Posting #: 2022-099 Issue Date: 3/31/2022 Closing Date: TBD

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

Unit Scope: Statewide Public/Private

Locations: Camden, Cumberland, Jersey
City, Newark, Passaic, Pleasantville, Toms
River or Trenton Workweek: 35 # Vacancies: 50

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 Supervisor in Unemployment Insurance, as a trainee and productive worker, the ES Trainee assists in
examining and determining eligibility or ineligibility of claims for Unemployment Insurance based on New Jersey
Unemployment Insurance Law. When necessary, contacts employers and claimants by email, mail or telephone in order to
secure needed documentation to make a claim determination. Assists in conducting fact-finding interviews and resolves
discrepancies with claimants, employers, etc. in order to properly determine claims.

Civil Service Commission Requirements (Education/Experience/Licenses)

*If you previously applied to posting 2021-194, you do not need to reapply*

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.

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.

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 Claims Examiner UI/DI 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.

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.

HR-96 (12/19)

TO APPLY for this Position
If you qualify and would like to be considered, submit a letter of interest 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 include the Posting number.

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

• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States according to the Department of Homeland

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

EMAIL:
Human Capital Strategies
Recruitment Unit
LWDJobPostings@dol.nj.gov

• Subject line must specify complete job posting number

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 Tennille R. McCoy, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Human Capital Strategies

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.