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STATE OF LOUISIANA

DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA

 

March 15, 2006

 

General Circular No. 001650

 

To:                   Heads of State Agencies and Human Resource Directors

 

Subject:            Upgrade of DSCS Job Search

 

Issue Date:       March 15, 2006

 

The Department of State Civil Service is pleased to announce their Internet recruiting service, JOB SEARCH, is being upgraded to better serve job seekers and the HR community.

 

The JOB SEARCH upgrade will include changes in the language on the vacancy postings and vacancy data entry.  Agency users will now have the option to view only their own postings and own contact instructions when posting a vacancy.

 

Upon implementation of this upgrade, agency users will have to recreate their contact instructions in the new system.  An easy way to accomplish this is to save the present contact instructions in Word documents, make necessary changes and then paste into new instructions in the new system. All present contact instructions should be saved before April 1, 2006. 

 

The JOB SEARCH subscription service will remain the same in the new system.  However, present subscribers will have to re-subscribe to the new system, once the upgrade has taken place.  All present subscribers will receive an e-mail prior to the upgrade notifying them that they will need to re-subscribe and how to accomplish this task.

 

The upgraded JOB SEARCH system will be available for use in the early spring of 2006.  In order to transfer postings from the old to the new system, agencies will not be able to post new vacancies for 5 days prior to the upgrade.  Active postings on the old system before the upgrade will remain active on the old system, until transferred to the new system.  They will then be available for viewing when the upgrade is completed.  The open and closing dates for all postings will remain the same.  Agencies will not be required to recreate these open vacancies in the new system.  Agencies and Job Subscribers will be notified of the actual upgrade dates by e-mail.

 

Agencies will be able to begin posting again, in the new system, after the upgrade is completed.  Jobseekers will have access to all open postings throughout our upgrade, by having access to the old system until the upgrade is complete and then access to all open postings in the new system.

 

We foresee that this upgrade will better meet the needs of job seekers as well as HR personnel.  If you have any questions, please contact Aeli Poydras in the Staffing Division at 225-342-8536.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

s/Anne Soileau

Director