Nebraska "whole picture" recruitment: From paperwork to "people work" featuring the personic applicant tracking system

Approximately four years ago Nebraska began to take a serious look at e-rec ruiting 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 th e challenges of the future. The Recruitment Unit had already identified wha t specifically our customers wanted and what the market had available in st ate-of-the art applicant systems. We identified several goals that would al low us to change the emphasis from "paperwork" to "people work." We spent e ntirely too much time moving paper from one place to another, and we wanted to redirect that time to moving people into jobs.