EMPLOYER SPOTLIGHT
Robert Esposito, Senior Vice President of Operations, The Times Square Alliance
The Times Square Alliance was founded in 1992 and works to improve and promote Times Square and to provide sanitation, public safety and supplemental services to the area which covers most of the territory from 40th Street to 53rd Street between 6th and 8th Avenues, as well as Restaurant Row (46th Street between 8th and 9th Avenue).
“Since July 2008, I have hired 23 people from CEO as sanitation workers, working part-time, three days a week. Their responsibilities include: emptying litter baskets, graffiti removal, painting light poles, fire hydrants and newsstands, vacuuming, scrubbing, washing and disinfecting sidewalks, and collecting and removing garbage bags. And when a full-time position opens up, we select from among the part-timers who already know how to do the job the way we do it here, so it’s a ‘win-win.’”
“There is no question that the key to the success of our partnership with CEO is the rapport I feel with CEO job developers who understand the kind of people we need and who have taken the time to understand our operation. The part-time to full-time arrangement enables me to uncover “diamonds-in-the rough,” to find and to keep qualified people part-time until full-time positions become available, and in that way, I remain ahead of the game.”
See past Employer Spotlights:
Props for Today, Spring 2009
C.S. Brown, Winter 2009
CitiStorage, Fall 2008