2022-07-18 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board July 18, 2022 functional area. Because the Board would be concerned about all 8 functional areas that the department is responsible for. Recruitment, right now, is a big thing for all the employers. You're all looking for the same quality applicants. If you're telling the Board that you're getting a lot of applications that's good. But if the data reflects that, most of the applications coming in are not being accepted that's problematic because then, your recruitment efforts, to me, need to be a little bit more strategic. In other words, if you need people who are support (inaudible) those are the individuals you're going to go focus on. You need civil engineers, then you need to do that. If you need clerical, you need to do that. It needs to be categorized so that you get those quality applications for those designated positions. So, it would give the Board, I think, more information that would help us too, when we need to discuss matters with you and the deputy. MR. LEOPOLDINO: Thank you. CHR. CABANAS: Because what it sounds like is you're getting a lot of applications and you folks are working your butts off—and it's taking a lot of staff time to screen it, but it—you may not be getting enough applications to refer to the hiring department and that's why you have 50 - something recruitments open because those positions are not being filled. And how do the departments feel at this point `cause it's been awhile already. So that—looks like the pressure is on HR, right? Yeah. MS. MATHEWS: But in defense of the department, my guess is part of this is COVID related where a whole lot of people decided working from home was, kind of, fun—and we could run out our unemployment. So, are you guys are getting stuck with a bunch of applications where the people their real goal is to be able to check off the box with unemployment and it's making you scramble in order to follow the criteria? But the reality is these people, really, are just after their unemployment till it runs out. MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yes, that's part of it. But I think if you all were able to see the past few job fairs and the recent articles that are coming out, people are not looking for work. I mean, it doesn't take much research for you to find that people are not looking for job fairs, they're not looking to apply for work that's not the case here. So, part of this, is I was going to mention that we're kind of re-strategizing. And instead of just focusing on job fairs and promoting all these vacancies we haveDHR is going to partner with all the departments and participate more in community events, so that the departments are highlighting what services they provide in the community, in addition to promoting the vacancies that they have. Page 19