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Join us for the Office for Information Technology's Towne Hall Meeting on December 18, 2007. This two-session event will cover important topics, including a CIO search update, employee recognition, and IT recruitment challenges. Led by Naomi Wyatt and Art Stephens, the agenda also includes discussions on the IES Assistive Technology Team's efforts in ensuring accessibility and usability for disabled users within the Commonwealth. Lend your voice to ongoing improvements in IT recruitment and explore collaborative strategies to enhance career paths within our organization.
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OIT Towne Hall Meeting Office for Information Technology December 18, 2007 Session #1 - 8:30 Session #2 – 9:45
Agenda Presented by Naomi Wyatt and Art Stephens Welcome/Opening Remarks Employee Recognition CIO Search Update “Speak Up!...Ask the People Filling In For the CIO” IT Recruitment IT Occupational Study
Employee Recognition • IES Assistive Technology (AT) Team • Responsible for ensuring the SAP Enterprise system is accessible to the disabled community of end users employed within the Commonwealth enterprise. • Exhibits a high level of technical experience with various AT software programs designed to accommodate visual and mobility related disabilities. • Often sought out by Commonwealth entities outside of the Bureau of the IES because of their highly specialized expertise in the area of accessibility and usability for the disabled community. • Team members include: • Bruce Bickel • Mike Miedlar • Paul Furjanic • Sandy Marsiglia
CIO Search Update Art Stephens
“Speak Up! …. Ask the People Filling In For the CIO” • I really like the speak up correspondence. However, I'd like to highly recommend spell & grammer check before sending. • Why are meetings held in the breakroom? More and more OIT groups are meeting in the breakroom. I could understand if there were not any conference rooms available, but I have noticed meetings in the breakroom when conference rooms are available. Please address this issue. Thanks! • What was the result of the work done by the Rentention and Recruitment group? This was something that was supposed to have been completed by this time.
IT Recruitment Committee • Objective: To identify challenges pertaining to IT Recruitment • and Retention and provide recommendations for • improvement. • Key Recommendations: • Lift IT recency requirements – Completed • Elimination of oral boards and opening of exam periods indefinitely • - PR 7-8-9 IT classes –currently open “Until Further Notice” (UFN) and • oral boards eliminated • - Examination process for PR 10-11-12 under review • Streamline the SCSC “Selective Certification Request” process • - Online IT skills inventory created • - In process of creating supplemental IT specific form as an attachment to SCSC “Selective Certification Request”
Key Recommendations (cont’d) • Provide for online completion and submission of the application • supplement for IT classes – Completed • List life reduced from 24 months to 12 months – Completed • Develop a more robust IT internship program – In process • Ongoing: • Oversight committee created to contribute to implementation efforts, • monitor outstanding issues, and address new concerns. • Provides periodic status reports to the IT Steering Committee.
IT Occupations Study • Collaborativeeffort – OA C&P, OA OIT, SCSC, CW Agencies • Address recruitment and retention issue • Goals: • - Modify or create new job specifications that accurately describe the work performed • - Ensure competitiveness of salaries • - Clearly define the technical, non-supervisory career path within each series • - Enhance recruitment efforts • - Improve selection processes • Phase 1 – Validate core concepts and leveling near completion. DCIO, CIO and HR Directors reviewing definitions, examples of work, and changes by job family • Phase 2 – Review KSAs and METs – January 2008 • Phase 3 - Salary study initiated January 2008
Question & Answer Thank You
