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DCAS's recruitment pipelines and diversity initiatives
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Katrina Porter outlines DCAS's various recruitment pipelines and initiatives aimed at increasing diversity and creating opportunities in the municipal workforce.
- Describes the role of the Workforce Operations team in providing targeted, data-driven recruitment solutions
- Details programs such as the Civil Service Pathway Fellowship, Public Service Corps, Urban Fellows, and summer internship program
- Mentions the implementation of the public safety bridge exam and reforms to minimum qualification requirements for civil service titles
- Reports that 90 civil service titles have been reviewed, with 61 revised, impacting over 53,000 jobs
Katrina Porter
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Core to building equity is the development and steady flow of candidates through multiple recruitment pipelines.
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With this in mind, we continue to focus on creating opportunities and sharing resources for those interested in municipal employment through dcast's workforce operations team.
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They carry out essential functions and bolster recruitment through the through engagement and education.
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The team provides targeted data driven solutions aimed at addressing recruitment challenges on behalf of the city.
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Within workforce operations, we house the office of citywide recruitment and the pathway program.
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OCR focuses on building relationships, advising, developing, and executing large scale recruitment strategies, and providing information to historically underserved communities that are underrepresented in city government.
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In conjunction with OCR, the pathway program features several opportunities for people to join the municipal workforce.
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These include the civil service pathway fellowship, a DCAS City of New York partnership that provides recent CUNY graduates with a two year fellowship, excuse me, and a pathway to permanent civil service employment.
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Public Service Corps which engages current college students interested in gaining government experience, Urban Fellows, a competitive program that provides opportunities in all facets of city government, and our summer internship program which is geared towards college students looking for temporary employment.
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We have also implemented new forward thinking approaches to expand opportunities including administering the first ever public safety bridge exam encompassing a multitude of titles with one exam and reforming the city's minimum qualification requirements for civil service titles.
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To date, DCAS has completed the review of 90 civil service titles and of these 61 have been revised.
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These revisions impact 53,000 plus jobs and expand qualification requirements which were previously restrictive and difficult for many applicants to meet.