Service Specialist Vi Oahu

Recruitment Number 25-0160 Recruitment Information

Department of Labor & Industrial Relations, Workforce Development Division has one (1) permanent full-time and one (1) temporary full-time vacancy in Downtown.

Salary: $6,535 to $7,952 per month (SR-26, Step D to I).

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Hiring rates will be based on availability of funds, the applicant's qualifications, and other relevant factors.

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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 an employee in a permanent position with the exception of return rights and placement rights associated with a reduction-in-force.

This continuous recruitment may be closed at any time. The notice of the last day to file applications will be posted on the State of Hawaii's Civil Service Job Opportunities Listing page of our website.

Plans, organizes, directs, manages and controls the employment service activities of an extensively organized office where the work is so intense as to require two levels of subordinate supervisors; or plans and supervises the development, evaluation and planning functions for a major employment service program requiring the assistance of lower-level journeyman program specialists; and performs other related duties as assigned.

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

Graduation from an accredited four (4) year college or university with a bachelor's degree.

Three and one-half (3 1/2) years of progressively responsible professional work experience in one or a combination of Type A or Type B experience below:

• Obtaining applications for employment and assessing applicants' qualifications in terms of skills, knowledge, suitability for employment or employment training; OR
• Determining job content and requirements; OR
• Developing methods and techniques for the improvement of personnel or employment programs; and OR
• 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 are 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 are work as a social caseworker or group worker in a public or private agency, parole-probation counselor, student counselor, or religious counselor.

Work experience which is not primarily concerned with employment interviewing, counseling, or guidance, or personnel work is not qualifying for these positions. For example, most work experience as an office manager or in a supervisory or managerial position includes responsibility for personnel functions. However, if the paramount responsibility of the position is not concerned with employment services or personnel recruitment and placement work, or counseling or guidance, such experience is NOT considered qualifying.

ONE (1) year of either staff specialist and/or supervisory experience as described in A or B below:

• Experience in the field of employment services, personnel administration or related fields which included: planning, organizing, administration scheduling and directing the work of others; assigning and reviewing their work; advising them on difficult work problems; training and developing subordinates; and evaluating their work performance.
• Experience in the field of employment services, personnel administration, or related fields as a staff specialist which involved work such as conducting studies and making recommendations for the development or revisions of standards, policies,…