-: My name is Ryan Latham.
I'm with the state of Minnesota
with the Department of Human Services
and I'm a Human Resources Specialist
specifically with Talent Acquisition Team.
So part of my job specifically entails
I work out of the Saint Peter Regional Treatment Center
in Saint Peter helping people who may of been
civically committed after committing crimes
or being part of Minnesota's sex offender program.
Right of the bat there, people who are even
in those situations still,
they still need to be taken care of.
They're still humans just like the rest of us.
They still need to have all their
basic needs met and everything too.
I'm hiring out of that Saint Peter organization.
A lot of the people in the same kind of work as I do
in particular, will be hiring people
all across the state of Minnesota, depending on that.
Specifically for our area, we focus a lot on
direct care and treatment.
Taking people directly, maybe things like
Registered Nurses, or CNA's,
even things like Security Counselors
or Forensics Support Specialists down in Saint Peter.
But even things like psychiatrists or behavior analyst.
I take a really close look at what would be
minimum qualifications for people
and kind of match that up to resumes
and to see if people fit the bill.
So that really does come down
to the bare bones right there.
We of course are always looking into
having a wide diverse environment.
Lot of inclusion, people from all backgrounds
because as Governor Wallace just said, one Minnesota.
We're all there together.
We need to have everybody from different
backgrounds of life because there's people from different
backgrounds of life that need to be taken care of as well.
A lot of the places that we like to go in
southern Minnesota, we'll stop by the workforce centers,
we'll stop at all the colleges, community colleges
in the area, maybe even some of the state universities.
Minnesota State University Mankato.
Gustavus is in my area as well.
But even like the workforce center in Mankato,
down to community colleges like South Central.
So we'll go to a lot of places for
picking up talent or different people.
But again you never know where that next
candidate will be.
It is hard to see those employees again,
maybe after we get them hired,
but I do like to stay in touch
and try and make sure that everything is going along.
Especially if their on boarding process.
Everyone knows starting a new job isn't easy,
especially getting enrolled in benefits
or other things going on.
We want to make sure that everybody
is covered in every realm.
Even if it might not be my specific job
I want to at least point them in the right direction.