Service Specialist Iv And V Oahu

Recruitment Number 26-0343

The current vacancies are permanent full-time and temporary full-time positions with the Department of Labor & Industrial Relations.

Note:

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

This recruitment will be used to establish a list of qualified candidates to fill current permanent full-time and temporary full-time vacancies, and may be used to fill future vacancies as they occur.

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 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.

Basic

Education:

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

Specialized

Experience:

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

Specialized

Experience:

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 (see below).

Progressively responsible full-time experience in the field of employment service, personnel administration.

OR related fields which involved one OR more of the following duties and responsibilities:

• 1) Obtaining applications for employment and assessing applicants' qualifications in terms of skills, knowledge, suitability for employment or employment training; OR
• 2) Determining job content and requirements; OR
• 3) Developing methods and techniques for the improvement of personnel or employment programs; and
• 4) 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.

Non-Qualifying

Experience:

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…