Topic: Everything Education / Turn over of new Staff

We don’t have a program that requires re-payment of training costs if an employee doesn’t remain employed after a certain amount of time, but we have started to successfully “weed” out employees who don’t know what they are getting into by implementing a “shadowing” program. We have a temporary position which is considered an “unclassified correctional worker”. While in this assignment and under “CLOSE OBSERVATION” a person may shadow an employee for a period up to 90 days prior to being offered full-time employment and the Pre-service training. Many people who enter this profession don’t realize they may not have what it takes until after we’ve invested all that time and money. This gives them the opportunity to see if this is really what they want to do before it becomes too costly for us.