California Code of Regulations
Title 2 - Administration
Division 5 - State and Federal Grant-in-Aid Program Merit Systems
Chapter 2 - Department Administered Interagency Merit System for Program Employees
Section 17033 - Selection Processes for Applicants to Program Positions

(a) The selection process shall fairly test and determine the relative qualifications, fitness and ability of applicants to perform the duties of the Program position to which they seek appointment. Applicants shall be selected based on job-related criteria developed prior to reviewing or examining any individual application. The selection process may be conducted through interviews, written examinations, performance based examinations, assessments of education and experience of the applicants, or any combination of processes that are reasonably designed to ascertain the applicant's ability to perform the duties of the Program position.

(b) Eligibility to participate in the selection process may be limited to current employees of the Local Agency or of the Program if the Local Agency's Personnel System allows for such limitations on the candidate group in positions at a similar level to the vacant Program position.