Q&A
Outreach efforts and strategies for Public Service Corps recruitment
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DCAS Assistant Commissioner Kadian Outar explains the comprehensive outreach efforts to recruit Public Service Corps (PSC) candidates. The recruitment process involves engaging with schools, city agencies, and students through various channels.
- DCAS participated in career fairs, information sessions, and targeted internship events
- They leveraged job boards like Simplicity and Handshake
- A PSC Expo was held in June, resulting in 28 positions filled
- Approximately 23 events were specifically targeted towards PSC recruitment
Carmen De La Rosa
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Great.
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Thank you so much.
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What outreach efforts to decast engage in to recruit PSC candidates and how many outreach efforts to decast conduct in 2024?
Kadian Outar
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Thank you.
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So a bit of a background in terms of the process for engaging students.
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So the program is threefold in terms of one building collaboration in partnerships with different entities.
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So the first part of the program requires us to engage with the schools, to ensure that they are, you know, participating in the program, and they do allow for their students to work off-site.
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The second part of it is engage in the city agencies to make sure that they have positions and they're interested in participating in the program.
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And then the next part of it is engage in the students to make sure, you know, there's opportunities available.
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They are, you know, receiving federal work studies, so they can work at our city agencies.
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So we do a bit of engagements in the different areas, focusing on the students.
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We participate in various career fairs, information sessions.
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We do targeted internship specific events with some of our schools.
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We also work with private institutions because sometimes, you know, the information is there.
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We're getting people that are attending different events.
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So you wanna make sure that we're spreading that information as widely as possible.
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We also leverage our leverage the job boards.
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For example, we use simplicity and handshake because that's really where students go when they're looking to apply for internships and full sign positions.
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And we participate in different workshops and webinars that are geared towards students.
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So we try to do targeted events where we are working with the financial aid office at the schools or the career counselors.
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To make sure that folks that are engaged are able to complete an application on the spot.
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So we do of that, we did about 23 events that were targeted towards that population.
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But in addition to the PSC specific events that we've done, we work with the office of citywide recruitment, which includes information on all of our programs, including the public service corp program at all of the events that we attend.
Carmen De La Rosa
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Great.
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And so the the most direct vehicle for students is through the financially have you found that it's through the financial aid offices?
Kadian Outar
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I'm sorry.
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Can you repeat that question?
Carmen De La Rosa
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The most direct vehicle to students, have you found that it's through in inside of those institutions, is through the financial aid office?
Kadian Outar
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Yes.
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We have to work with them because they have to confirm that they person is receiving federal work study.
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And I don't know how I forgot it, but I also wanna mention the PSC Expo that we held in June.
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This was an opportunity.
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It was a higher end event that we held partnered with the schools and our city agencies to have the opportunities for students to interview and get offers on the spot for PSC internships that we had.
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And so we were able to fill about 28 positions from that event.
