The Surrey HR Partnership Project

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The Surrey HR Partnership Project

• PEG Action Learning Day
• 20th May 2003
• David Cooke
• Head of Personnel and e-champion,
• Mole Valley District Council

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Who to involve?

• Neighbouring authorities?
• County wide authorities?
• County wide public sector?
• What is the role for the private sector?
• Are you contemplating a Pathfinder Project?

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What are the determining factors in a
partnership?

• Trust
• Openness
• Honesty
• Appreciation of other views
• Sharing of resources
• Ability to maintain time frame

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So who did we involve?
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The Project

• To introduce a common e-recruitment process
  across the organisations with the aims of
• reducing the time to fill vacancies
• improving the service to applicants
• introducing a Talent Pool
• Becoming the Employer of choice in the area
• Retaining staff within the Surrey public sector
  and
• Promoting from within.

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What was our background?

• www.surreyonline.info
• www.surreyalert.info
• contributions of c5k into the pool for
  projects
• success in pathfinder bids.

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How was the project achieved?

• Project Manager appointed
• Project Team formed representing the various
  groupings

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How was the project achieved?

• Project defined
• objectives and constraints
• reporting schedule
• project duration
• strategic plan
• implementation plan
• business benefits and outcomes
• risk analysis

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How was the project achieved?

• Detailed tender specification prepared
• Tenders sought
• Private sector appointment made (Lead Authority
  with individual contracts)
• Project planning/monitoring undertaken

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How was the project achieved?

• Project Team reported back to organisations
• JGP regularly reporting back to Project Team
• Agreed IT Personnel standards
• Workshops organised for front-line staff
• Launch date agreed
• Future developments agreed

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The outcome!

• www.surreyjobs.info
• 24x7 availability of all job details
• on-line application forms
• 90 of info need not be repeated in applying to
  differing organisations
• Talent Pool
• Brochure pages
• links to sites used by ethnic minorities
• Single price

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The future

• Links to e-learning and staff development
• opportunity for developing jointly manpower
  planning
• JGP will be marketing our joint product.

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Our feelings

• Achievement
• (Pathfinder, within resources, on time)
• EXCITEMENT!!!!