He wants YOU for NYC!
Mayor Eric Adams has been taking a page out of Uncle Sam’s book — hitting the streets to personally recruit Recent Yorkers to use for city jobs.
The mayor was spotted by The Post handing out flyers promoting a city jobs fair at York College during an unannounced stop along with his staff on the Long Island Rail Road station in Jamaica, Queens last Thursday.
A December evaluation by city Comptroller Brad Lander’s office estimated there have been 23,000 vacancies within the Big Apple’s 35 municipal agencies last fall — though budget tightening has reduced that figure to about 20,000.
Within the Department of Social Services’ Child Support Services division, there was a whopping 46% emptiness rate, with 415 employees out of a slotted 775 positions, the report said.
Town’s Cyber Command, charged with protecting Recent York’s cybersecurity, had a 36% emptiness rate.
Nearly a 3rd of positions were vacant within the Department of Small Business Services, while the emptiness rate was 23% within the Buildings Department, 21% within the City Planning Department, 20% within the Department of Social Services and 17% in each the departments of Health & Mental Hygiene and Environmental Protection.
Adams admitted there are millions of vacancies that should be filled to run the federal government — and said it’s as much as him and his administration to aggressively get the word out to Recent Yorkers that there are plentiful good jobs available.
Mayor Eric Adams handed out flyers for a city jobs fair at York College at an unannounced stop on the Jamaica, Queens Long Island Rail Road station on April 30, 2023.Twitter/@NYCMayor
Adams speaking at a city government “Hiring Hall” event on April 28, 2023.Twitter/@NYCMayor
“Often times we discuss vacancies in city agencies. But then in case you ask the people in government that talk concerning the vacancies… you ask them, ‘but what are you doing about filling them?’ They don’t have a solution,” said the mayor and latest job recruiter.
Adams has also shown more flexibility about allowing more employees to work remotely after initially resisting the thought.
Robert Chamon, a married dad of two, thanked the mayor for spreading the town jobs information during his visit to the LIRR stop.
“It’s good, good, really good. I’m just going for a job interview today so if it doesn’t work out, I can apply at this one,” Chamon said.
An evaluation last December by Comptroller Brad Lander’s office found that there have been 23,000 vacancies at the town’s 35 municipal agencies.Twitter/@NYCMayor
In the town’s Department of Social Services’ Child Support Services division there was a 46% emptiness rate for jobs, based on the report.Twitter/@NYCMayor
Lander said the mayor’s job freeze coupled with massive upheaval within the broader labor market through the coronavirus outbreak dramatically increased the emptiness rate.
Last fall, the citywide rate stood at just below 8%, far greater than the pre-COVID rate of about 2%.
“While it can be crucial to discover positions which can be not needed, current vacancies look like driven way more by where there’s private sector competition for employees, reasonably than by any assessment of need or priority,” Lander said. “The result’s a severe lack of capability to get things done in mission-critical areas, from creating latest housing to providing services to low-income children to collecting the revenue the City needs to operate.”
