PERSONNEL CLERK

Job Title

Nassau County School Districts & Board Of Cooperative Educational Services

Salary: Varies by Jurisdiction: Hempstead UFSD: $39,149 - $71,612

Duties

Performs varied clerical tasks in processing and maintaining personnel forms and records; performs related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Must be met on or before the closing date:

Training and Experience: Graduation from high school and two years of satisfactory office clerical experience, including one year maintaining personnel forms and records. Experience, as outlined above, in excess of the two-year requirement, may be substituted for high school education on a year-for-year basis, up to a maximum of two years. Note: In order to be accepted, your experience maintaining human resource forms and records must have been a significant part of your duties - for a period of at least one year. Merely handling such forms on an occasional basis is not considered as qualifying.

Note: According to Civil Service Law, section 54 which became effective September 4, 2024, applicants who are within 12 months of meeting the minimum age or attaining the minimum educational requirements following the date of examination, may take the civil service exam, but will be restricted from certification until such a time that the minimum age or educational requirements are met.

Note: SEE ITEMS NOS. 1 AND 2 OF GENERAL INFORMATION.

Supplemental Information/Subject of Examination/General Information

How to Apply: Online applications are available at The advantages of filing electronically include the storage of submitted applications in your personal user account and application processing fee payment by credit/debit card.

Additionally, our Examination Announcements webpage includes a link entitled Job Descriptions and Job Interest Cards, which offers the opportunity to view class specifications and fill out a form so that you may receive an email notification when an open competitive examination for a particular title is announced in the future.

Please note: Computers are available to file electronic applications in our office at 40 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Hempstead, NY from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday thru Friday. In accordance with our goal of making the Nassau County Civil Service Commission a paperless agency, no hard copy application is available.

Residency: SEE ITEM NO. 5 OF GENERAL INFORMATION.

Note: Residents of Farmingdale UFSD No. 22 who live in Suffolk County may participate in this examination but will be eligible for appointment only in that school district.

Fee: Non-refundable processing fee must be submitted for each separately numbered examination for which you apply. This fee must be paid by credit or debit card.

Carefully review the minimum qualifications on this announcement to ensure that you meet them, as this is a non-refundable processing fee. Applications submitted without proper payment will be rejected without review.

Application Fee Waiver: A waiver of application fee will be allowed if you are unemployed and primarily responsible for the support of a household. In addition, a waiver of application fee will be allowed if you are determined eligible for Medicaid, or receiving Supplemental Security Income payments, or Public Assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families/Family Assistance or Safety Net Assistance) or are certified Job Training Partnership Act/Workforce Investment Act eligible through a State or local social service agency. Active-duty military service members and military veterans shall be exempt from the payment of application fees. All claims for application fee waiver are subject to verification. If you can verify eligibility for application fee waiver, when prompted to submit the application processing fee, choose the Fee Waiver option. Follow the directions regarding downloading and submitting the required fee waiver form.

Special Test Accommodations: If you have either a temporary or permanent disability and are in need of reasonable test accommodations, and/or are in need of an alternate examination date due to a conflict with either a Religious Observance or Military Service Commitment, please answer "yes" to the appropriate question(s) in the application.

Note: SEE ITEM NO. 6 OF GENERAL INFORMATION REGARDING ADDITIONAL CREDITS FOR VETERANS, AND FOR CHILDREN/SIBLINGS OF FIREFIGHTERS/POLICE OFFICERS WHO QUALIFY UNDER SECTIONS 85A/85B OF CIVIL SERVICE LAW. IF YOU BELIEVE YOU QUALIFY FOR SUCH CREDITS, ANSWER "YES" TO THE APPLICABLE QUESTION(S) IN THE APPLICATION.

Vacancies: SEE ITEM NO. 4 OF GENERAL INFORMATION FOR INFORMATION REGARDING VACANCIES AND BACKGROUND CHECK REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT TO CERTAIN POSITIONS.

Note: The Nassau County Civil Service Commission has commenced the implementation of electronic canvassing. Canvass letters will be sent to the email address provided on examination applications. To help prevent emails going to spam please save View email address on click.appcast.io to your contacts. However, you should check your inbox and junk/spam folder frequently. The Commission does not accept responsibility for non-delivery or postal delivery delays of US Mail or emails. Some agencies will still be canvassing by US Mail until the transition period has been completed. It is the responsibility of the candidate to notify this Commission, in writing of any change of name, mailing/legal/email address. You must respond to all letters received – MORE THAN TWO NO-RESPONSES TO CANVASS LETTERS WILL RESULT IN THE REMOVAL OF A CANDIDATE FROM THE ELIGIBLE LIST.

A promotion examination for this title will be held on the same date. In accordance with established merit system principles, the eligible list established, as a result of the promotion examination must be used first. Since a limited number of vacancies are anticipated, appointments from the eligible list established as a result of this open competitive examination may be limited.

Total time allowed for examinations held on this date may not exceed eight hours.

Subject of Examination: A written test designed to evaluate knowledge, skills and/or abilities in the following areas:

Name and number checking - These questions test for the ability to distinguish between sets of words, letters, and/or numbers that are almost exactly alike. Material is usually presented in two or three columns, and you will have to determine how the entry in the first column compares with the entry in the second column and possibly the third. You will be instructed to mark your answers according to a designated code provided in the directions.

Operations with Letters and Numbers - These questions test for skills and abilities in operations involving alphabetizing, comparing, checking and counting. The questions require you to follow the specific directions given for each question which may involve alphabetizing, comparing, checking and counting given groups of letters and/or numbers. Customer service - These questions test for knowledge of techniques used to interact with other people, to gather and present information, and to provide assistance, advice and effective customer service in a courteous and professional manner. Questions will cover such topics as understanding and responding to people with diverse needs, perspectives, personalities, and levels of familiarity with agency operations, as well as acting in a way that both serves the public and reflects well on your agency. Working with office records - These questions test your ability to work with office records. The test consists of two or more sets of questions, each set concerning a different problem. Typical record keeping problems might involve the organization or collation of numerical data from several sources; maintaining a record system using running balances; or completion of a table summarizing data using totals, subtotals, averages and percents.

Test guide: The New York State Department of Civil Service has not prepared a test guide for this examination. However, candidates may find information in the publication 'General Guide to Written Tests' helpful in preparing for this test. This publication is available online at:

Note: The use of a quiet, hand-held solar or battery powered calculator is recommended for this examination. Devices with typewriter keyboards such as computers, spell-checkers, personal digital assistants, address books, language translators, dictionaries, and any similar devices are prohibited.

Note: If you have not received notice within three days of the examination date of November 7, 2026, call the Commission (572-0862).

It is the responsibility of the candidate to notify this Commission, in writing, of any change of name, mailing/legal/email address, or phone number: indicate examination number and title, and your social security number.

Disabled Veterans: Visit our homepage at to view information (including a downloadable credit request form) on a recent amendment to the New York Constitution regarding the award and use of additional credits for certain disabled veterans on civil service examinations.

General Information

1. Applying: Inquiries should be directed to the Executive Director, Nassau County Civil Service Commission. The Commission does not accept