Much of the agency’s workforce is retiring in the next five
to seven years, and some key positions will lose many employees all at once. To
prevent a crisis, FSSA is recruiting a large volume of people to fill the
positions that will become vacant in the near future. In addition to current
positions becoming open due to retirement, many new positions have been created
and approved, and these too must be filled.
My main project during this rotation was to source for one
particular position at dozens of schools and job sites. Thirty Disability
Claims Adjudicator positions are open, and they need to be filled as quickly as
possible. Because of this, I posted jobs as school and job boards based in
other states as well as Indiana, and opened the position up for all majors and
areas of study to get the maximum number of applicants. My other project during
this rotation was updating employee information in PeopleSoft, which helped me
get more familiar with the program and its capabilities.
The main lesson I learned at this agency was how important
it is to be aware of who is in your workforce and when and how they might
leave. If you don’t stay on top of this as an HR professional, you could end up
with a large number of vacancies in key business areas, and your business will
almost certainly be negatively affected. It was also interesting to learn
how difficult it truly is to get a qualified pool of applicants to apply for
one open position, let alone 30. To get 30 qualified applicants, we’d probably
need a few hundred general applications! This taught me that there’s much more
to hiring than simply going through applications and choosing the right
candidate – getting a pool of good applicants is a challenge all in itself.
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