QUESTION
Are New York City jobs being made accessible without a college degree?
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The Department of Citywide Administrative Services is making certain jobs accessible without requiring a college degree, impacting around 20,000 positions.
- The initiative involves analyzing 40 job titles for potential removal of college degree requirements.
- Approximately 20,000 positions are already affected by this change, making them accessible without a college degree.
- The correction officer title has been highlighted; this adjustment provided access to an additional 2,000 candidates.
- This policy aims to address hiring challenges in fields such as technology by broadening the pool of eligible candidates.
Gale A. Brewer
0:44:51
In terms of the wonderful work you do in terms of the exams, I could be wrong on this, but I think Maryland and Philadelphia have said because it's hard to hire for technology and others.
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We don't need a college degree, etcetera.
0:45:04
There's been a whole effort along are we doing something similar?
Dawn M. Pinnock
0:45:09
Absolutely.
0:45:10
We've actually started this work where we've looked at the minimum qualifications.
0:45:14
There are approximately, I think, 20,000 positions today that are now impacted by our removal of a college degree.
0:45:22
We have a list of 40 titles in total that we're analyzing, and so we can certainly keep you abreast of our progress.
0:45:28
One of the titles was even correction officer.
0:45:31
We saw that with removing even the the college credits that we then had access to another 2000 candidates that would have been skipped over on that list.
0:45:40
So it's absolutely working
Gale A. Brewer
0:45:42
because Philadelphia got credit.
0:45:44
Mhmm.
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Maryland got credit, and we got 0.
0:45:47
In terms of this policy change.
0:45:50
I'm just saying if we could let the world know if this if it's appropriate, particularly for jobs that are tech related I would say correction officer makes sense.
0:45:59
But there are, you know, with all due respect, we don't we need help with tech in the city of New York.
Dawn M. Pinnock
0:46:04
Absolutely.
0:46:05
But it's also looking at those titles that require specific h a.
0:46:08
Exactly.