2011-09-21 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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months or so, but it's doing what it was intended to do, and they believe it's working well. Mr. De Lima asked whether, if he's "Joe Public" and turns in an application for a job and two months later wants to apply for a different job, he has to enter all the fields again. Ms. Toriano responded that it'll pull up the last information. It also allows the person to fill out an interest card so that all the positions that the applicant is interested in can be marked off and the system will send out a notification when the position becomes open. Mr. Takahashi further explained that in the NeoGov system, alerts will be sent to the user for the State and all other jurisdictional job openings as well, because they all have NeoGov. Alerts may be even gotten from any mainland companies that may have it. Ms. Toriano referred to the graph in the Recruitment and Examination draft report. Normally she would only focus on three years of information, but the division felt strongly that this trend, which shows a steady decrease in terms of recruitments, allowed them to look at the utilization of their resources, cut back on manpower, leverage technology, and still accomplish a lot more. So with that being said, Ms. Toriano allowed the graph to remain, but she noted that the Board may not see it in the future. This is just one way they monitor their workload and performance. Vice Chair Rowe noted that the graph shows that automation is taking care of a lot. He asked how would they know how many people got hired. Ms. Toriano responded that it's reported in the upper section. There are timeframes associated with giving the department a Iist. Once it leaves HR's possession, they don't have control over when the other departments do the interviews or if they don't accept the applicants. NEXT MEETING DATE The Board scheduled its next meeting for Wednesday, October 26, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. H