Developing A Recruiting Strategy

You are part of the team has been brought together to develop a recruitment strategy for your agency, a county Social Services Agency in a large and diverse urban county. Your charge from the Director is two-fold: develop a long-term recruitment strategy, and also plan for next fiscal year’s hiring cycle, when it is predicted that there will be a large number of baby-boomers retiring (roughly 8% of the current workforce of 200 employees, including an almost even mix of grades from Deputy Director down to custodial personnel). The Director has asked you specifically to:

• Determine where to advertise and what strategy may be best employed to get the best new hires;
• Decide how to develop an internship program to work with the local MPA program;
• Identify key factors in the labor force that will impact a recruitment strategy, and
• Consider whether to bring in temporary or part-time employees v. full-time hires.