2024-06-25 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board June 25, 2024 So, this is kind of a precursor step to that Professional Development Train—I mean, to the Professional Trainee level, so that when someone applies for a position after completion of the program, they'll meet the requirements for that. And then, that's the step to go to move forward in that career path. MS. MATHEWS: Okay, so I have a couple questions here. Is there a lesson plan or anything that's going to gauge what the person has learned, so that if there's the same position, different department—they're going to be able to slide in there? The kind of thing that you would get from the next two years in college, is that being replicated in such a way that the person comes out with something that's— MS. TOKIHIRO: Because there'll be a position description that's specific to the position that they're performing in—and that's why we want a specific mentor identified within the department, so that we can be documenting the experience so that—yes, they can put that on their resume and have all of that work experience counted. MS. MATHEWS: So, this is going to have to be a highly organized mentor to make sure that they keep track of all the various aspects of—that they the recruit person is going to get in this program. I'm a littleI guess I'm a little—I think it's great. Let's start there. I think this is awesome that you're doing this. I'm just concerned that unless you took the curriculum out of, say University of Hawaii and said, "This is what you're going to learn"—and make sure they do and that it's applicable for some other department. So you're trained in this department and it's an accounting position, but the only thing open is an accounting position over here with they are completely different in terms of how they function. So, it wouldn't be an issue if it was a gooda graduate degree. It might be an issue in terms of functionality—how they function MS. TOKIHIRO: So, for the position of Accountant, even though we have an accountant in five different departments, the class specification for accountant is the same across all departments. So, the specific PD—so details of the specific duties may be slightly different but, generally, allI mean, all of the accountant positions are going to have the same minimum qualification requirements, the same knowledge of an ability to requirements and duties that are generally described as appropriate for that class of work. So, I'm not as concerned about something like that. I'd more want to make sure that we're capturing the experience so that someone who qualify as a Professional Trainee in a variety of different positions and a variety of different departments to provide the broadest range of options. So, yes, people are going to have to be very detailed in the documentation of the experience that is being gained through the program. Because it could be that they gain experience, say, in the Planning Department—and then, end up applying for a position in IT or the Fire Department. Page 13