 2011. And I also want to mention that our current Administration—and because of the times we're in right now with recruitment, we are experiencing a significant shortage in applicants and mostly in, pretty much, every class of work we're trying to recruit for now. Page 16