He expects that to be at least a two year project. The issues of pay, market, and other pieces will be a two to three year effort. The big difference between job family classifications and JEFs is that you don t have to rewrite job descriptions for each new job when you have the job family classifications. In the new system, you don t submit a JEF and wait to see what the pay will be. In the new system, the manager can ask for a entry level or a high level job.
Market competition is a whole different thing.
Getting the pay and total compensation package to be more competitive will be a different effort. Dale Seay said that his intention is to set up a website regarding this effort. There may be a person available to work on this with him starting in June 2001. He said that one of his major efforts will be communication. One of the top level IT managers said recently that he has been with the university for many years and he has never been involved in anything as significant as the development of the job family classification system.