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Assisting the General Directorate of Prisons on
a better human resource management
 14.12.2007
On 21-23 November
AHC organized a workshop on drafting some job
profiles of some positions in the penitentiary
institutions as well as on models of oral
interviews and written tests for people to be
recruited in the penitentiary system. This
workshop worked on these concrete assignments
with the final aim to help the prison system and
especially the human resource sector at the GDP
improve the recruitment system as well as the
existing job descriptions. The Albanian working
group was made of persons responsible for human
resources management at the GDP, governors and
other high and middle management representatives
of the GDP.
The Albanian
working group was assisted in this process by
experienced international experts in this area
such as Mr. Cees Boeij General Governor of Dutch
prisons, Mr. Frank Borst, Deputy Director of the
Netherlands Training Center of Prisons and Mr.
Jan van den Brand, General Governor of Dutch
prisons who also moderated this workshop.
 The Albanian working group
was presented with the STAR method
of oral interviews for potential candidates to
be recruited in the prison system in the
Netherlands. The STAR method helps the
interviewer avoid the wrong questions as well as
determine whether the potential candidate is the
right person for the position applied
by gathering information from the potential
candidate on situations of his previous
experience, tasks s/he has performed, concrete
activities carried out and the results achieved.
The Albanian working group already practiced
this method through role play interviews.
Participants were also introduced with the whole
selection procedure including all the tests and
interviews done for this purpose.
Another very important topic
treated in this workshop was the presentation of
the job profiles models of different positions
in Dutch penal institutions. Experts presented
the main format of the job profile which
includes the aim of the work in the prison
organization, personal general data, concrete
position in the organization, an overview of the
expected results, limits of the position’s
mandate etc. The Albanian working group worked
out three formats of this kind for the position
of a prison governor, head of prison police in a
prison and head of human resources at the GDP.
 Participants highlighted that these formats have
several advantages compared to the current ones
and enables the human resources personnel to
highlight the appropriate competences of each
potential candidate for the position they apply.
In addition, these formats will make it possible
not only have a clear overview of the position,
its duties and responsibilities but above all of
the expected results which will serve as
indicators for the annual evaluation of each
member staff performance in the prison
organization.
The next
assignment for the Albanian working group on
human resources issue is to draft other job
profiles in this format for the other positions
in the prisons and use the competences part in
the announcements of the vacant positions they
will do in the future.
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