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Increased timeline for civil service exam results and hiring process
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Council Member Restler questions DCAS about the significant increase in time taken to issue civil service exam results and the overall hiring timeline. He expresses concern about the extended process, which now takes about 14-15 months from exam to hire, potentially causing applicant attrition.
- PMMR shows an increase from 115 to 163 days for exam result issuance
- Overall hiring process takes 14-15 months from exam to job offer
- Concern raised about losing applicants due to the lengthy process
Lincoln Restler
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As with Councilmember De La Rosa, we had a hearing on this not too long ago that highlighted some of these issues and our concerns, but I'd like to just dig into them again a little bit here.
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The PMMR showed the number of days it takes TCAS to get from exam administration to issuing results increased to one hundred and sixty three days, up from one hundred and fifteen days in the previous year.
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So that's you know close to a 30 something percent increase we're talking about.
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And that's only to results, not when it applies.
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That's not for when someone's actually getting a job offer, right?
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So hundred and sixty three days, we're talking about five months just to get your results on an exam.
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At our hearing in November we discussed it's taking fourteen to fifteen months from when an applicant takes an exam to when they're actually getting hired.
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We heard from DP that everyone that recently got called on an engineering list declined the opportunity.
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Has DKA's done analysis of how often this is happening?
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We think in part because of the delays and just how slow and painful the process is.
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We're losing folks.
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Are you looking at this?
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Can you offer any insight into what what may be occurring?