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Recent Civil Service
Developments
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salary and wages budgets of all de
partments, showing that the work was
accomplished with considerably fewer
employees than was anticipated. The;
Civil Service Commission is well
aware of the good work being done
by the state employees.
Advertising Examinations
The Civil Service Commission
makes every effort to advertise its ex
aminations as widely as possible. An
nouncements are sent to all depart
ments with a request that they be
posted: News releases are sent to the
newspapers and radio, stations and the
announcements are posted on the two
official bulletin boards of the Com
mission.
Turnover Study
In order to determine the reason
employees are leaving the state ser-
vice and in which classifications the
s|ate is losing employees, a sample
study was made of the resignations
for the month of June, 1951. During
that month there were 453 resigna-
• tions. The following are the reasons
given by the employees:
Other employment ...................... ...132
Insufficient Salary ........................ 9
Leaving City ........ | ....................... 97
Domestic ......................................... 62
Health ...................................
27
Illness in Family ............................ 8
School ......9............... ..................... 14
Military ....... .......... ......I................ 2
Failed to return from leave .......... 6
Housing difficulty ......................... 2
Dissatisfied ........................... '.......... 20
Personal .......................................... 13
Unknown ....,.................................. 53
Misc.
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Classifications having the largest
numbers of resignations were:
Clerk I ......
13
Clerk Stenographer I .................... 30
Clerk Stenographer II .................. 21
Clerk Typist I .................. ;.......... 49
Clerk Typist II .................
16
Domestic Worker I ....................... 19
Highway Section Man I ........ .
26
Hospital Aide I
'........................... 39
Laborer I ....................................... 42
Laborer II ....................... .........L..„ 11
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