New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

HR-96 (12/19)

Posting #: 2023-69 Issue Date: 03/09/2023 Closing Date: 04/09/2023

Title: Employment Services Trainee

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

Unit Scope: Statewide Public/Private

Location: Cape May, Union City,

Trenton, New Brunswick,

Elizabeth, Perth Amboy, Newton,

Sewell-One Stop Career Center

Workweek: 35 # Vacancies: 8

Job Description
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.

Employee Benefit(s)
The Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) provides many employee benefits to acknowledge, and value, their

contribution. Statewide benefits include:

• Alternate Work Week* • Telework*

• Deferred Compensation • 100% Tuition Reimbursement*

• Health and Life Insurance • Flexible and Health Spending Accounts (FSA)/(HSA)

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) • Temporary Expanded PSLF (TEPSLF) Programs

• Pursuant to the Department’s policy, procedures and/or guidelines.

Civil Service Commission Requirements (Education/Experience/Licenses)
EDUCATION: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree. Applicants must submit a copy of your unofficial

transcripts to verify the required credits earned. Failure to submit unofficial transcripts with your resume may result in your ineligibility.

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

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.

COUNTY PREFERENCE FORM NOTE: Applicants must complete the County Preference Form. Failure to return the completed County

Preference Form may result in your inability to be considered for the County of your choice.

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.

SAME APPLICANTS:If you are applying under the NJ “SAME” program, your supporting documents (Schedule A or B letter), must be

submitted along with your resume by the closing date indicated above. For more information on the SAME Program visit their Website at:

https://nj.gov/csc/same/overview/index.shtml , email: SAME@csc.nj.gov , or call CSC at (833) 691-0404.

TO APPLY

If you qualify, please submit a letter of interest, transcript, and your resume (including the best contact number and email address)

to email address listed below. Your submission must be received by the closing date and include the job posting number.

EMAIL:

Human Capital Strategies

Recruitment Unit

LWDJobPostings@dol.nj.gov

Subject line must include the specify job posting number.

• Newly hired employees must agree to a thorough background check that may 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

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

County Preference Form

Name:

Posting Number:

Title:

Please check the county (or counties) of preference for the above position and return this form with your
cover letter and resume. Please only check those counties where you will accept employment, if offered. A
failure to accept employment when offered in a county you indicated, will remove you from consideration
for all counties. (There is no guarantee that you will be employed in that County if selected for the position.)

Atlantic Bergen Burlington Camden Cape May Cumberland Essex

Gloucester Ocean

Hudson Passaic

Hunterdon Salem

Mercer Somerset

Middlesex Sussex

Monmouth Union

Morris Warren

Failure to return the completed County Preference Form with your cover letter and resume may result in your

inability to be considered for the County of your choice.

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.