Make 2025 your year for success! The NYS Court Officer exam #45-843 applications are now available, with exam to be held in September 2025.
Numerous fresh grads with their public policy, political science, and degrees target their eyes at the Capitol Hill as their dream workplace to enter the political scene. They aspire to work their talking points, crafting legislation, and writing press releases. But landing a coveted job with meaningful job descriptions doesn’t come to newbies. They have …
Do you see yourself working for the local, state, and federal government? You’ll have to take the civil service exam to do so. The civil service system in the New York State is among the largest in the US, with approximately 150,000 employees in state government and 320,000 in the local government. Here’s all you need …
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Government jobs exist at three levels: federal, state, and local. Each level has various executive departments under it, each of which is tasked with administering some part of the government’s responsibilities. In essence, civil servants are administrators of government policies and the law. This doesn’t necessarily mean civil servants are exclusively located in executive departments; …
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Firefighting requires more than just physical endurance and strength: it also requires intimate knowledge of situations and science. Many firefighting departments typically evolve jargon to refer to different firefighting situations, events, objects, etc. Here are some of the terms every firefighter should get acquainted with before applying for a position. The Science of a Fire …
In the US, the Civil Service refers to the body of civilian, public sector employees that aren’t elected and aren’t serving in the military. The workers that comprise these government jobs are chosen through competitive examinations. The original intention behind these exams was to vet the most capable and competent applicants for the Civil Service. …
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Civil Services refer to a litany of government jobs tasked with administering the government’s responsibilities (i.e., its policies and laws). Civil servants are employed by some executive department at the local, state, or federal level. Executive branches of the state are tasked with administering government policies and laws (legislative and judicial branches are responsible for …
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If you want to get a job in the New York State civil services, you’ll go through an entirely different private-sector hiring process. Networking and connections won’t do any good in the classic civil service process as removal of the referral process is put in place to avoid conflicts of interests, political ties, and nepotism. Here …
Building and retaining the trust of the community is foundational to successful law enforcement and policing. Building a community’s trust in the police department is demanding. For that, the International Association of Chiefs of Police surveyed the community trust continuum, focusing on the Internal Affairs department’s monumental role in building community trust. This state-level initiative was supported …
All civil servants are tasked with administering some aspect of the government’s responsibilities, which largely encompasses policies and laws. The most obvious civil servant, given that definition, is a law enforcement officer. They’re responsible for administering and upholding the law in the country and each state’s respective legal code. However, the civil service comprises a …
During this pandemic, it is the duty of law officers to enforce government issued restrictions. The situation has been divisive, with several officers refusing to enforce the mask-wearing restrictions and a section of the public protesting against said restrictions and policies based on infringement of rights. Hostilities have taken place, which has led to police …
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