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What are the current initiatives for entering civil service and how do fellowship titles relate to civil service positions?
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The Civil Service Pathway Fellowship, a partnership with CUNY, offers a direct path into civil service through specialized training and hands-on experience in various tracks.
- The fellowship focuses on procurement and finance, data, and digital fields, with plans to add engineering, architecture, and project management.
- After one year, participants are eligible for a civil service exam related to their work, guiding them towards relevant civil service titles.
- The fellowship aims to attract top talent by doubling the positions available and offering specialized titles like "public service fellow", linked to their specific track of participation.
- Titles fellows qualify for are based on their track, such as procurement analyst for those in the procurement and finance track.
Carmen De La Rosa
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There are there other organizations that the city or Decast has paired up with to collaborate on the administration of exams?
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Are there any ongoing initiatives that help create pathways for entry to civil service at this time?
Katrina Porter
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Many different pathways, but one that I would highlight that has you know, a direct pathway to civil service is the civil service pathway fellowship.
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This is a partnership with with Q And E.
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Yes.
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It is a 2 year fellowship, and we focus on 3 particular tracks where there is an immediate need for top talent, so it's procurement and finance, data, and digital, and There's one other.
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So pretty much folks who participate in this program after 1 year of successful completion, they're eligible to take civil service exam for a title that is tied to the work that they're doing.
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They also receive specialized training and hands on experience at, you know, city agencies.
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So this is a program that we're very proud of.
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We're actually working to expand the program, working with the state civil service commission, to double the amount of positions that we have available and to add 2 additional tracks for educate for engineering and architects and project management, which we've heard from our city agencies, they're interested in attracting top talent.
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So we're very excited about that.
Carmen De La Rosa
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How are the civil service titles selected to participate in the fellowship?
Katrina Porter
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So the the fellowship title itself is a is a a specialized title.
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It's it's called the public service fellow.
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Mhmm.
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And so the titles that they qualify for are directly tied to the track that they are participating in.
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So, you know, for the procurement and finance track, their participation in that track would make them eligible for a title like procurement analyst.
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And so on and so forth?
