_token_black t1_isyety2 wrote on October 19, 2022 at 4:42 PM

Reply to comment by randym99 in PPD audit: Review identifies flaws that affect crime response by Easy-Reading

Paying more and filling jobs within a reasonable amount of time. From anecdotes of people who have gone through the process, it takes months to go from application to decision, if you hear back at all.

Most people don't have the luxury of sitting around waiting for an answer. After a while, they'll go get a job somewhere else, probably in the private sector making more. I'm sure people want to work for the city, but when you couple low pay with a process that moves at a snail's pace, it's no surprise that vacancies seem to never get filled.

randym99 t1_isyfz4i wrote on October 19, 2022 at 4:49 PM

That makes sense - I wonder who is responsible for / who could improve that. Of course Kenney / our next Mayor who actually gives a shit could and should make that a priority but the mayor is not the one that would actually be implementing it. Surely there's some office of HR or something we should be directing our concerns to. Oh I guess that quote above actually specifies the OHR haha:

https://www.phila.gov/departments/office-of-human-resources/

I'll check the budget detail and see if they talk about hiring timeline targets, but I doubt it.

Update: yep, OHR has 32 full time employees and, unless I'm missing something, only 2 performance targets listed, related to producing civil service eligible lists, whatever those are. I was hoping to see something like # of positions unfilled and for how long.

https://www.phila.gov/media/20220901170313/Mayors-FY2023-Operating-Budget-Detail-Book-I-Adopted.pdf, pgs 1133-1135