REMARKS
Issues with the civil service hiring process
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Council Member Restler outlines problems with the current civil service hiring process and calls for reforms to improve recruitment, hiring, and retention of city government employees.
- Criticizes the long timeline (over 18 months) from taking a civil service exam to receiving a start date or promotion
- Highlights the lack of communication with candidates during the hiring process
- Calls for DCAS to rethink its approach to recruiting, hiring, and retaining city government employees
- Advocates for building more in-house capacity rather than relying on expensive consultants
Lincoln Restler
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The charter charges DCAS with ensuring we have personnel policies that promote and support the efficient and effective delivery of services to the public.
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But it's clear that something has broken down.
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It shouldn't take more than 18 months from the time you take a civil service exam to receiving a start date or getting a promotion.
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But that's what happens essentially every single time.
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And candidates are left completely in the dark with no information on their status or timeline of if or when they'll get called.
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This is not how hiring should work in the 21st century.
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We need DCAS to rethink how we recruit, rehire, and retain city government employees.
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And we should be building more in house capacity, not relying on overpaid consultants that too often underperform.
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Today, I hope we can break down existing hiring processes to understand what's driving some of these shortcomings and begin to chart a new path forward to ensure that our city workforce is efficiently and effectively delivering for New Yorkers.
