Q&A
Tracking of job offer declines in city hiring process
1:50:25
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Council Member Restler inquires about the tracking of job offer declines in the city hiring process. Deputy Commissioner Porter confirms that this information is tracked as required by Local Law 50 of 2002.
- DCAS tracks job offer declines as mandated by local law
- Many candidates take multiple civil service exams and may already be city employees
- Decline of job offers doesn't necessarily indicate lack of interest in city jobs
Lincoln Restler
1:50:25
Good.
1:50:26
Just wanted to confirm that.
1:50:27
Great.
1:50:27
Thank you.
1:50:28
And then I was just one question that I didn't ask that I was thinking about after was, you know, with this slow process, do you carefully and, you know, to your earlier comments, do you carefully track how many people turn down the opportunities when contacted by the cast of the agencies about the the lists that they may have, an opportunity to to be hired off of?
Katrina Porter
1:50:50
Absolutely.
1:50:50
There's a local law that tracks that information.
1:50:52
It's local law, 50 of 2,002.
Lincoln Restler
1:50:57
That's Do you know those trend lines?
1:50:58
Are we moving in the wrong direction?
Katrina Porter
1:51:00
So I think that the the issue at hand is is is not, about, folks not being interested in in city jobs.
1:51:11
They may have taken multiple civil service exams, so they may already be city employees working, in a different title.
1:51:19
Hence, they, you know, would fail to report a decline, to be hired in a different title.
Lincoln Restler
1:51:23
So that is probably a good segue.
