Nebraska “Whole Picture” Recruitment: From Paperwork to “People Work” Featuring the Personic Applicant Tracking System

Abstract

Approximately four years ago Nebraska began to take a serious look at e-recruiting and how we might best serve the citizens of Nebraska. We faced not only the problem of an extreme labor shortage, but that our labor intensive method of matching “people to jobs” and “jobs to people” might not meet the challenges of the future. The Recruitment Unit had already identified what specifically our customers wanted and what the market had available in state-of-the art applicant systems. We identified several goals that would allow us to change the emphasis from “paperwork” to “people work.” We spent entirely too much time moving paper from one place to another, and we wanted to redirect that time to moving people into jobs.