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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Retention and professional development initiatives
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Katrina Porter highlights DCAS's efforts to improve retention and provide professional development opportunities for city employees.
- Introduces the salary benchmarking tool for agencies to compare salary information
- Describes NY City Learn, a new learning management system launched in September
- Details the New York City Management Academy for mid-level managers and emerging leaders
- Mentions additional efforts like career counseling, training expos, and expanded resources for agencies
Katrina Porter
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Our efforts aren't just limited to recruitment as we recognize retention and professional development are equally as important.
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Other efforts undertaken by DCAS include the salary benchmarking tool which provides agencies with minimum, mean, median, and maximum salary information at the agency and civil service title level aggregated from employee level data and compares the salary information against other agencies of similar size, function, and citywide.
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NY City Learn, our new learning and management system launched last September which increases access to training and professional development opportunities and resources.
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The New York City Management Academy equips mid level managers and emerging leaders with grounding and fundamental management principles and best practices to meet the unique demands of managing and city government and provides access to more senior level positions.
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This is just a small sampling of the city's efforts to increase retention and foster increased professional development opportunities which supplement our additional work like career counseling, our training expos, expanding resources for agencies, and of course partnering with our sister agencies to increase employee benefits.