KPLU Local News
(2009-09-02)
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OLYMPIA, WA
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It cost Washington taxpayers millions of dollars to build, but never worked properly. Now the state is abandoning its troubled E-Recruiting program. Instead the plan is to contract out the service. KPLU's Austin Jenkins reports.
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E-Recruiting launched in the fall of 2006. It was part of a six-million-dollar state Human Resources upgrade. The vision was a one-stop-shopping website for job seekers. In the end, a large number of state agencies never posted their job openings on the site and only forty percent of state hires were made using E-Recruiting. Ginny Dale with the Washington Department of Personnel says it's time for a new solution.
Ginny Dale, WA Department of Personnel: "We've been using the system for three years and rather than continuing to invest and try, improve it, we're going to move in a different direction and go with a hosted provider."
That's a third-party vendor who will manage on-line recruiting and hiring for the state. Dale says contracting out the service was not an option when the decision was made to build E-Recruiting. The current system costs 900-thousand dollars a year to maintain. It's estimated an outside vendor will charge between 50-thousand and 200-thousand dollars a year to provide the service. I'm Austin Jenkins in Olympia. © Copyright 2012, N3
