With an unemployment rate in Oklahoma City as low as 2.1% in April 2023, many Oklahoma businesses continue to struggle with recruitment and hiring and to fill open positions.
Embark, the Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority, a trust of the city of Oklahoma City, has known for some time that expanding employment opportunities to untapped and underrepresented groups was key to improving employee recruitment outcomes.
“As a public trust we are very careful in our hiring. We have a responsibility to our passengers, our employees and our co-workers to find the right people who will contribute to Embark being the very best provider of transit in Central Oklahoma. However, we’ve focused our culture on creating opportunities for everyone,” said Embark’s human resources specialist, Lora Miller.
Some workplaces are very restrictive and have policies in place to prevent those who are formerly justice involved from joining the team. Others use “knockout questions,” or questions designed to help human resources recruiters sift through large numbers of applications and more easily narrow down candidates to a more manageable number.
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