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An attempt to improve the AMS onboarding experience for new staff and management in time for June hiring failed.
The AMS announced its switch from AMS Apply—an online portal students used to apply to positions in the AMS—to Dayforce in March. While Dayforce was set to go live on June 24, all Senior and Assistant Managers at the AMS received an email on June 14 from Ian Trew, AMS human resources officer, that the launch was delayed.
The project’s costs, partially funded by undergraduate student’s mandatory $65 AMS hip fee, are in line with approved spending, AMS executive team OAR said in a statement to The Journal. OAR claimed the service needed to be fine-tuned to suit the needs of the organization, resulting in its push back.
As they search for a solution, the AMS will revert to using AMS Apply to hire 500 student employees.
“We felt that moving ahead [with Dayforce] would not be in the best interest for both our new staff and istrative procedures,” OAR said.
The change comes after hiring was delayed for services, offices, and commissions, due to an extended AMS election period, and adjustments to the recruitment calendar of service staff to aide in the transition to the Dayforce platform.
While team OAR said the AMS didn’t implement Dayforce recruitment, The Queen’s Journal was the first and only AMS service which used the platform to hire its full slate of staff in April.
“Using Dayforce was extremely difficult, especially since we were the first and only service to use it for hiring,” said Allie Moustakis, editor in chief of The Queen’s Journal in an interview. “[In] February, when we were in the midst of transitioning into our new roles, we were getting email after email [from candidates] some were saying they couldn’t create an or to Dayforce.”
It got to the point where Moustakis had to manually schedule interviews via email for over 30 candidates.
“It definitely turned people off and impacted the overall accessibility of applying to an AMS position,” Moustakis added.
With hiring season officially on its way, students can apply to AMS positions on AMS Apply starting June 24.
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