2024-07-15 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board July 15, 2024 CHR. CABANAS: Okay, thank you, Sommer. Any success with LinkedIn? MS. TOKIHIRO: That one, we—well, I mean, she advertises on there but I don't know that we've gotten specific feedback that people have applied for positions based on those postings. That's got to be part of—we need to change the way we're soliciting feedback on the applications to see where exactly and specifically people are—got the information about the job and that caused them to apply. So, we'll be looking at that because we want I think we can ask a few more questions in the application process to get some clarification of a variety of things. So, we're going to be looking at that. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. And the other question I had is on a previous divisional report you mentioned ZIP Recruiter. What's happening with that? MS. TOKIHIRO: So, that was an initial 30 -day trial and they gave us 40 job slots. So, basically, for 30 -days we were able to, on a daily basis, identify which 40 jobs we wanted advertised through ZIP Recruiter. And, basically, what they would do is push our job listings to people that had advertised for similar openings. So, I'm not—and, again, because we need to change those clarifying questions in the application process, how people are finding us—we did initially see an increase in the number of applications that we received when we started that advertising campaign. Again, I'm not sure if that was all because of ZIP Recruiter or if it just so happened that we got this increase. But we did see an increase in applications but I wanted to explore other similar offerings through Indeed. We're also looking at radio campaigns because a lot of these recruitment sites—like ZIP Recruiter where they're sending out the job postings that's great. But that targets one type of audience. We need to make sure that we're reaching a variety of different audiences through a variety of different methods. So, we're exploring Indeed and looking at a partnership with them to see if we get different results. And then, also, looking at radio advertising. Again, that's not something that we've done recently, but we're trying to get the word out that way through a variety of stations. MR. KUNZ: Is the Zip Recruiter, I'm assuming, the 30 -days has lapsed already? MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes, it has. MR. KUNZ: And then, is the department in a position to pay for anything beyond—like, if you explore wanting to actually use those methods? Is the department—wrong word is "flushed" but does it have enough funds to cover that, for like a 6 -month period or something? MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes. We do have the funds—additional funds were added to the Recruitment and Examination budgets specific to advertising. So, that allows us to be able to try some of these different strategies and, certainly, if we found one that was successful, we could then renew for a significant I mean, several months, say. Page 10