QUESTION
What is the selective certification process and how does it work for city positions?
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The selective certification process allows for candidates with specialized skills to be preferentially hired for positions requiring specific qualifications, as explained by DCAS.
- Selective certification enables agencies or DCAS commissioners to identify candidates with special qualifications not tested in exams.
- Examples include administrative staff analysts who may have specific experience in budgeting or human resources.
- This process creates a smaller, specialized list of candidates from the broader eligible list, facilitating faster hiring for needed roles.
- It is clarified that police cadets taking the promotional exam for police officer is not an example of selective certification but a pathway to promotion.
Carmen De La Rosa
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So I want to switch over a little bit to talk about selective certification process.
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DCAS utilizes selective certification process whereby the announcement of an examination will contain a specific provision that allows the DCAS commissioner or the head of an agency to selectively certify candidates from an eligible list to fill similar or related positions which require additional or special qualifications that are not specifically tested for in an examination.
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For example, the NYPD uses select certification process to allow young trainees to take a police officer examine upon the completion of the Cadet Corps.
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Training, which will continue, which will count as a promotional effect.
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So can you describe sort of what accommodations are made, what does that process look like, and which titles normally have?
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Sure.
Katrina Porter
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So I just wanna clarify one thing for your chair.
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Police cadets are eligible to take the promotion exam for police officer.
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This is not, you know, an example of what is selective certification.
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They complete their, you know, their service, and then that makes them eligible for promotion.
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Select the certification is a process by which applicants who possess a particular specialized skill.
Carmen De La Rosa
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Mhmm.
Katrina Porter
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And this is above the minimum qualifications for the title.
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They may have a when an agency may have an immediate need or giving preference to be hired from an eligible So for example, I'll give you an example.
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So administrative staff analyst.
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This is a title that is used broadly a across most city agencies and various capacities.
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And so in the notice of exam for administrative administrative staff analyst, we offer a host of selective certifications for folks who may have budget experience or folks who may have experience in human resources.
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And so what this does is that it allows the agency to to request a a smaller list of folks that have that specialized skill set.
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Mhmm.
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So we have, like, the comprehensive list with thousands of folks on it, but then there's a smaller list with folks who have that specialized experience.
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So they still meet the minimum qualifications for the title.
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They're they just have that experience that the agency needs for a particular role.
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Okay.
Carmen De La Rosa
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So it's kind of a way of fast tracking to fill that need.
Katrina Porter
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Correct.
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In a way.
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Okay.
Carmen De La Rosa
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Okay.
