NJ civil service, explained in short videos

Each video takes one question people ask about New Jersey civil service and answers it from the rules and the data this site publishes: how a job is filled, how exam scores become a ranked list, how veterans preference works, what a salary step is, how titles are classified, and what the Civil Service Commission decides. They are short, captioned and start without sound. Every one has its own page with chapters, the full transcript, a table of every figure it states with the file that figure is read from, and the text of each rule it quotes.

• Competitive, noncompetitive, unclassified1 min 28 s, captions and transcript

  How New Jersey sorts civil service titles, what each group means for how you get the job, and why the law says career service, not classified.

  Chapters: How titles are sorted, Competitive, Noncompetitive, Unclassified, Why not "classified".

• How a NJ civil service job gets filled1 min 37 s, captions and transcript

  From announcement to working test period: the exam, the ranked list, the certification and the rule of three, as New Jersey's rules set them out.

  Chapters: The three steps, The announcement and the exam, The eligible list, Certification and the rule of three, The working test period.

• How NJ salary steps work1 min 42 s, captions and transcript

  A real A-P-R-S range, step by step, when you move up, and what a schedule frozen since 2007 is worth after inflation.

  Chapters: Step schedules, A real range, When you move up, Frozen schedules and inflation.

• Reading your exam results and your list1 min 21 s, captions and transcript

  What your rank means, why it can differ from your score, how ties work, how long a list lasts, and the deadlines for an exam appeal.

  Chapters: Score and rank, How lists are ordered, Ties, How long a list lasts, Appeal deadlines.

• Veterans preference is ranking, not points1 min 22 s, captions and transcript

  In New Jersey, veterans preference changes where you sit on the list, not your score. How it works on open competitive and promotional lists.

  Chapters: Ranking, not points, Open competitive lists, Promotional lists, Who decides veteran status.

• What the Civil Service Commission decides1 min 37 s, captions and transcript

  The appeals the NJ Civil Service Commission decides, the appeal window for discipline and its exceptions, and how to find decisions about your title.

  Chapters: What the Commission is, What it decides, The appeal window, The record, by the numbers, Finding decisions on your title.

The narration is synthetic speech generated on our own computer, and the captions are timed to it word by word. The figures are read from the same data files the rest of the site renders, so when the data is refreshed the videos are rendered again rather than left to drift. These are explainers, not legal advice, and NJ Civil Service Navigator is an independent reference, not the Civil Service Commission.