(B) Any examination administered under this section shall be | 13 |
public and be open to all citizens of the United States and those | 14 |
persons who have legally declared their intentions of becoming | 15 |
United States citizens, within certain limitations to be | 16 |
determined by the director of administrative services as to | 17 |
citizenship,
age, experience, education, health,
habit,
and moral | 18 |
character. Any person who has completed service in the uniformed | 19 |
services,and who has been honorably discharged from the uniformed | 20 |
services or
transferred
to the reserve with evidence of | 21 |
satisfactory service,
and who is a
resident of this state and any | 22 |
member of the national guard or a reserve component of the armed | 23 |
forces of the United States who has completed more than one | 24 |
hundred eighty days of active duty service pursuant to an | 25 |
executive order of the president of the United States or an act of | 26 |
the congress of the United States may file with the director a | 27 |
certificate of service or honorable discharge,
and, upon this | 28 |
filing, the
person shall
receive additional credit of twenty per | 29 |
cent of the person's
total grade given in the regular examination | 30 |
in which the person receives a
passing grade. | 31 |
(C) An examination
may include an evaluation of such
factors | 36 |
as education, training,
capacity, knowledge, manual
dexterity, and | 37 |
physical or
psychological fitness. An examination
shall consist of | 38 |
one or more
tests in any combination. Tests may
be written, oral, | 39 |
physical,
demonstration of skill, or an
evaluation of training and | 40 |
experiences and shall be designed to
fairly test the relative | 41 |
capacity of the persons examined to
discharge the particular | 42 |
duties of the position for which
appointment is sought. Tests may | 43 |
include structured interviews, assessment centers, work | 44 |
simulations, examinations of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and | 45 |
any other acceptable testing methods. If
minimum or maximum | 46 |
requirements are
established for any
examination, they shall be | 47 |
specified in the
examination
announcement. | 48 |
(D) The director of administrative services shall have | 49 |
control of
all
examinations, except
as otherwise provided in | 50 |
sections 124.01
to 124.64 of the Revised
Code. No questions in any | 51 |
examination
shall relate to political
or religious opinions or | 52 |
affiliations.
No credit for seniority,
efficiency, or any other | 53 |
reason shall be
added to an applicant's
examination grade unless | 54 |
the applicant
achieves at least the
minimum passing grade on the | 55 |
examination
without counting
that extra credit. | 56 |
(E) Except as otherwise provided in sections 124.01 to 124.64 | 57 |
of
the Revised Code, the director of administrative services shall | 58 |
give reasonable notice
of the time, place, and general scope of | 59 |
every competitive examination for appointment to a position in
the | 60 |
civil service. The director shall send
written, printed, or | 61 |
electronic notices
of
every examination to be conducted in
the | 62 |
state classified service to each agency of the type
the
director | 63 |
of job and family services specifies and, in the case of
a county | 64 |
in which no such agency is located, to the clerk of the
court of | 65 |
common pleas
of
that county and to the clerk of each city
located | 66 |
within
that county. Those notices shall be
posted in conspicuous | 67 |
public places in the designated agencies
or
the courthouse, and | 68 |
city hall of the
cities, of the counties in
which no designated | 69 |
agency is located for at least two weeks preceding any examination | 70 |
involved, and in
a conspicuous place in the office of
the director | 71 |
of
administrative services for at least two weeks preceding
any | 72 |
examination involved. In case of examinations limited by the | 73 |
director
to a district, county, city, or
department,
the director
| 74 |
shall provide
by rule for adequate publicity
of an examination in | 75 |
the
district, county, city, or department within which
competition | 76 |
is
permitted. | 77 |