Personnel Department Report - June 2019

Important Note: Given the small sample size to work with, these stats may not carry much meaning. Comments about this low numbers are at the end of the report.

Placements overall

There were 3 applications processed in the month of June.

Academy vs Non-Academy
= Requests =
1 (33%) Academy
2 (67%) Main Fleet
0 (0%) Abramsverse

= Placements =
1 (33%) Academy
2 (67%) Main Fleet
0 (0%) Abramsverse
(Everyone was placed in the Academy who requested the Academy.)

Placement Statistics

= Posting Speed Requested=
0 (0%) Infrequent
1 (33%) Slow
0 (33%) Average
1 (0%) Regular
1 (33%) Frequent

=Posting speed placed=
1 (33%) Slow
2 (67%) Medium

Comments: The club currently has no fast ships that accept new members.

= How they found us =
Web search engines: 1
Referrals: 1
Did not say or provide details: 1

Departments
= First choice preferences for departments =
Engineering: 2 (67%)
Medical: 0 (0%)
Security: 0 (0%)
Science: 1 (33%)

= Department Placed in =
Engineering: 1 (33%)
Medical: 0 (0%)
Security: 1 (33%)
Science: 1 (33%)

Comments: One cadet had to be placed in their second choice of departments due to DH for the first choice being absent on both Academy ships.

Processing Times

Average Processing Time: 10.5 hours
3 applications (100%) processed under 24 hours
0 applications (0%) processed between 24 and 48 hours
0 applications (0%) processed between 48 and 72 hours
0 applications (0%) processed over 72 hours

Member Tracking
(As of July 7, 2019)

=April 2019=

Academy placements: 4
Active: 1 (25%)
Rostered, but AWOL: 0
Never posted: 1 (25%)
AWOL (and no longer rostered): 2 (50%)

Comments: Since the last report, the two AWOL cadets who were still rostered are now no longer rostered.

Non-Academy placements: 2
Active: 0
Rostered, but AWOL: 0
Never posted: 1 (50%)
AWOL (and no longer rostered): 1 (50%)

Comments: No changes since the last report.

Abramsverse placements: 1
Active: 0
Rostered, but AWOL: 0
Never posted: 1 (100%)
AWOL (and no longer rostered): 0

Comments: No changes since last month’s report.

=May 2019=

Academy placements: 2
Active: 1 (50%)
Rostered, but AWOL: 0
Never posted: 1 (50%)
AWOL (and no longer rostered): 0

Comments: Since last month’s report, one of the cadets who hadn’t posted is now active.

Non-Academy placements: 0

Abramsverse placements: 2
Active: 0
Rostered, but AWOL: 0
Never posted: 1 (50%)
AWOL (and no longer rostered): 1 (50%)

Comments: Since the last report, one of the AWOL JOs who was rostered has been removed from the roster.

=June 2019=

Academy placements: 1
Active: 0
Rostered, but AWOL: 0
Never posted: 1 (100%)
AWOL (and no longer rostered): 0

Non-Academy placements: 2
Active: 0
Rostered, but AWOL: 1 (50%)
Never posted: 1 (50%)
AWOL (and no longer rostered): 0

Abramsverse placements: 0
Active: 0
Rostered, but AWOL: 0
Never posted: 1 (100%)
AWOL (and no longer rostered): 0

Open items from last report

MOTD: No new updates

Implementing PDept’s work into Exodus: No new updates.

Recommendations page: Pending TECH availability (may be delayed until next term).

New Member Resource Taskforce: The taskforce has started their reviews.

Placement policy review: This will most likely be an item for the second-half of the term, although I may put in on hold until our placement numbers increase. There’s not much point into reviewing our placement policies if we’re not engaging the policy that much.

Low placement numbers. In my last report, I commented about the low placement numbers in May, and I said I would monitor to see if it was an anomaly or a trend. Well, in May we had four placements, and in June we went down to three.

For those interested, using all of the reports I have filed since becoming the Personnel Director at the start of August 2018, I have complied the following graph for the overall trend in placement numbers. The graph can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N254W6SV4H7kPx890ggbZMapv3B_ksxwgyCqMR-IZW8/edit?usp=sharing. I would caution that this past winter saw an unusual spike in placements due to the spambot referral problem we were having at the time, with most of those placements not sticking around. But even without that spike form the past winter, the trend appears to be there.

Even without looking at the trend, I have to say that three or four placements a month is not sustainable. New placements is one pillar of our membership sustainability, the other pillar being retention. Neither work on their own. As Personnel Director, I am noticing some issues with our ability to sustain all of our RPG capability. We need to turn these numbers around, and soon. Unfortunately, the PDept’s role is more in processing and retention - we don’t have large role in the recruitment/referral aspect, and that’s where we have to build up our strength right now. I am open to suggestions of what can be done.

To be clear, the current trend –cannot – turn into the status quo.

Academy placements: I believe the Academy is looking at the issue of placements and the Academy ships, and I’ll save my comments about that elsewhere as part of the now-Academy discussion.

Comments:

Other than the open items discussed above, nothing new to report.

Daniel Lerner, Personnel Director