HR-96 (12/19)

Posting # 2022-373 Issue Date: 12/16/2022 Closing Date: 12/30/2022

Title: Employment Services Trainee Veteran

Services

Range/Title Code: P95/64790D Salary: $46,431.86 - $48,531.07

Unit Scope: Statewide Public/Private

Location: Union-One Stop Career

Center

Workweek: 35 # Vacancies: 1

Job Description

The Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) provides many benefits to employees to acknowledge and value

their contribution. Statewide benefits include health insurance, pension, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)/Health Savings

Accounts (HSA), life insurance, deferred compensation and more. The DOL also provides tuition reimbursement (after nine months

of employment), a higher education program, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and Temporary Expanded PSLF

(TEPSLF) Programs, and employee training. The DOL also provides options for participation in the Telework, Alternate

Workweek or Flextime Programs pursuant to the Department’s policy.

Under direction of a supervisory official in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, as a trainee and productive

worker in a local employment office, does work involved in interviewing and classifying job applicants for employment; makes

field and office investigations to determine applicant eligibility for employment disability benefits and/or unemployment insurance;

assists in making investigations involved in observance of Title 34, New Jersey Statutes, or in administration of sections of the

Prevailing Wage Act for which the office is responsible; does other related duties as required.

Civil Service Commission Requirements (Education/Experience/License

EDUCATION: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree. Applicants must submit a copy of

your final unofficial transcripts, which indicates the date your degree was conferred, and the type of degree awarded. Failure to

submit final unofficial transcripts with your resume may result in your ineligibility.

SPECIAL NOTE:Appointments to this title will be made in accordance with Title 38 United States Chapter 41: (1) Disabled

Veterans, (2) Veterans, and (3) otherwise qualified persons as specified. Appointees to this position must meet the definition of

"eligible persons" as defined by Title 38 United States Code Chapter 41.

VETERANS PREFERENCE: Are you a veteran? If so, proof of your NJ Veterans Preference is required at application. Please

provide a copy of your New Jersey Civil Service Commission NOTIFICATION OF VETERANS STATUS along with your cover

letter and resume. For information on how to apply for Veterans Preference in the State of NJ, please visit the Civil Service

Commission's website at http://www.state.nj.us/csc/seekers/veterans.

ADVANCEMENT: Appointees who successfully complete the 12-month training period will be eligible for advancement to the

title Interviewer (Veteran Services) in accordance with Civil Service Commission procedures. The inability of an employee in a

trainee title to attain a level of performance warranting advancement shall be considered cause for separation.

RESUME NOTE: Eligibility determinations will be based only upon information presented on the resume along with other

supporting documents. Applicants who possess a degree from a college or university outside the United States must provide an

evaluation of the transcripts from a recognized evaluation service at the time of submission. Failure to do so may result in your

ineligibility.

LICENSE: Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather

than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.

TO APPLY for this Position

If you qualify and would like to be considered, submit a letter of interest, transcript, and your resume (including daytime phone

number, and email address) to the person and email address listed below. You must submit your response by the closing date shown

above, and must include the Posting number.

PLEASE SEND COVER LETTER, AND RESUME TO:

Human Capital Strategies, Recruitment

LWDJobPostings@dol.nj.gov

• Please put complete posting number in subject line.

This is not a promotional announcement for a Civil Service Examination.

This posting may result in personnel actions which will require final approval by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development

and the Civil Service Commission in accordance with Civil Service Commission rules and regulations.

Job Posting Authorized by Chai Respes, Deputy Director, Human Capital Strategies

• Newly hired employees must agree to a thorough background check that will include fingerprinting.
• Any appointments made from postings which involve movement between unit scopes, may result in a forfeiture of rights to any

promotional list in a former

unit scope.

• As of September 2010, in accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14-7, the “New Jersey First Act,” all new employees must reside in the State of

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

In accordance with the Uniform Ethics Code adopted by the NJ State Ethics Commission and the State Policy Prohibiting

Discrimination in the Workplace, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

(NJ DOL) requires the disclosure of all relatives, consensual personal relationships, and cohabitants. No NJ DOL employee

may supervise or exercise any authority with regard to personnel actions involving their relative, anyone with whom there is a

consensual personal relationship, or anyone with whom they cohabit.

Relative means an individual’s spouse/domestic partner/civil union partner1 or the individual or spouse’s/domestic

partner’s/civil union partner’s parent, child, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, cousin, grandparent, grandchild, son-in-

law, daughter-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother or half-sister, whether the relative is related to

the individual or the individual’s spouse/domestic partner/civil union partner by blood, marriage or adoption.

Consensual personal relationship means marriage, engagement, dating or other ongoing romantic or sexual relationships.

Cohabitant means non-related persons who share a household under circumstances where there is financial interdependence.

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development requires the disclosure of all relatives and consensual

personal relationships to be promptly reported directly to the Division of Human Capital Strategies (HCS) - Director’s Office.

Confidentiality shall be maintained to the extent possible and practicable. This information may be shared with NJ DOL’s

Equal Employment Opportunity Office and/or the NJ DOL Ethics Office as deemed necessary. Upon receiving notice of the

relationship, HCS may address any situation as necessary in consultation with the EEO Office and/or the Ethics Officer. This

may include, but is not limited to, the changing of reporting relationships or transferring any of the employees involved. Failure

to provide notification to HCS may result in discipline up to and including termination and the denial of legal representation

and indemnification by the State in the event that a lawsuit is filed having a connection with a personal relationship. Employees

are under a continuing obligation to promptly report personal relationships that develop during the course of their employment.

I DO NOT have a relative or a consensual personal relationship, as defined above, with anyone working for the New Jersey

Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

I DO have a relative or a consensual personal relationship, as defined above, with anyone working for the New Jersey

Department of Labor and Workforce Development identified as follows:

Name Relationship Division and Work Location

Do you need more space for disclosure? Yes No If YES, continue writing on the back of this form.

I certify that the information on this form to the best of my knowledge and belief is true, complete and accurate. I understand

that any misleading or incorrect information, willful misstatement, or omission of a material fact, may be just cause for

disciplinary action up to and including termination. I understand my obligation to promptly report personal relationships that

develop during the course of my employment.

1 Domestic Partner as defined in NJSA 26:8A-1 et. seq. and Civil Union status as defined in NJSA 37:1-28 et. seq.