Q&A
Discussion on Civil Service Pathways Fellowship career tracks and selection process
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Council Member Carmen De La Rosa inquires about the Civil Service Pathways Fellowship career tracks and selection process. Katrina Porter, from DCAS, explains the application and matching process for the program.
- The program offers six career tracks, including policy analysis, procurement, IT, and more
- Selection criteria are based on agency feedback and data on skill shortages
- The process of adding new tracks requires state approval, which can take 9 months to a year
Carmen De La Rosa
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The civil surveys services pathways fellows are placed in 1 of 6 career tracks.
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Policy and program analysis, procurement and finance, information technology, and data analysis, creative services and digital media.
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Project management and architecture and engineering.
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What criteria does the agency use to define and select these specific tracks?
Katrina Porter
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So the way the program works, council member, is that the we we advertise the program.
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Mhmm.
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The students, they submit their applications.
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We do a thorough review of the of the application to determine which track they would be most qualified for.
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And then it's a matching process that happens.
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There's a a group interview at the first level.
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The second level is an individual interview, and then the agencies and the the participants, they have an opportunity to pick, you know, which jobs they are most interested in.
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Mhmm.
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And then, you know, that matching process happens, and then, you know, the candidate goes through, you know, onboarding, and they actually start at the agency.
Carmen De La Rosa
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Great.
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Thank you for walking us through that.
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My question was more aligned towards the agency and the decisions that is made regarding which career tracks.
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So are there any plans to increase the number of participating agencies or introduce new career tracks?
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Like, how is the agency deciding that these sort of buckets of careers are the ones that are necessary or most popular.
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Like, what is the criteria?
Katrina Porter
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Thank you for that.
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So we determine what tracks to include in this program based on data and feedback from agencies.
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As to skill sets that may be, you know, limited at their agency or where they may have found it to be hard to recruit top talent.
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We then had to put together proposal for the state civil service commission, and then they provided us with authorization to include at least the new the 3 new additional tracks that we that we added, which is architecture engineering, project management, and then expanding the information technology track.
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And it's really just based on feedback from agencies and and data that we have access to.
Carmen De La Rosa
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And how long does that approval from the state take?
Katrina Porter
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It's how long does it take?
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It takes a while.
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It does take a while.
Carmen De La Rosa
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5 months,
Katrina Porter
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9 9 months to a year sometimes.
Carmen De La Rosa
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Okay?
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So that's another area where we can we know a few people and nobody.
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Right?
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We can we can talk to our state colleagues about that.
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I know.
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I traded my commute.
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Okay.
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Could you please elaborate on the partnerships that you have with the MTA and what the programs look like?
