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Civil service examinations and recruitment efforts
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DCAS Deputy Commissioner Katrina Porter discusses the department's strategies for civil service examinations and recruitment efforts to address hiring challenges.
- DCAS is developing an examination schedule for fiscal year 2026, engaging with agencies to understand their recruitment needs
- There has been a significant increase in civil service exam applications, with 71,000 applications in the first four months of the current year compared to 40,000 in the previous year
- The increase is largely attributed to the firefighter exam, which received about 40,000 applications
- DCAS continues to work on supporting agencies through various examination and recruitment strategies
Katrina Porter
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Good morning.
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So, member Resler, examinations continue to be the cornerstone recruitment efforts to support city agencies.
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We are currently in the process of developing our examination schedule for fiscal year twenty six where we are engaging agencies to understand their recruitment needs so that we can support them in the future.
Lincoln Restler
0:44:47
Can I just ask on that?
0:44:49
I was really impressed in the PMMR to see the number of applications for civil service exams increase so much.
0:44:54
I think it was 71,000 in the first four months of this year compared to about 40,000 last year, so you know, 80 something percent increase, very impressive.
0:45:03
What do you attribute that to?
Katrina Porter
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So we opened application periods for one of our large scale exams, firefighter, which mostly contributed to the increase in applications.
Lincoln Restler
0:45:13
Do you know the numbers?
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Number of that was
Katrina Porter
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We received upwards of 40,000 applications for a firefighter.
Lincoln Restler
0:45:19
Okay.
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So that is the whole increase.
0:45:21
Yeah.
0:45:21
Okay.
0:45:23
Sorry I interrupted you if you want to fin you or I can keep peppering you with questions.