Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 04-11-06 Workshop — reading text

all be qualified final selection decision. of chemistry between the candidates and the City that should produce the document. It contains our Our final report will be presented in person. This report is a comprehensive candidate recommendations, details about the search, interview tips, interview questions, candidate evaluation The report also includes the candidate interview forms and information about legal vs. illegal inquiries. relative to tim ing, sequencing, location, setting, format, and conduct schedule as well as our recom mendations information about each recommended candidate. This of interviews. The report contains comprehensive the candidate' s experience relative to the includes educational and experience information, an evaluation of statement of accomplishments and criteria established by the City, a summary of reference comments and a each recommended management style prepared by the candidate. Present compensation is also provided for candidate. contracts and agreements, relocation We will provide information about trends in employment, employment roles for receptions, etc. We arrange schedules for top expenses, perquisites, appropriate spouses, candidate interviews with the City and we will coordinate the entire process. directed, it is our standard practice to We will properly handle any and all media relations. Unless otherwise of Fort Walton Beach and that any public statement tell all media that we are working on behalf of the City conditions will release information to the media unless should come from the City directly. Under no we specifically directed by the City to do so. We will notify all unsuccessful candidates of the final decision reached. Finally, will continue to work for the hired by the City. City until a suitable candidate is recruited and not discriminate against any employee or SMC is an equal opportunity employer and recruiter, and will creed, color, sex, disability or national origin. applicant for employment because of race, religion, 3 FLORIDA by Slavin Management Consultants Prepared for the CITY OF FORT WAL TON BEACH,  l E. Establish Evaluation Criteria I I I Once the new Finance Director has been on board for 30 days or so, we will conduct a session with the City Administrator and with the new Finance Director to establish mutual performance criteria and goals for the position. F. Follow-UD We will follow- up with the City and the new Finance Director during the first year and assist in making any adjustments that may be necessary. G. ReDortina We will keep the City informed, involved in decisions and involved in the search process. We will provide frequent progress reports to the City. H. Deliverables Deliverables include the recruitment profile ( draft and final), the advertisement ( draft and final), the progress schedule, interview questions, report ( presented in person), the final report with interview tips, interview candidate resumes, candidate evaluations, candidate writing samples, rating sheets, ranking forms, tabulation forms and appropriate/ inappropriatequestion list and negotiated employment agreement between the City and the selected candidate. 4 FLORIDA by Slavin Management Consultants Prepared for the CITY OF FORT WAL TON BEACH, PROJECT SCHEDULE The search process normally takes between sixty (60) and ninety ( gO) days to complete and typically follows the following pattern: DAYS I STEPS I 1- 30 I 30-45 I 60 45- I 60-360 ! 1. DEVELOP SEARCH PROCESS, RECRUITMENT PRO- FILE AND ADVERTISING PROGRAM FOR CITY APPRO- . I VAL 2. IDENTIFY QUALIFIED CANDIDATES, REVIEW DATA BASE. NETWORK, RECEIVE AND REVIEW RESUMES . I . I 3. SCREEN & EVALUATE PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES . I 4. PROGRESS MEETING AND REPORT . I INTERVIEW AND EVALUATE PROSPECTIVE . I . I 5. CANDIDATES I 6. SUBMIT FINAL REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS, . ASSIST IN SELECTION, FACILITATE EMPLOYMENT I 7. ESTABLISH EVALUATION CRITERIA AND FOLLOW- UP . Approximately twelve semifinalist candidates are presented to the City at the progress meetings. Generally, about five finalist candidates are presented for interviews with the City. 5 FLORIDA by Slavin Management Consultants Prepared for the CITY OF FORT WAL TON BEACH, QUALIFICATIONS AND STAFFING This section presents our qualifications to conduct projects of this type and describes the staff to be assigned to the search. A. Firm Qualifications SMC is an independent management consulting firm formed in 1986 and incorporated in the State of Georgia. We operate nationwide from our home office near Atlanta, Georgia. The principal and only stock holder of the firm is Robert E. Slavin. Mr. Slavin has extensive experience as a local government executive and as a management consultant. We have affiliates in Ann Arbor, MI; Dallas, TX; Hartford, CT and Los Alamos, NM. The company provides exceptionally high- quality consulting services to state and local governments, health care providers, transit authorities, utilities, special districts, and private sector clients. Specialty practice areas include executive recruitment, pay and classification, performance appraisal systems, and organization development and training. Our key consultants have conducted successful assignments for hundreds of public sector organizations nationally and offer many references as testimony of our work. This important engagement will be personally conducted by Mr. Robert E.Slavin. Mr. Slavin has conducted or assisted in the conduct of more than 575 successful executive searches throughout his career. Members of theproposed search team have conducted executive searches for Slavin Management Consultants as well as for others before joining the firm. All are professional public human resources practitioners with significant direct management experience. All are long- term, active members of a variety of professional organizations and stay abreast of new and changing laws, developments and trends by regularly attending specialized workshops, seminars and annual conferences. B. Staff/na Robert E. Slavin. President Mr. Slavin will manage and serve as the lead consultant for this project. He is a pioneer in public sector and nonprofit executive search. . He is among the best known and respected professional recruiters in the business. He is a frequent speaker before professional groups and he has written several articles for professional journals concerning governmental management. By special invitation, Mr. Slavin assisted the United States Office of Personnel Management to define and set up the Senior Executive Service for the Federal Government. Mr. Slavin began his local government career in 1967. His experience includes twelve years working directly for local governments and it includes seven years as a principal consultant with the government search practice of Korn/ Ferry International, the largest private sector search firm in the world. He headed the local government search practices for Mercer/Slavin, Incorporated, Mercer, Slavin & Nevins and Slavin, Nevins and Associates, Inc. Mr. Slavin now heads the executive search practice for Slavin Management Consultants. Clients include state and local governments, nonprofit and private sector businesses all over the United States. His experience includes search assignments for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic' s Organizing Committee. Mr. Slavin' s experience and qualifications include organizational analysis, classification and compensation studies, and assessment centers and human resource' s systems studies. Before being invited to join Korn/ Ferry International, Mr. Slavin served as Assistant City Manager/ Director of Human Resources for the City of Beverly Hills, California. While at Beverly Hills, Mr. Slavin conducted many executive level recruitment assignments involving nationwide search and placement. Before joining the City of Beverly Hills, Mr. Slavin was the Assistant Personnel Director for the City of San Leandro, California. His Before San Leandro, Mr. Slavin was on the personnel staff of Santa Clara County, California. for the County' Health Department, Medical assignments included recruitment, classification and selection s s Office, Center, Transportation Agency, Sheriff's Office, Superintendent of Schools, Fire Marshall, Assessor' Consultants 6 Prepared for the CITY