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Outar outlines training goals and career pathway development

New York City Council · Oct 16, 2026 · starts 0:43:37 · 1 min 18 sec

Outar says DCAS is identifying additional vendors, building better pathways into HR and IT training, and expanding virtual, in-person, and asynchronous options in the spring catalog.

Kadian Outar

In terms of our training goals, we are, one of the things that...

Kadian Outar

We do within the learning and development unit is a we're looking to see how can we make the training more accessible to individuals how can we collect feedback on what trainings what they're seeing what's working for them what's not and then looking at ways that we can engage other um

Kadian Outar

other sort of trainings that's where there's a gap so right now we're in the process of identifying additional vendors that we can use to provide more trainings to individuals so um for the

Kadian Outar

fall for the spring catalog that's coming up we're looking at how we can create better pathways into training.

Kadian Outar

So individuals who are maybe they're interested in taking on going into, let's say, HR path or an IT path, they'll have an idea in terms of what kinds of training they'll need to take in order to get there.

Kadian Outar

So we're really looking at, yes, we always want to increase.

Kadian Outar

We always want to make sure that we have, you know,

Kadian Outar

enough people that are aware of the trainings and are taking part in that, but we're also looking at the diversity of the training, the flexibility of the training.

Kadian Outar

Are we offering virtual trainings, in-person trainings?

Kadian Outar

We're also looking into trainings where folks can be, it's more asynchronous, so they are not necessarily tied to a nine to five, well, being at the center for a nine to five.