NYC Eric Adams is hitting the streets.
According to a report from The New York Post, Adams is desperate to fill thousands of vacant NYC jobs —so desperate, he’s even handing out information on the streets of New York City himself.
Estimates put NYC job vacancies at nearly 20,000.
From The New York Post:
In the Department of Social Services’ Child Support Services division, there was a whopping 46% vacancy rate, with 415 employees out of a slotted 775 positions, the report said.
The city’s Cyber Command, charged with protecting New York’s cybersecurity, had a 36% vacancy rate.
Nearly a third of positions were vacant in the Department of Small Business Services, while the vacancy rate was 23% in the Buildings Department, 21% in the City Planning Department, 20% in the Department of Social Services and 17% in both the departments of Health & Mental Hygiene and Environmental Protection.
Adams admitted there are thousands of vacancies that need to be filled to run the government — and said it’s up to him and his administration to aggressively get the word out to New Yorkers that there are plenty of good jobs available.
“Oftentimes we talk about vacancies in city agencies. But then if you ask the people in government that talk about the vacancies … you ask them, ‘But what are you doing about filling them?’ They don’t have an answer,” said the mayor and new job recruiter.
More over at The New York Post:
Eric Adams personally recruiting on the streets to fill vacant NYC jobs https://t.co/wscs9Nu1PL pic.twitter.com/f6BcVhepQp
— New York Post (@nypost) April 30, 2023