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Public Service Corps program updates and recruitment efforts
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Council Member de la Rosa asks about preparations for the upcoming summer Public Service Corps program and DCAS's outreach efforts. Kadian Outar, Executive Director of the Office of Citywide Equity and Inclusion, provides details on their recruitment strategies and program expansion plans.
- DCAS is combining recruitment efforts for all internship and fellowship programs
- A hiring event is planned to connect agencies with students
- DCAS is rebuilding relationships with CUNY work study coordinators and expanding outreach to less engaged schools
Carmen de la Rosa
0:59:02
Great and one of my favorite topics, the Public Service Corps program.
0:59:07
We received the first report from DCAS on the administration of the program and its success in engaging student centered activities and recruitment of diverse candidates.
0:59:16
Are you able to share any information about your preparation for the public service court program for this coming summer and what types of outreach has DCAS been able to do to recruit students for internships in the city?
Kadian Outar
0:59:31
My favorite topic as well.
0:59:33
Yeah, so we continue to do outreach.
0:59:35
One of the great things about the workforce operations team is that we're able to combine the recruitment teams with all of the internships and fellowship teams, so every instance that we go out into the public, we're speaking about all of our programs, including the Public Service Corps program, and we're also planning another hiring event.
0:59:52
It's an opportunity to get agencies and students in the same place, and hopefully make quick hiring decisions, and we're also targeting and rebuilding relationships with our CUNY work study coordinators to make sure that we are engaging, not just the schools that we typically work with, but having a broader scale, and we are reaching out to, you know schools in Staten Island and other areas where we don't typically engage.
1:00:17
So we're definitely and also looking at internally and how the program is and how we can expand it to reach more agencies and more students.