Waiting list? How does NY work?

[Kycop28]

I have "heard" that when you have to take a civil service test to work in NY. Do the Depts go by this "state test" and U R willing to go anywhere in the state or do you take the test and tell them what Dept you are interested in etc or am I just completly cornfused on this whole situation. I don't want to work in NY just curious of how other depts/state operate. Here in the KY, whatever Dept you want to work for, just take a written when they have an opening and usually the depts test are different, there is not a "state test".

[hxd]

Check out this document to help better understand the civil service process for police officers in New York.

http://www.cs.state.ny.us/pio/publications/police.pdf

[10-97UPD]

If you take an exam for a State agency you go on a waiting list and may get a call depending on your score. The lists are good for several yers and may expire before you get a response. If you are called you go to an agility test and if you pass then you go through the hiring process..interview, medical exam,background investigation, polygraph (if there is one) then the academy. Once you get out of they academy they pretty much tell you where you are going and then you bid your way back home.

County exams are similar. You take the test and wait. You are eligible for the Sheriffs dept and usually the agency who has jurisdiction in the town you live. I believe in some counties a candidates score is good for every agency in the county.

Major cities have their own test and follow the same guidelines as listed above.

It could be years before you get called or you may not even get a call. It all depends on your score. Its amazing how 5 points makes that big of a difference.

[Yankee_1]

in my county the civil service test is for county sheriff's dept and town police depts inside the county. the city offers a simular test but its only for the "city" dept. some times you can take one test and cross file in adjoining countys.