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Discussion on civil service exam list posting and hiring processes
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Council Member Carr inquires about the process of posting civil service exam lists and DCAS's capacity to handle this task efficiently. Commissioner Molina provides insights into the current status and challenges of exam list publishing.
- Current turnaround time for publishing exam lists is about 160 days, under the 197-day target
- Different types of exams (incumbent, education experience, multiple question) have varying processing times
- DCAS provides preliminary lists to agencies to facilitate recruitment efforts
- The agency is working to shorten the timeframe for bringing candidates on board
David M. Carr
0:21:55
I appreciate that.
0:21:56
And then I guess my last area of questioning is about the posting of civil service exam lists.
0:22:03
I think in past hearings we've been focusing on whether we could do more hiring.
0:22:07
Obviously, there's a great need across different agencies in order to do that.
0:22:12
And so could you tell us like how whether or not you have sufficient staff and operational support in order to process these exams and post those lists in a quick amount of time?
0:22:23
Because sooner they're out there, the sooner the agencies can begin hiring off them.
0:22:27
And then I guess my final question is, the agency in the beginning of the administration did a number of hiring halls around the city.
0:22:33
I think one was in partnership with my office.
0:22:35
And do you think that there is enough in the preliminary budget for, hiring halls, in the coming fiscal year that could be done on Staten Island and Brooklyn and other places?
Louis Molina
0:22:45
No.
0:22:45
Thanks for your question.
0:22:46
So I think, you know, like that the mayor has said, I think we have to go to where the people are to tell them about the opportunities that exist in the city.
0:22:53
And at the beginning of hiring halls, the cast was spearheading that work.
0:22:56
The work of hiring halls has transitioned to city hall, NYC talent, and the small business services.
0:23:02
The good thing I'll say about that is that it has expanded not only for city job opportunities with the city, but also career opportunities with the private and the nonprofit sector also attend those hiring halls.
0:23:14
We at DCAS have enough funding, for our office of citywide recruitment to support those efforts.
0:23:20
We attend many of these hiring halls and do a lot of tabling.
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We also, if space permits as well as time, conduct civil service one zero one presentations to those that are looking for career opportunities within the city.
0:23:33
And just yesterday, in supporting NYC, Department Of The Aging, we had a hiring hall in Brooklyn that was geared towards seniors in our communities.
0:23:42
So I think hiring halls are one part of a very important strategy to make candidates and especially New Yorkers aware of what job opportunities are available and fully fully support them.
David M. Carr
0:23:53
Okay.
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And with respect to the publishing of civil service exams.
Louis Molina
0:23:57
Thank you for reminding me that.
0:23:58
That's okay.
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Yeah.
0:23:59
So in the last fiscal year, we did have really good headway in the turnaround of the publishing of exam lists.
0:24:07
But I think it's important to know that though many of those exams will qualify the incumbent exams, and those are those are exams, but they're very different from education experience exams and multiple question exams.
0:24:20
So there's a shorter window to turn around those exams, and that drew that drew our our turnaround time date very, very low.
0:24:28
We are at about a hundred and sixty days right now, which is still under our one hundred ninety seven day target.
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So we look to get these exam lists out as quickly as possible, but we do provide preliminary lists so that our agencies have a sense of some of the candidates that are gonna be coming their way once the list is certified, so they can begin to do some sort of recruitment efforts to shorten the window of time frame when they wanna bring candidates on.