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Councilman Prods DCAS To Expedite Hiring Lists

By DAN ROSENBLUM
Posted 4/6/15

The time between a candidate taking a civil-service exam and a list being established has fallen by six months, according to the most recent statistics. Still, Ben Kallos, the Chair of the City Council’s Governmental Operations Committee...is asking the Department of Citywide Administrative Services to adjust its goals to encourage even more progress in the future and to better diversify the city’s applicant pool.

In figures compiled in the Preliminary Mayor’s Management Report, the median time from exam administration to establishment of a hiring list declined from 439 days during July to October 2013 to 244 days last year.

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