Every year, Denver Parks and Recreation (DPR) hires approximately 1,500 staff to support. The DPR Talent Acquisition Team (DPR TA Team) is tasked with supporting DPR in the recruiting and hiring. To better address the high-volume hiring needs and ensure a successful overhaul to the DPR recruiting and hiring process, the team broke their effort […]
The team wanted to improve the Illinois Tollway’s hiring process that was 95% paper-based and would take over 10 months to fill a position. They were also facing a high turn-over rate, lack of technological assistance, and low applicant alignment to position needs. They created a Future State Map of what they wanted the process to be […]
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The hiring starts with the HR Contacts in the Colleges and Departments – when they initiate an FTE (Full Time Equivalent) hire by submitting a hiring packet. It can be a complicated process with many steps. Leadership chartered a team to streamline the hiring process and implemented some of the following improvement processes: Simplifying by […]
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At the Minnesota Historical Society, a kaizen event was conducted to reduce the time to hire a new employee. The team identified that the current state took 75 days to hire an employee (job posting to employee signed offer), and were able to reduce it to 40 days. They also reduced the task time from […]
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