Service Specialist Iii - Temporary Oahu

Recruitment Information

Recruitment Number 25-0326. Temporary full-time positions with the Department of Labor & Industrial Relations, Workforce Development Division in Downtown. Salary: $4,961 to $6,043 per month (SR-20, Step D to I). This posting will remain open until 40 applications are received. Please apply immediately as it may close at any time.

Note:

Employees appointed to temporary positions may also gain membership in the civil service upon satisfactory completion of an initial probation period of at least six months. Once you become a member of the civil service, you become eligible to apply for promotion and transfer opportunities to permanent as well as other temporary positions. You may also enjoy other rights and benefits afforded to a permanent employee with the exception of return rights and placement rights associated with a reduction‑in‑force.

The Employment Service Specialist III represents the full journey‑worker level in the series. The position provides employment services for a full range of clients involving job placement, job development, employer relations and vocational counseling and guidance; or develops and negotiates on‑the‑job training contracts for clients; or provides special employer representative activities and fact‑finding required for alien employment certification; and performs other related duties as assigned.

At this level, work is planned and performed independently with recourse to the supervisor for advice and guidance only on unusual difficulties or where the matter relates to the interpretation and application of new policies, rules or regulations.

Legal Authorization To Work

State of Hawai‘i requires all persons seeking employment with the government of the State to be citizens, nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States, or eligible under federal law for unrestricted employment in the United States.

Basic Education

A bachelor's degree from an accredited four‑year college or university.

Specialized Experience

One and one‑half (1‑1/2) years of progressively responsible professional work experience in one or a combination of the following (Type A or Type

B).

• Obtaining applications for employment and assessing applicants’ qualifications in terms of skills, knowledge, suitability for employment or employment training.
• Determining job content and requirements.
• Developing methods and techniques for the improvement of personnel or employment programs.
• Referring applicants to suitable jobs.

This experience must have provided applicants with knowledge of various kinds of occupations and occupational requirements, employment interviewing or counseling, or personnel management principles, practices, and techniques.

Examples of qualifying experience: work as an employment interviewer, employment counselor or personnel specialist in a public or private employment agency, vocational counseling or guidance work, or other pertinent personnel management work.

Progressively responsible professional experience in the field of social work or related fields which involved assisting youths or adults with personal, social and emotional problems toward their resolution.

This experience must have involved counseling or guidance in situations where youths or adults had moderately difficult to difficult problems of grasping or understanding the nature of their problems, choosing between various courses of action possible, adjusting to environmental conditions and/or acquiring or sustaining proper motivation.

Examples of qualifying experience: work as a social caseworker or group worker in a public or private agency, parole‑probation counselor, student counselor, or religious counselor.

Non‑Qualifying Experience

Work experience not primarily concerned with employment interviewing, counseling, or guidance, or personnel work is not qualifying. For example, most office manager or supervisory experience is not considered qualifying if the paramount responsibility is not concerned with employment services or personnel recruitment and placement work, or counseling or guidance.

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