Recruiting staff that meet established qualifications for specific job functions. With changes in demographics and competition for qualified staff, rethinking the skills and attributes needed in the community corrections field while balancing rehabilitation through supporting behavior change and community safety objectives are critical to operating an effective and humane corrections organization. Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic has added an additional layer of complexity to the recruitment and retention of staff.

• Training Parole Agents: How Prior Criminal Justice Work Shapes Attitudes and Beliefs – Study of New Parole Agents and Attitudes

  Date: December 2020  
  This study of new parole agents sets out to compare how prior work experience in the criminal justice field can have an impact on parole agents' knowledge, attitude, and behavior towards justice-involved individuals, their support or lack for individuals' reentry and supervision in the community, and the understanding of the principles on which effective correctional interventions and programs are based.

• Arizona Probation Personnel Practices

  Undated 
  The Arizona Code of Judicial Administration is the statewide policy that outlines hiring qualifications, uniform job descriptions, and drug testing for Arizona probation officers. These standards are required and applied to hiring all adult probation officers in the state's Superior Courts.

• Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry Job Description

  Date: January 2022  
  This Arizona Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation job description states the required knowledge, skills, and abilities for Community Corrections Officers hired for Community Supervision for the State of Arizona.

• Higher Education and the Recruitment, Training, and Retention of Community Corrections Personnel in the Coming Era of Criminal Justice Reform

  Date: September 2021  
  This article discusses the need for a shift in curriculum and programs in higher education to meet the needs of the community corrections industry as reforms occur and the business shifts away from the criminal justice/policing type modalities to the rehabilitation and RNR approach to community corrections.

• Surveys Reveal the Questions Interviewees Want to Ask

  Date: June 2022 
  This article from JobSage looks at hiring practices from an interviewee perspective and gives hiring authorities items to think about as hiring and retention are difficult.

• 4 Proven Strategies for Attracting and Retaining State and Local Government Workers

  Date: June 2022 
  This article is from Route Fifty, an independent organization that initially launched as Government Executive’s State and Local channel in July 2014. In 2015, Route Fifty expanded to a standalone digital publication providing resources focusing on technology and innovations in state and local governments. This resource provides a commentary on hiring and retaining public service employees.