City of Lima HR Director Della Bradford in to talk about how individuals can have a successful career with the city!
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The Lima Fire Department is seeing several firefighters move up the ranks as the department undergoes numerous changes following retirements and departures over the past year.
Ohio law enforcement agencies are struggling to find people to fill their ranks, but the state has developed a website that is hoping to help. Lawenforcementjobs.ohio.gov is powered by technology that is used on the OhioMeansJobs website to connect police departments, sheriff's offices, and other agencies with potential candidates for free. Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted says the website will give job seekers a recruitment edge the more they use the resource, as well as save them time and money.
Lima City Council continues their discussions from April on potentially changing their hiring procedures for the city's Police and Fire Chief. The conversation of this possible change is occurring as both Chief Angel Cortes with the Lima Police Department and Chief Andy Heffner with the Lima Fire Department will be retiring later this year leaving both positions open. Currently, the Lima Police and Fire Departments only permit hiring of the next chief by conducting an internal search, but council is considering expanding that search to external candidates outside of each department. However, councilors present different stances on what should occur.
Mercy Health-St. Rita's will be holding an open house hiring event at the end of the month. The medical center is in need of employees and is working hard to get them. The hiring event will have representatives from more than a dozen departments. The administration says there could be on-the-spot offers during the event to fill open positions.
The medical center is in need of 300 plus employees in nearly every one of their departments and is ready to hire on the spot. There will be a hiring event on Saturday, March 5th on their campus. They are looking for clinical and non-clinical positions. They are hiring entry-level and experienced professionals from all backgrounds.
"We talked about benefit packages and compensations packages for employees. Now is the time that we are going to retain employees and gain employees that we need to operate the jail and keep the county safe and keep the inmates secure," said Treglia. "Talking with the commissioners about those things is very important to me and that we write a whole package for employees at the sheriff's office."
The Ohio Department of Transportation District 1 is gearing up for the winter season. In order to prepare for snowfall and more, ODOT will be hiring seasonal snowplow drivers.
The governor says that numbers are currently where they were before the pandemic started. DeWine also states that after talking with restaurants and other businesses, hiring was at the forefront of problems. The governor as well as the Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted are working on implementing measures to improve work skills with those unemployed in the state of Ohio.
