He desires YOU for NYC!
Mayor Eric Adams has been taking a web page out of Uncle Sam’s e-book — hitting the streets to personally recruit New Yorkers to apply for city jobs.
The mayor was noticed by The Put up handing out flyers selling a metropolis jobs truthful at York School throughout an unannounced cease together with his employees on the Lengthy Island Rail Highway station in Jamaica, Queens final Thursday.
A December analysis by metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander’s workplace estimated there have been 23,000 vacancies within the Huge Apple’s 35 municipal businesses final fall — although finances tightening has diminished that determine to about 20,000.
Within the Division of Social Companies’ Youngster Assist Companies division, there was a whopping 46% emptiness fee, with 415 staff out of a slotted 775 positions, the report mentioned.
The town’s Cyber Command, charged with defending New York’s cybersecurity, had a 36% emptiness fee.
Practically a 3rd of positions had been vacant within the Division of Small Enterprise Companies, whereas the emptiness fee was 23% within the Buildings Division, 21% within the Metropolis Planning Division, 20% within the Division of Social Companies and 17% in each the departments of Well being & Psychological Hygiene and Environmental Safety.
Adams admitted there are millions of vacancies that have to be stuffed to run the federal government — and mentioned it’s as much as him and his administration to aggressively get the phrase out to New Yorkers that there are plentiful good jobs out there.
“Typically occasions we discuss vacancies in metropolis businesses. However then when you ask the folks in authorities that discuss in regards to the vacancies… you ask them, ‘however what are you doing about filling them?’ They don’t have a solution,” mentioned the mayor and new job recruiter.
Adams has additionally proven extra flexibility about permitting extra staff to work remotely after initially resisting the concept.
Robert Chamon, a married dad of two, thanked the mayor for spreading town jobs info throughout his go to to the LIRR cease.
“It’s good, good, actually good. I’m simply going for a job interview at present so if it doesn’t work out, I can apply at this one,” Chamon mentioned.
Lander mentioned the mayor’s job freeze coupled with large upheaval within the broader labor market throughout the coronavirus outbreak dramatically elevated the emptiness fee.
Final fall, the citywide fee stood at slightly below 8%, far larger than the pre-COVID fee of about 2%.
“Whereas you will need to establish positions which are not wanted, present vacancies seem like pushed way more by the place there may be non-public sector competitors for staff, fairly than by any evaluation of want or precedence,” Lander mentioned. “The result’s a extreme lack of capability to get issues carried out in mission-critical areas, from creating new housing to offering companies to low-income youngsters to accumulating the income the Metropolis must perform.”
