Laura Curran
Laura Curran is hiring: LIBRARIAN I, BILINGUAL (SPANISH SPEAKING) in Town of Hem
Laura Curran, Town of Hempstead, NY, United States
ANNOUNCED FOR:
NASSAU COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT LIBRARIES, VILLAGE LIBRARIES, AND SPECIAL DISTRICT LIBRARIES
SALARY: Varies according to jurisdiction.
REISSUED ANNOUNCEMENT
Applications will be accepted year-round. However, applications will be reviewed in groups, and passing candidates will be added to the continuous recruitment eligible list twice a year based on a process to commence subsequent to the filing deadlines of the last business day of July and the last business day of January.
NOTE: The Commission reserves the right to alter any and all aspects of this examination program, including but not limited to, adding names to the list and re-filing and eligibility time frames.
Names of successful candidates will be certified on the eligible list in score order, regardless of when the application was rated. Names of successful candidates will be removed from the eligible list at the time of appointment to a full or part-time position or two years after being placed on the list.
Candidates may re-file for this examination one year after being placed on the list. However, a candidate can only have one score on the list. Only the candidate's higher score, whether it's the existing score or the newer score, will appear on the list. If a candidate's new score is higher, then the existing score will be removed from the list and the new score will be put on. The new score will remain until the candidate is appointed or two years transpire.
If the candidate's new score is lower than the existing score, then the existing score will remain on the list until the candidate is appointed or two years (from the original date of that score being added to the list) transpires. Once the existing, higher score is removed from the list, the newer, lower score will be added. The newer, lower score will remain on the list until the candidate is appointed or two years (from the date that application was rated) transpires.
Performs entry-level professional librarian duties; performs related duties as required. Must be met by the day the application is submitted:
Possession of a New York State Public Librarian's Professional Certificate.
NOTE: If you have not previously submitted a copy of your professional library certificate to the Civil Service Commission, you must include a copy with your application.
HOW TO APPLY:
ONLINE APPLICATIONS are available at www.nassaucivilservice.com. The advantages of filing electronically include the storage of submitted applications in your personal user account and application processing fee payment by credit/debit card.
PLEASE NOTE: Computers are available to file electronic applications in our office at 40 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Hempstead, NY from 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM, Monday thru Friday. In accordance with our goal of making the Nassau County Civil Service Commission a paperless agency, no hard copy application is available.
FEE: NON-REFUNDABLE Processing Fee must be submitted for each separately numbered examination for which you apply. This fee must be paid by credit or debit card.
CAREFULLY REVIEW THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS ON THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO ENSURE THAT YOU MEET THEM, AS THIS IS A NON-REFUNDABLE PROCESSING FEE. Applications submitted without proper payment will be rejected without review.
APPLICATION FEE WAIVER: A waiver of application fee will be allowed if you are unemployed and primarily responsible for the support of a household. In addition, a waiver of application fee will be allowed if you are determined eligible for Medicaid, or receiving Supplemental Security Income payments, or Public Assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families/Family Assistance or Safety Net Assistance) or are certified Job Training Partnership Act/Workforce Investment Act eligible through a State or local social service agency. Active-duty military service members and military veterans shall be exempt from the payment of application fees. All claims for application fee waiver are subject to verification.
SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION: This examination will consist of two parts:
1. A rated evaluation of training and experience and;
2. A qualifying Spanish language oral proficiency test. You must pass both tests in order to be eligible for appointment. Only your rating on the evaluation of training and experience will be considered when computing final scores.
TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE EVALUATION
There will be no written test for this examination. If you meet the minimum qualifications, you will receive a rating based upon an evaluation of your training and experience against the duties of the position being tested.
Candidates must first complete an online examination application and electronically submit it to the Nassau County Civil Service Commission.
Applications will be reviewed twice a year as follows:
NOTE: CANDIDATES WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL ON THE TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE PORTION OF THIS EXAMINATION WILL, AT A LATER DATE, BE REQUIRED TO SATISFACTORILY DEMONSTRATE THEIR FLUENCY WITH THE SPANISH LANGUAGE BY MEANS OF AN ORAL EXAMINATION.
IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CANDIDATE TO NOTIFY THIS COMMISSION, IN WRITING, OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME, MAILING/LEGAL/EMAIL ADDRESS, OR PHONE NUMBER: INDICATE EXAMINATION NUMBER AND TITLE, AND YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
DISABLED VETERANS: Visit our homepage at www.nassaucivilservice.com to view information (including a downloadable credit request form) on a recent amendment to the New York Constitution regarding the award and use of additional credits for certain disabled veterans on civil service examinations.
GENERAL INFORMATION
1. APPLYING: Inquiries should be directed to the Executive Director, Nassau County Civil Service Commission. The Commission does not accept responsibility for non-delivery or delivery delays of emails due to issues with your email account. The Commission reserves the right to reject for lateness or to accept applications filed after the advertised filing period.
2. TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE: The burden of establishing qualifications to the satisfaction of the Commission shall be upon the applicant. For the purpose of meeting the training and experience requirement of any examination, no credits shall be given for any work experience which is determined by the Commission to have been gained or acquired in violation of the provisions of the Civil Service Law.
Where required, certificates, licenses, and military separation papers (DD214) must be submitted with your application. Proof of claimed education, (copy of your high school diploma, Military, GED, New York State or comparable Equivalency Diploma) may be required to be submitted with the application. If education beyond high school is required, official transcripts must be submitted directly to us by the school.
3. THE EXAMINATION: The Commission reserves the right, after this announcement is issued, to subdivide the examination and/or require a specific passing mark in one or more of such subdivisions in order that a candidate be considered further for eligibility. Notice of such arrangement will be given in the examination instructions.
4. ELIGIBLE LISTS, PLACEMENT, AND ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT TO CERTAIN POSITIONS:
Vacancies: Eligible lists resulting from examinations may be limited to a sufficient number of passing candidates to fill vacancies. Additional candidates may be processed for certification from the lists as the need arises.
5. RESIDENCY: To fulfill the standard residency requirements, each candidate for open competitive examination must have been a bona fide resident and dweller of Nassau County for at least one year immediately preceding the advertised date of examination and maintain that residency until appointed from the eligible list established as a result of the examination. Preference in appointment may be given to successful candidates who are legal residents and dwellers of the appointing municipality. Appointing municipalities may, by virtue of local law, establish special residency requirements.
6. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: VETERAN’S CREDITS: A veteran may be granted additional credits to be added to a passing score of an examination, as follows:
Non Disabled Vet: Open Competitive Exam: 5 points; Promotion Exam: 2.5 points
Disabled Vet: Open Competitive Exam: 10 points; Promotion Exam: 5 points
The veteran must have: served on full-time active duty for purposes other than training; been honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances. In addition, beginning January 1, 1998, the NYS Constitution allows members of the US Armed Forces who are on active duty the right to request extra War Time Veterans credits on civil service examinations. Veteran’s credit may be requested for each examination until actually used, for appointment from a list. Credits may be used (the veteran was permanently appointed or promoted as a result of receiving the additional credits) once, with the following exception:
SECTIONS 85-A & 85-B: In conformance with sections 85-a and 85-b of the Civil Service Law, (85-a) children of firefighters and police officers killed in the line of duty and (85-b) siblings of firefighters and police officers having died in the performance of duty as a natural and proximate result of either the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001 or in the subsequent rescue effort, shall be entitled to receive an additional ten points in a competitive examination for original appointment in the same municipality in which his or her parent/sibling has served. #J-18808-Ljbffr
NASSAU COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT LIBRARIES, VILLAGE LIBRARIES, AND SPECIAL DISTRICT LIBRARIES
SALARY: Varies according to jurisdiction.
REISSUED ANNOUNCEMENT
Applications will be accepted year-round. However, applications will be reviewed in groups, and passing candidates will be added to the continuous recruitment eligible list twice a year based on a process to commence subsequent to the filing deadlines of the last business day of July and the last business day of January.
NOTE: The Commission reserves the right to alter any and all aspects of this examination program, including but not limited to, adding names to the list and re-filing and eligibility time frames.
Names of successful candidates will be certified on the eligible list in score order, regardless of when the application was rated. Names of successful candidates will be removed from the eligible list at the time of appointment to a full or part-time position or two years after being placed on the list.
Candidates may re-file for this examination one year after being placed on the list. However, a candidate can only have one score on the list. Only the candidate's higher score, whether it's the existing score or the newer score, will appear on the list. If a candidate's new score is higher, then the existing score will be removed from the list and the new score will be put on. The new score will remain until the candidate is appointed or two years transpire.
If the candidate's new score is lower than the existing score, then the existing score will remain on the list until the candidate is appointed or two years (from the original date of that score being added to the list) transpires. Once the existing, higher score is removed from the list, the newer, lower score will be added. The newer, lower score will remain on the list until the candidate is appointed or two years (from the date that application was rated) transpires.
Performs entry-level professional librarian duties; performs related duties as required. Must be met by the day the application is submitted:
Possession of a New York State Public Librarian's Professional Certificate.
NOTE: If you have not previously submitted a copy of your professional library certificate to the Civil Service Commission, you must include a copy with your application.
HOW TO APPLY:
ONLINE APPLICATIONS are available at www.nassaucivilservice.com. The advantages of filing electronically include the storage of submitted applications in your personal user account and application processing fee payment by credit/debit card.
PLEASE NOTE: Computers are available to file electronic applications in our office at 40 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Hempstead, NY from 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM, Monday thru Friday. In accordance with our goal of making the Nassau County Civil Service Commission a paperless agency, no hard copy application is available.
FEE: NON-REFUNDABLE Processing Fee must be submitted for each separately numbered examination for which you apply. This fee must be paid by credit or debit card.
CAREFULLY REVIEW THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS ON THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO ENSURE THAT YOU MEET THEM, AS THIS IS A NON-REFUNDABLE PROCESSING FEE. Applications submitted without proper payment will be rejected without review.
APPLICATION FEE WAIVER: A waiver of application fee will be allowed if you are unemployed and primarily responsible for the support of a household. In addition, a waiver of application fee will be allowed if you are determined eligible for Medicaid, or receiving Supplemental Security Income payments, or Public Assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families/Family Assistance or Safety Net Assistance) or are certified Job Training Partnership Act/Workforce Investment Act eligible through a State or local social service agency. Active-duty military service members and military veterans shall be exempt from the payment of application fees. All claims for application fee waiver are subject to verification.
SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION: This examination will consist of two parts:
1. A rated evaluation of training and experience and;
2. A qualifying Spanish language oral proficiency test. You must pass both tests in order to be eligible for appointment. Only your rating on the evaluation of training and experience will be considered when computing final scores.
TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE EVALUATION
There will be no written test for this examination. If you meet the minimum qualifications, you will receive a rating based upon an evaluation of your training and experience against the duties of the position being tested.
Candidates must first complete an online examination application and electronically submit it to the Nassau County Civil Service Commission.
Applications will be reviewed twice a year as follows:
- Applications received by the last business day in July will be reviewed in August. Approved candidates will be sent a notice containing directions to a website address needed to complete a Training and Experience Questionnaire, which will be available September 1, and approved candidates will be required to complete and submit this questionnaire between September 1 and midnight, September 30.
- Applications received by the last business day of January will be reviewed in February. Approved candidates will be sent a notice containing directions to a website address needed to complete a Training and Experience Questionnaire, which will be available March 1, and approved candidates will be required to complete and submit this questionnaire between March 1 and midnight, March 31.
NOTE: CANDIDATES WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL ON THE TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE PORTION OF THIS EXAMINATION WILL, AT A LATER DATE, BE REQUIRED TO SATISFACTORILY DEMONSTRATE THEIR FLUENCY WITH THE SPANISH LANGUAGE BY MEANS OF AN ORAL EXAMINATION.
IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CANDIDATE TO NOTIFY THIS COMMISSION, IN WRITING, OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME, MAILING/LEGAL/EMAIL ADDRESS, OR PHONE NUMBER: INDICATE EXAMINATION NUMBER AND TITLE, AND YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
DISABLED VETERANS: Visit our homepage at www.nassaucivilservice.com to view information (including a downloadable credit request form) on a recent amendment to the New York Constitution regarding the award and use of additional credits for certain disabled veterans on civil service examinations.
GENERAL INFORMATION
1. APPLYING: Inquiries should be directed to the Executive Director, Nassau County Civil Service Commission. The Commission does not accept responsibility for non-delivery or delivery delays of emails due to issues with your email account. The Commission reserves the right to reject for lateness or to accept applications filed after the advertised filing period.
2. TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE: The burden of establishing qualifications to the satisfaction of the Commission shall be upon the applicant. For the purpose of meeting the training and experience requirement of any examination, no credits shall be given for any work experience which is determined by the Commission to have been gained or acquired in violation of the provisions of the Civil Service Law.
Where required, certificates, licenses, and military separation papers (DD214) must be submitted with your application. Proof of claimed education, (copy of your high school diploma, Military, GED, New York State or comparable Equivalency Diploma) may be required to be submitted with the application. If education beyond high school is required, official transcripts must be submitted directly to us by the school.
3. THE EXAMINATION: The Commission reserves the right, after this announcement is issued, to subdivide the examination and/or require a specific passing mark in one or more of such subdivisions in order that a candidate be considered further for eligibility. Notice of such arrangement will be given in the examination instructions.
4. ELIGIBLE LISTS, PLACEMENT, AND ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT TO CERTAIN POSITIONS:
Vacancies: Eligible lists resulting from examinations may be limited to a sufficient number of passing candidates to fill vacancies. Additional candidates may be processed for certification from the lists as the need arises.
5. RESIDENCY: To fulfill the standard residency requirements, each candidate for open competitive examination must have been a bona fide resident and dweller of Nassau County for at least one year immediately preceding the advertised date of examination and maintain that residency until appointed from the eligible list established as a result of the examination. Preference in appointment may be given to successful candidates who are legal residents and dwellers of the appointing municipality. Appointing municipalities may, by virtue of local law, establish special residency requirements.
6. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: VETERAN’S CREDITS: A veteran may be granted additional credits to be added to a passing score of an examination, as follows:
Non Disabled Vet: Open Competitive Exam: 5 points; Promotion Exam: 2.5 points
Disabled Vet: Open Competitive Exam: 10 points; Promotion Exam: 5 points
The veteran must have: served on full-time active duty for purposes other than training; been honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances. In addition, beginning January 1, 1998, the NYS Constitution allows members of the US Armed Forces who are on active duty the right to request extra War Time Veterans credits on civil service examinations. Veteran’s credit may be requested for each examination until actually used, for appointment from a list. Credits may be used (the veteran was permanently appointed or promoted as a result of receiving the additional credits) once, with the following exception:
SECTIONS 85-A & 85-B: In conformance with sections 85-a and 85-b of the Civil Service Law, (85-a) children of firefighters and police officers killed in the line of duty and (85-b) siblings of firefighters and police officers having died in the performance of duty as a natural and proximate result of either the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001 or in the subsequent rescue effort, shall be entitled to receive an additional ten points in a competitive examination for original appointment in the same municipality in which his or her parent/sibling has served. #J-18808-Ljbffr