Oklahoma Department of Human Services

Competency-based Personnel Selection

The Oklahoma Department of Human Services, worked with the QIC-WD to standardize their child welfare hiring practices. This video highlights how they created their new competency-based selection process and shares the experiences of staff and leaders who’ve participated in the new process.

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Why the Oklahoma DHS felt that working with the QIC-WD was a good opportunity

Leaders from Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) discuss why it is important to have a strong child welfare workforce and partner with the QIC-WD.

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Oklahoma Selects and Designs a Selection Intervention
Posted on March 13, 2019

Oklahoma’s Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development Steering Committee has decided to refine the selection process for new child welfare workers.

Oklahoma: Competency - Based Employee Selection Process
Posted on February 13, 2019

How competencies, or the characteristics of successful employees, can inform a child welfare agency’s hiring process

Collaborating to Conduct a Workforce Needs Assessment
Posted on February 1, 2019

Want to learn to conduct a needs assessment that will identify the root causes of your child welfare workforce challenges?

Oklahoma : Competency-Based Employee Selection Process
Posted on January 8, 2019

How competencies, or the characteristics of successful employees, can inform a child welfare agency’s hiring process.

QIC-WD Site Intervention Selection – Fall 2018
Posted on October 18, 2018

The QIC-WD sites have selected their workforce interventions! Learn about the range of interventions that will be implemented and tested to build knowledge about what works to improve worker retention in the field of child welfare.