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Jane Wiseman. Bio. Jane Wiseman is an Innovations in Government Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She leads the Institute for Excellence in Government, a non-profit consulting firm dedicated to improving government performance.
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Apr 10, 2024 · Apr 10, 2024 12:08pm PT. Jane Wiseman Joins Sister as Head of U.S. Television. By Jack Dunn. WireImage. Jane Wiseman, who was previously VP of original series at Netflix, has joined Sister...
Apr 10, 2024 · April 10, 2024 12:00pm. Jane Wiseman Amanda Edwards/WireImage. Jane Wiseman is reuniting with former Netflix content chief Cindy Holland at Sister. Wiseman, who departed as head of comedy...
- Use targeted digital marketing.
- “Increasing the number of traditionally underrepresented people in your workforce does not automatically produce benefits.” (Ely and Thomas)
- Recommendation #3: Retain more candidates during the selection process
- Create a high-touch process.
- New staffing models:
- Rethink the career model. In a review
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Digital marketing enables delivery of customized messages to specific groups at costs far below traditional advertising. One state police agency seeking to recruit more Black troopers used geofencing to send its recruiting ad to every attendee at a graduation ceremony at a local Historically Black College. Low cost digital marketing offers the opp...
Assess organizational culture for any barriers to belonging. Lack of diversity can create a culture less welcoming for new entrants who are female or people of color, but as Harvard Business School scholars Ely and Thomas point out, “increasing the number of traditionally underrepresented people in your workforce does not automatically produce bene...
Police hiring processes can be lengthy, and candidates with other opportunities may not wait. Retaining more candidates through the process may require both providing more support to candidates during the process and improving to the process itself. Strategies that provide support to candidates include the following:
Providing one-on-one support via mentors, navigators, or advisors can help applicants maintain momentum and stay on track with all steps in the process, and can make them feel more connected before they join. In a survey of college students in criminal justice programs, 70% agreed that having a mentor would make a difference in their choosing a ca...
Even the most successful recruiting program may not close the gap between sworn strength authorized levels and new recruits ready to enter service. A fundamental rethinking of staffing and deployment models may be needed. Options include:
of state police hiring, scholars Whetstone, Reed and Turner suggest that attrition might be reduced by creating a training model like the one used in the medical field, with a standard set of rotations among specialties to be completed in the first three years of service, and then allowing staff to choose their specialty. The scholars’ model of ch...
able to prioritize the deployment of sworn staff to duties that require the full extent of their training and powers. Now is the time for bold and innovative approaches to attracting new entrants to the field of law enforcement, and to re-examine even the most basic elements of a recruiting program. Police leaders can leverage the intense focus on...
The Institute for Excellence in Government (IEG) is a non-partisan non-profit consulting firm devoted to making government better through research, writing, training, and coaching.
Jane Wiseman is a researcher who conducted a review of research on how to hire for diversity in law enforcement. She provides recommendations for attracting, recruiting, and retaining a diverse pool of candidates based on her findings.
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Jane Wiseman is a non-profit leader and former government official who specializes in government innovation and data-driven decision-making. She has written on topics such as customer-centric government, pretrial justice, and 311, and holds degrees from Smith College and Harvard Kennedy School.
Jane Wiseman is the CEO of the Institute for Excellence in Government and a Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. She writes and consults on topics such as data-driven decision-making, operational efficiency, and intergovernmental data sharing in government.
