Episode 62: Revamping Recruitment and Hiring Processes with Catherine Burns and the Baltimore City DGS

Episode 62: Revamping Recruitment and Hiring Processes with Catherine Burns and the Baltimore City DGS

Catherine Burns, chief of human resources with the Baltimore City Department of General Services (DGS), recently joined the Public Eye podcast to walk us through how DGS revamped its recruitment practices to reduce vacancies and shorten time to hire for hard-to-fill trade roles in a competitive labor market.

Episode 61: Defining Trauma-Informed HR with Pamela Pine, PhD

Pamela Pine, PhD, founder and director of Stop the Silence® (a Department of the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma), recently joined the Public Eye podcast to discuss the concept of trauma-informed HR - what it means, its hidden impact on the workforce and the steps that public sector HR leaders can take to make trauma-informed HR the new standard in the public sector.

Episode 60: Working Toward Wellness with Jodi Outland and the Town of Cape Charles, Va.

Jodi Outland, director of human resources with the Town of Cape Charles, Va., recently joined the Public Eye podcast to chat about the Town’s Wellness & Health Incentive Program, or WHIP. The Town developed the program in 2023, to encourage employees to be vigilant about preventative care and to adopt a healthy lifestyle, offering workers a financial reward in the form of contributions to the Town’s employer-funded health reimbursement arrangement.

Episode 59: Invaluable Opinions: The Town of Bluffton's Anni Evans Talks Intern Exit Surveys

Anni Evans, director of human resources with the Town of Bluffton, S.C., recently joined the Public Eye podcast to give us an overview of the Town’s intern exit surveys – which she says have become a standard part of the Town’s intern lifecycle.   Anni discussed the role of the Town’s HR team in creating the survey, the questions the survey includes and why, and how the feedback the Town receives figures to help shape its internship plan going forward.

Episode 58: Transforming City Hiring Processes with Shifra Goldenberg

Shifra Goldenberg, chief program officer with Work for America, recently joined the Public Eye podcast to talk about WFA’s upcoming Transforming City Hiring Processes workshop.    The free, virtual workshop is part of Work for America’s Talent Accelerator Program, and runs from April 21 through June 9. In our recent chat, Shifra told us about the Talent Accelerator Program’s origins, what this upcoming spring workshop will entail, and what’s on the horizon for the program in the months ahead.