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DYCD discusses hiring challenges and recruitment strategies
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Council Member Stevens inquires about DYCD's challenges in hiring new candidates and their recruitment strategies for difficult-to-fill positions, particularly in IT and legal areas.
- DYCD reports difficulties in finding qualified candidates for IT and legal positions
- The agency uses citywide hiring halls and engages with CUNY and local colleges for recruitment
- DYCD's college aid program is highlighted as a successful pipeline for transitioning students into professional roles
Althea V. Stevens
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What are some of the main challenges DYCD experience in hiring new candidates?
Alan Cheng
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In some of those positions there is definitely a lack of qualified candidates like in the IT area, even in finding lawyers.
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But for the most part we are able to fill like our programmatic positions and some of the contracting
Valerie Mulligan
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positions.
Althea V. Stevens
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What does the recruitment look like for some of those more challenging positions?
Alan Cheng
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Sorry, can you repeat that question?
Althea V. Stevens
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What does like recruitment look like for some of those more challenging positions?
Alan Cheng
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So the more challenging positions we are engaged with you know there's with the citywide hiring halls, we're also
Althea V. Stevens
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Have those been effective?
Alan Cheng
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We've we've gotten a few people from there.
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I don't have the exact number but yes.
Althea V. Stevens
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And so what are some of the other places that you're looking especially I think you said what lawyers and IT positions, those have been harder to fill.
Alan Cheng
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We are also looking at working with CUNY and other local colleges to find you know upcoming graduates or recent graduates.
Althea V. Stevens
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Have you looked at like especially with the IT, have we looked at some of the nonprofit agencies like Prescola?
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I know we do a lot of funding for them.
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Have you been working with them because I know that part of their program is also about hiring.
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Have we talked with them?
Alan Cheng
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Not that I'm aware of but we definitely will look into
Althea V. Stevens
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Yeah I think especially a lot of the IT programs I know that we fund on the council side, part of it is job development and so we should definitely make sure that we're kind of connecting those dots so after we can definitely try to connect you with those agency
Keith Howard
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those One of our great success is within our college aid program.
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How we bring in college students that transition into these professional jobs.
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Our IT department is one of the departments that hosts a significant amount of college aids and then as they complete their education requirements, they transition into employment opportunities.
Althea V. Stevens
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Yeah I think that those are the places we should be going and starting and I know specifically and I even brought up the Prescola because like the council funds for them to train NYCHA residents and so you know I think that would just be a nice fit if they have young people that they or not young people but people in general, that they can recommend.