Old Hiring Strategy

Trying to address priorities as outlined in the General Priorities document, and assuming that we need to expand staff, we're putting together a general plan that should cover the next year. The basic gist of it is to hire enough income generating positions up front that we will be able to fund more mission related (and non income generating) positions later on.

Another central idea to this is that we are considering adding several internships to the mix of staff. (These are short term positions that would be re-hired for every six months under our current practice.)

Below are several items, grouped logically, and in the rough order that we expect things might happen. Where we know the dates, they are indicated. There may be factors that affect the order in which we hire for positions. For example additional staff members may leave, or some positions could be funded by grants with specific time lines.

This is a work in progress. As we decide to implement items, we should incorporate them into the Hiring and Job Calendar.

As of Feb 15, 2007

This shows actual or approximate payroll hours for current staff (collective members, interns, and subsitutes). The exact number of hours each week will vary with interns and substitutes working more or less than average.

Hrs    Staff Member
===    ============
35	Alison
24	Cliff (s)
 1	Clout (s)
35	Dave
 1	Debi (s)
24	Elise (i)
35	Elizabeth
35	Jeff
12	Kathie
35	Liane
31	Martin
25	Matteo (s)
 2	Matthew (s)
35	Michael
35	Nathan
35	Richard
28	Rick
35	Shawn
22	Sophia/Selam (i)
32	Steve

• Total of approximately 517 hours per week on schedule.

Below, people leaving are shown with negative numbers indicating the number of hours. New hires are shown as positive numbers.

Changes in process

These changes have already been committed to. (Changes expected in February and March, 2007)

 28	Hire an Exploratory Online Sales Position (Sergio)
 24	Recycling Intern
 35	Hire a Sales Coordinator
-32	Steve leaves
-35	Nathan leaves

• Net increase of 20 hours

Production Coordinator

This allows Martin to focus on System Administration by hiring a production coordinator. Matteo's substitute hours would drop as we bring in a production coordinator.

-25	Matteo
  0	Martin to Sysadmin
 35	Production Coord

• Net increase of 10 hours

Prebuild Intern

This could be hired through an outside agency or by Free Geek

 24	Prebuild Intern

• Net increase of 24 hours

Thrift Store Intern

Rick has announced his retirement, starting in July 2007. We suggest replacing him with an intern to work alongside a Sales Coordinator.

 24	Thrift Store Intern
-28	Rick

• Net drop of 4 hours.

Education Coordinator

This job is heavily mission related, and is not planned to be directly income generating. It needs to happen when revenue streams have been increased enough to support it.

 35	Education Coordinator

• Net increase of 35 hours

System Administrator

Martin has announced a year long leave of absence for 2008. This would require us to hire a replacement position.

 35	New sysadmin
-31	Martin

• Net increase of 4 hours

Unanswered questions

These are areas from the General Priorities document that are not yet addressed.

• Facilities
• Printers
• Outreach