Program Description

  Recruitment and Selection

The Recruitment and Selection team is responsible for attracting, hiring, promoting, and retaining candidates for County departments and agencies that result in a highly skilled, competent, and diverse workforce. The Team engages in a wide variety of outreach activities designed to ensure quality and diversity in the candidate population to include recruitment planning, guidance, and advisory services to departments and agencies on selection and hiring. In addition, the Team conducts new employee orientation; administers reductions-in-force; designs and administers public safety promotional examinations and other employment tests; administers the County's Internship, Senior Fellow program, Position and Career Education program (PACE), Job Fairs; coordinates County transfers, demotions, promotions, noncompetitive reappointments, and retiree rehiring; manages the County's Disability and Veteran Employment Initiatives; provides selection guidelines training on interviewing and selecting employees; community and employee briefing trainings on the County's employment process and interview/resume preparation; reviews and validates all County compensation (wage equity, within grade salary requests, temporary promotion, promotion, and demotion salary requests), develops candidate qualification templates (minimum qualifications/preferred criteria), and validates candidate qualifications; and facilitates priority consideration placements.