assessing campaign staff

I wanted to start an email chain about assessing campaign staff for placement either in the transition or the administration.  In going through the Kerry transition documents, I found an interesting memo and accompanying spreadsheet that analyzed the entire Kerry campaign staff.  I’ll scan the cover memo and a sample page, but the criteria that the Kerry folks used might be a helpful template for us.  For each campaign staffer, there was the following analysis:

 

·         Overall assessment as a staffer (ranked 1-5, with 1 being the best)

·         Priority placement in the administration (ranked 1-5, with 1 being must place, 5 being don’t place)

                                They deliberately made sure than not more than 20% of a department’s total staff could be ranked as 1, 20% as a 2, etc.

·         Professional experience (ranked 1-5, with 1 being 15+ years of professional experience)

·         Kerry service (ranked 1-5, based on the beginning of their service date with Kerry)

·         Prior administration experience (yes or no)

·         Transition/inaugural (yes or no, based on people who they wanted to tap immediately for participation in either activity)

 

And then they totaled it up:

 

Overall assessments

                1’s – 162

                2’s – 155

                3’s – 123

                4’s – 27

                5’s – 7

 

Priority placements

                1’s – 125

                2’s – 125

                3’s – 96

                4’s – 122

                5’s  - 6

 

This will all be a little more clear when I redact a sample page and scan it for your review.  But just wanted to get people thinking about this.

 

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Chris Lu

clu@barackobama.com

(312) 505-4864 (cell)