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Tracking and standardizing hiring processes across city agencies
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Council Member Restler inquires about tracking hiring timelines, including OMB approval times, and standardizing processes across city agencies. Deputy Commissioner Porter explains DCAS's efforts in this area.
- DCAS is exploring ways to use their system to better track time-to-hire metrics
- Efforts are being made to standardize hiring processes across city agencies through HR transformation
- Council Member Restler emphasizes the need for comprehensive data to measure and hold agencies accountable
Lincoln Restler
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Do you track how long OMB takes to approve agencies, to give approval to agencies for positions from when they make an offer to when they actually, from when the agency makes an offer to when they actually get hired?
Katrina Porter
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No, DCAS does not track that process.
Lincoln Restler
0:48:20
Would you consider tracking in the MMR kind of end to end recruitment to hiring from so that we have a better vision of the because right, that's the goal, right?
0:48:29
Your goal here, and I know it's you have a tough job, especially when O and B Stonewall's you every step of the way, but the goal is to get people into jobs.
0:48:40
Isn't that the outcome that we should really be tracking?
Katrina Porter
0:48:43
So what I can say is we are looking for ways to use our nightcap system to better track the time to hire, but that the process between when an agency requests OMB approval to when they receive that, that really happens at the agency level.
0:48:58
I'll take it back and we'll figure out if we can, you know, better coordinate with agencies to understand that process.
Lincoln Restler
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I just think we would all be better served.
0:49:06
You guys, we have you under a microscope for the portion that you're responsible for, but we don't hold the agencies or OMB, We don't have that same window into their time frames and and have them and are and are unable to hold them accountable in a similar fashion.
0:49:19
You're measured in the PMMR and the MMR and the DMMR all the time of how long it's how many exams you're issuing, how long it's taking to get those exams processed.
0:49:27
Right?
0:49:28
And the rest of the process is a bit of a is a bit of is far more opaque.
0:49:31
Is that, I mean do you think that characterization is fair?
Katrina Porter
0:49:34
I think we're making strides in standardizing hiring processes across the city through our HR transformation process where we're looking at our forms and you know how we engage employees at orientation to build a more standardized process.
0:49:52
You know we've been at this for about a year.
0:49:54
We've made tremendous strides and we will continue to do so.
Lincoln Restler
0:49:57
And that sounds helpful.
0:49:58
I still think we need the data to be able to measure ourselves and to hold ourselves accountable.
0:50:03
You know, had OMB testified before us two weeks ago that they give responses to agencies in two weeks from when an agency sends a par over and they get two weeks for approval.
0:50:12
Have you ever had a response from OMB in two weeks for an agency par?
Katrina Porter
0:50:17
Not that I'm aware of, but decast proper would be able to speak better.
Lincoln Restler
0:50:20
Yeah, I didn't think so.