-: My name is Katie Benning and I am the recruiter
for Hammer Residences.
We support people who have developmental disabilities.
We have residential programming and things like
case management to support people in the community.
So in our residential services, we provide 24/7,
365 support, anything that you or I might do
in a day to take care of ourselves
is what we're helping the people we serve with,
and then in our case management and customized
support services, those are contracted services
that a person can receive through the county.
Helping them with things like finding the right
services for their needs.
So I'm trying to find all sorts of staff
for Hammer Residences, mainly direct care staff
to work in our residential programs
directly with the people we serve.
The majority of our employees hear about Hammer
from word of mouth, so from current employees,
family members of the people we serve,
volunteers, or donors, or neighbors.
After that, I'm mostly looking online
for people to come find us,
and I find a lot of people who have experience
in this field and then some people who are looking
for a meaningful career change.
So in addition to recruiting
I do interviewing and onboarding.
I am able to participate in all sorts of strategic
thinking throughout the company to try to attract people
to Hammer, and I'm also involved in retention.
So trying to make sure that our employees are happy
and working with them to solve problems that they
might be facing and improve their job satisfaction overall.
My hours are pretty typical business hours,
Monday through Friday, something like 8:30 to five.
Travel involved is pretty limited to job fairs
and things like that.
One of the cool parts about my job is that I continue
to pickup direct care in our homes,
so I get to work directly with the people we
serve which actually makes me a lot better
at my job because I get to know people
and our different houses so that when I'm talking
to candidates I can give them very specific examples
of what they might be experiencing,
and really specific descriptions of the people
that they would be supporting.