HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONALS ARE FINDING REAL PROGRESS IN A DIGITAL WORLD

Winning the Annual Recruitment Battle: A CASE STUDY OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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Excerpt:"It became impossible to keep up with the filing and sorting of 2,000 new applications received each year. Reference letters, transcripts and entire applications were lost in attempts to pass information around to those who needed it," recalls John J.D . Rios, A ssistant Superintendent of Human Resources for the Kansas City, KS Public Schools (KCKPS).

Rooms of stacked boxes filled with thousands of job applications were no longer an acceptable solution for KCKPS. Like many schools still relying on a paper-based solution for their hiring process, continuous attempts at organizing the clutter of paperwork was quickly turning to nothing more than organized chaos. "We wanted to get organized but we were not willing to settle. We were already settled in our mounds of paperwork," Rios explained.

As a district consisting of approximately 2,800 employees, almost 1,500 of those teachers, providing for the education of nearly 20,000 students; the Kansas City, Kansas administrators wanted to be certain they were implementing the right solution the first time."

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