-: My name is Regina Newton and I work for
the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
Because it's state or public sector HR
it's a slightly different functions than
what you would see in a normal HR department.
There's a lot of transactional human resources
centered around staffing and movement.
They have very specific state classification system,
so if we have positions I would basically do
job audit or job analysis where I'll compare those against
like positions within that class.
Kind of create some justification in write up
so that we can move forward with positions.
There's also that kind of plays
into some compensation analysis
which has a formal methodology that we'd work within.
It's not a huge team,
so honestly a little bit of everything,
including internship program coordinator.
For example, let's say there is a
position group that's underrepresented.
There's not an appropriate class for them
to be compared against.
We had that happen recently.
The security guards that work within the capital,
they don't just patrol.
They deal with rallies, they have to look at
protecting first amendment rights.
There were a lot of things that really
didn't compare to that position,
so we called a basically, a hay rating,
that worked across the agency so we had
I think at least five or six different agencies represented.
We were able to all walk through.
We got a tour and presentation from that group.
That was basically telling
how their position can be different.
And then the agency raters,
these are kind of seasoned compensation analysts
within the other agencies within the state,
all got together and just had a conversation.
Really hashed out all the pieces to that position
that made it unique so that they could
come up with an appropriate rating and class for it.
That would be a good example of how everybody came together
and kind of worked across those lines.
It also gave those different perspectives because
their agencies may have slightly different
they might have similar positions,
but it can give that perspective to how different it is
and what would that warrant.