[nfbmi-talk] the nationwide search for tc director

[joe harcz Comcast]

The Nationwide Search for Lisa Kisial

 

 

Wow after my signature line find how Rodger’s went on a nationwide search to replace Christine Boone at the Training Center. And miracle of miracles he and the rather informed interview panel found Lisa Kisial right in our own backyard.

 

Shoot I’m surprised though that Rodgersdidn’t go to Canada for a new TC director, or at least Dublin Ohio.

 

It’s also interesting though that at least Lisa has some sort of background in VR, including credentials and all that. Yet, the three people including Rodgers interviewing her don’t.

 

You know ladies and germs sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up.

 

Joe

 

 

>From July 18 2013 Commission Meeting

 

 

 

 

 

1                        MS. MOGK:   Okay.  How about number two, status

 

2        of the training center director appointment?

 

3                        MR. RODGERS:   Very pertinent, very current

 

4        topic.   We are in the process of conducting interviews on who

 

5        will be the permanent director of the training center.

 

6        Interviews are scheduled for tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday.

 

7        We're interviewing seven or eight candidates who made the

 

8        final cut.   The original process started out with about 200

 

9        applications.   Then there's a thing called NEOGOV that's with

 

10        the Department of Civil Service where they look at initial

 

11        qualifications.

 

12                        For example, if one of the qualifications to

 

13        have this job were to have a master's degree and an individual

 

14        didn't have a master's degree but only had a bachelor's

 

15        degree, then they wouldn't make that first cut, and NEOGOV

 

16        would automatically take them off the list, and then they

 

17        present us with a list, and I believe the first cut list that

 

18        we had was 48, 49, 50, thereabouts.    We then cut it down to 10

 

19        candidates who we thought had superior credentials.     I and key

 

20        staff reviewed that material, and then we scheduled interviews

 

21        for those 10.   Since the interviews were scheduled a little

 

22        while ago, one individual has withdrawn their application, and

 

23        a second individual, only the last day or two has this

 

24        happened, but the second individual took another job.     So we

 

25        still have eight candidates.    They're being interviewed



 

 

 

 

 

1        Friday, Monday and Tuesday.

 

2                        MS. MOGK:   Questions, comments?   Can we inquire

 

3        who's doing the interviewing?

 

4                        MR. RODGERS:   The interview panel is made up of

 

5        myself, Mr. Pemble, who is my deputy, and Margie Holben (ph)

 

6        who's from the department and who's one of our HR specialists.

 

7                        MS. MOGK:   Okay.  No other questions?

 

8                        MS. BARNES-PARKER:   I have one.   So once you do

 

9        these interviews, the eight you have now, what amount of time

 

10        are you going to be giving that final decision?

 

11                        MR. RODGERS:   It'll be a short period of time.

 

12        Because what we'll do is every candidate is asked -- the way

 

13        the interview works is the individual is brought in front of

 

14        the panel, there are questions that have been put together by

 

15        staff and the HR experts because of certain questions you can

 

16        and cannot ask under civil service rules, and as such we did a

 

17        draft of questions.   We got input from the HR people as to if

 

18        there were some we shouldn't be asking and some we should be

 

19        asking.

 

20                        And everybody will be asked the same questions.

 

21        The answers will be taken down by the three people that are in

 

22        the panel, and then we'll all gather together, and we'll do a

 

23        review of all that information.    And then we'll make a

 

24        selection, and then at that point we'll do a write up and

 

25        offer the position to the chosen candidate.



 

 

 

 

 

1                        MS. BARNES-PARKER:   Thank you.

 

2                        MS. MOGK:   All right.   The next item is the

 

3        training center business plan and the status of that.

 

4                        MR. RODGERS:   It's kind of on hold, and for an

 

5        obvious reason I think at this point, until we have a

 

6        permanent director.   There was some preliminary discussion

 

7        with Lisa Kisiel, who's our acting director, that at that

 

8        point she and I, in consultation with a couple other staff

 

9        members, decided to not go forward with what might become her

 

10        proposed or draft management plan until we had selected a

 

11        permanent director.   I don't think it would be appropriate to

 

12        have the acting director propose and recommend an operational

 

13        plan for the training center and then the new person, if it's

 

14        not that acting director, is stuck with somebody else's plan.

 

15        So it's on hold, at least for a little while.

 

16                        MS. MOGK:   Any questions or comments in that

 

17        regard?   Okay.  Well, let's go on to the overview and

 

18        discussion of the State Plan.