Channel 4
Monday, May 5, 2025 1:45 PM (30 Minutes)
The recruitment, training, and retention of hazards analysts has been a common theme across symposiums of years past. What should their background be? Where should we advertise the job posting? What training should they receive? How can we retain analysts? These conversations are standard across the complex and recent investments in complex-wide training have helped to alleviate some of these concerns. However, after a failed hiring cycle and subsequent year-long vacancy on the LBNL hazards analyst team, we needed a new strategy. With layoffs rampant in the Bay Area, we realized there was a ton of talent looking for work but how could we get them interested in us? Taking the future of our team into our own hands, the hazards analysts revamped the hiring process to showcase why our team should be a place someone should want to work. Come learn more, as we present a case study showcasing LBNL’s new strategy to hazards analyst hiring.
The Hazards Analysts needed to take an active role in the hiring process in order to recruit the right candidate. DOE jargon was confusing and wasn’t capturing the attention of candidates that might not traditionally look for a job in DOE.