All permanent jobs with the State of California require the applicant to very first use for and take the exam for the task title or category in which you are interested. Remember, all Exams are not offered on a constant basis. Therefore, it is a potential candidate’s responsibility to seek readily available “open” Exam Announcements or Recruitments on our Jobs Page or at State Personnel Boards’ listings at http://www.jobs.ca.gov.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA – Civil Service Exam and Hiring Process
After you have actually successfully gotten and passed a test you are put on the category’s licensed Eligibilty List (or working with list). We can just employ candidates from these certified lists. Then, once on this list, you are qualified to request a job vacancy. This is the State Civil Service Exam and Hiring Process and is open to all despite race, color, creed, national origin, origins, sex, marital status, disability, religious or political affiliation, age, or sexual preference. California residency is not needed, and U.S. citizenship is needed only for peace officer (Ranger/Lifeguard/Dispatcher) jobs.
STATE CIVIL SERVICE EXAM and HIRING PROCESS
1. Submit State Application for Exam
2. Take a Test
3. Get on an Eligibility List
4. Find a Job and Apply
5. Take part in a hiring Interview
Step 1: Submit State Application (STD 678) – to take the certification examination
The State Application is utilized to get all exams and job vacancies and may be finished online. Before completing an application to request a test, setup your profile account at the “My Profile” tab at http://www.jobs.ca.gov. Once you have actually completed this step, look for offered examinations and apply. All irreversible positions need an applicant to take and pass a credentials examination for the task classification title. Once you’ve done this and are put on the classification’s “Eligibility List”, you may then get job vacancies because category. To discover our examination chances go to our Jobs Page http://www.parks.ca.gov/jobs and click “Exam Opportunities” or see the list of available Online Exams – You can also discover examinations and vacancies in our “Career Opportunity Bulletin”.
How to get an exam- You will require to complete and submit a State Application as suggested on the Exam Announcement. NOTE: Depending on the type of test, you will send a hard-copy of your application to the Department or you will use directly online for the Exam of your choice. In this case, you will send your Application-on-file online as you obtain the Exam.
Carefully read the Exam Announcement to discover where and how to apply. Minimum Qualifications to use are also noted in the statement. We suggest you stress and highlight education and experience on your application form that a lot of directly matches what is required to receive the examination. If your application meets these requirements for the examination, you will be informed by mail with a test date. NOTE: Online Exam information in Step 2.
Step 2: Take a Test – to receive future vacancies
In-house Departmental Exams
After you send your application to take a test, our workers office reviews your application to identify whether you fulfill the examination requirements and will notify you by mail with the time, place and date of the examination. These kinds of examinations may be in the type of a several option test, an efficiency exam (like for a Heavy Equipment Operator), or a Credentials Appraisal Interview – or commonly called, oral test. With all types of examinations, every qualified applicant is asked the very same concerns.
If you have not gotten your notice within 30-days from the test’s application final filing date, call our Exam Unit at (916) 653-9685 to verify your application fulfilled the minimum qualifications.
Online Exams
There are a range of online tests readily available. These kinds of tests are in the type of a survey that evaluate your academic, professional, and volunteer work experience to insure you meet the requirements for the specific category. These types of tests are self-directed and need an applicant to first create an Application-on-file at the “My Profile” tab at http://www.jobs.ca.gov (See Online Exams at http://www.parks.ca.gov/jobs for a list of online tests utilized at California State Parks.)
Once you’ve developed your Application-on-file, you can then take a particular classification’s qualification test. Then, upon finishing and “passing” the exam you will be eligible to look for open jobs in the classification for which you just checked. For a complete list of statewide online examinations go to: https://jobs.ca.gov/CalHRPublic/Search/ExamSearch.aspx
To get ready for the examination, we recommend you pay attention to what is listed in the “Test Scope” area of the exam announcement. Here you discover specific locations of knowledge, skills, and abilities that normal exam questions will be based. Focusing on these will help you achieve success on the test. The kind of examination (composed or oral interview-style) will be suggested in the “Exam Information” area of the announcement. Click here for more Exam Preparation ideas and for more on the numerous Types of State Civil Service Exams.
Step 3: Get on an Eligibility List – utilized by the department to employ applicants
Successful exam applicants will be positioned on the category’s Eligibility List and divided into ranks by rating. Candidates in “obtainable” ranks (Ranks 1, 2, or 3) might be thought about for hire and are for that reason eligible to use and talk to for open jobs at State Parks. The Eligibility List is fluid, suggesting as individuals are either worked with or eliminated from the list, individuals listed below Rank 3 may move up into the 3rd and obtainable rank. Therefore, if you passed the test consider getting jobs in the category because the eligibility list might not yet be upgraded on State Personnel Board’s system.
Step 4: Find a Job and Apply
Now that you have actually taken an examination and received your outcomes, the next step is to discover a vacant position in the category for which you evaluated and use by sending a State Application Form.
There are many methods to find available vacancies:
Contact Letters – These are letters sent to those candidates in reachable ranks for current jobs. If you receive a Contact Letter and stop working to respond to this job query, your name may end up being “non-active” for that eligibility list. If you decrease or do not react to 3 such letters, your name will be eliminated from the list.
Web-based Vacant Position Database (WVPOS) – Register For the eNotify System which permits you to enter your email address to be informed when job vacancies are included. You will receive emails on existing jobs throughout California State Service and might get any position marketed, as long as you have actually taken and passed its exam.
Department Vacancy List – This list is offered at http://www.parks.ca.gov/jobs under Current Vacancies (right column). Job opportunities are also listed in our Career Opportunity Bulletin. Copies are available online from the certification unit, 1416 9th Street, Room 1018, Sacramento, CA 95814 or phone: (916) 653-3919.
Step 5: Take part in a hiring interview
The department will call you if they wish to interview you. The working with interview is developed to identify the finest job-to-person match for the vacancy. Before you go to your interview, familiarize yourself with the position’s task declaration in addition to the department’s mission and functions and how the task for which you are interview contributes. NOTE: You can get a copy of the Duty Statement from the contact individual listed in the Vacancy Announcement.