We hate to say we told you so. But the state has abandoned its faulty E-recruiting system after sinking some $6 million into it.
Most agencies never posted jobs there and only 40 percent of new employees were hired through the system, according to a KPLU radio news report.
Ah, but bad ideas never truly die.
The state will get out of the e-recruiting business and instead turn it over to a private contractor.
Ginny Dale of the state Department of Personnel told KPLU: "We've been using the system for three years and rather than continuing to invest and try (to) improve it, we're going to move in a different direction and go with a hosted provider."
So, to recap, E-recruiting didn't work at the cost of millions of dollars so the state will contract it out to a private company that knows even less about state employees and state government at a cost of more millions of dollars.
They won't pull the plug on a failed system to recruit state employees but they will pull the plug on pay raises meant to retain good state employees. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
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