Selection Process
This method is used to assess an applicant’s job-related training, experience, education, accomplishments, and KSAs.
What is a Training and Experience Evaluation (T&E)?
These meeting types include: Face to face, Video Conferencing, and Teleconferencing.
What is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) meeting?
These establish a minimal competence level and determine which candidates will progress in the selection process.
What are Pass Points?
This form is created by selection analysts with SMEs as part of the Job Analysis to define MQ terminology and approved/unapproved experience.
What is the 511B?
Although they are not law, they identify acceptable methods of establishing the job-relatedness of a selection procedure.
What are Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures?
This process ensures unbiased hiring based on merit.
What is a Merit-based selection process?
A discrete sentence describing the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics required to perform the essential functions of a job.
What is a KSA Statement?
The level at which a minimally qualified candidate or incumbent would perform on a particular job.
What are Minimally Acceptable Competence (MAC) levels?
These pattern types include: Promotional, open, and educational.
What are Minimum Qualification patterns?
This regulation governs the hiring process for appointments.
What is California Code of Regulations 250 (Rule 250)?
This examination type is commonly used to assess mechanical ability, cognitive ability, situational judgment, reading comprehension, job knowledge, and problem solving/decision making skills.
What is a written examination?
The extent to which a measurement reflects the specific intended domain of content.
What is content validity?
A tool used by raters that provides behavioral descriptions to help identify the effectiveness of a response.
What is a benchmark?
This process is explored when two or more patterns are used to meet the Minimum Qualifications.
What is combining patterns?
This manual establishes operational standards and guidelines for conducting selection processes for the State’s civil services.
What is the State Personnel Board Merit Selection Manual?
A formal, systematic, and standardized process, using a controlled environment with the same testing conditions, questions, and scoring criteria.
What is a structured interview?
A discrete sentence containing one action verb that concisely describes a single observable activity and addresses important aspects of the job.
What is a task statement?
This plan includes an examination base, locations, list types, list life, re-test periods, and limited scoring methods.
What is an examination plan?
This legal document that defines the job duties, class level, series, MQs, and KSAs or KSAOs of a position.
What is the Classification Specification?
The official compilation and publication of the regulations adopted, amended or repealed by state agencies pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
What is the California Code of Regulations?
The process of systematically identifying the essential tasks and functions performed in a classification and identifying the competencies that are required to perform those essential tasks and functions.
What is the job analysis process?
This tool is used to collect demographic information and job-related data from multiple Subject Matter Experts simultaneously.
What is a survey?
A list established with the names of candidates who successfully passed the examination process.
What is an eligibility list?
Candidates who do not meet the Minimum Qualifications shall be removed from the employment list through this process.
What is the Withhold Process?
These regulations provide requirements for evaluating a candidate’s experience when determining whether or not they meet the minimum qualifications and explain how experience should be calculated.
What are California Code of Regulations 171 and 171.1?