California Code of Regulations
Title 2 - Administration
Division 1 - Administrative Personnel
Chapter 1 - State Personnel Board
Subchapter 2 - Career Executive Assignment Rules
Article 5 - Examinations
Section 548.40 - Competitive Examinations
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Examinations for appointment to Career Executive Assignment positions shall be competitive and of such a character as fairly to test and determine the qualifications of candidates actually to perform the duties of the position to be filled. Examinations may include, but need not be limited to, an assessment of the candidates' character, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and ability. Examinations may be assembled or unassembled, written or oral, or in the form of a demonstration of skill, or any combination of these.
(b) Examinations may include a review of applications, use of supplemental applications, appraisals of performance and executive potential, management exercises, or structured interviews.
(c) The appointing power shall promulgate the job-related evaluation criteria that will be used to assess the qualifications of each candidate for the position. The appointing power shall assess each candidate's qualifications for the position based upon the evaluation criteria and shall compare and rank each candidate against all other candidates based upon this assessment. Successful candidates shall be divided into ranks based upon their scores. Limited scoring examinations may be used in the discretion of the Department or designated appointing power. Each candidate shall be notified in writing of his or her final score and ranking.
1.
Amendment filed 12-21-73; designated effective 4-1-74 (Register 73, No.
51).
2. Amendment filed 8-14-79; effective thirtieth day thereafter
(Register 79, No. 33).
3. Change without regulatory effect amending
NOTE filed 9-16-92 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 92, No. 39).
4. Amendment of section and NOTE
filed 10-23-2000; operative 10-23-2000; amended and refiled 12-6-2000.
Submitted to OAL for printing only pursuant to Government Code sections
18211 and
18213(a)
(Register 2000, No. 49).
5. Amendment filed 4-27-2017; operative
7-1-2017. Submitted to OAL for filing and printing only pursuant to Government
Code section
18211
(Register 2017, No. 17).
Note: Authority cited: Section 18701, Government Code. Reference: Sections 18546, 19889, 19889.2 and 19889.3, Government Code; and Alexander v. State Personnel Board (2000) 80 Cal.App.4th 526.
