Personnel Cabinet Highlights

The Personnel Cabinet launched a new on-line recruitment system, Career Opportunities (COS), on November 26, 2007. COS benefits applicants, Commonwealth agencies, and the Personnel Cabinet in the following ways:

COS allows Applicants to:

• Create, View and Update their employment application and personal information on-line
• Apply for vacant positions via the Internet 24/7 eliminating the need to travel to Frankfort
• Electronically search for job vacancies and be notified by email of vacancies for which they may want to apply

COS allows Agencies to:

• Develop job postings which target specific knowledge, skills, and abilities they are looking for in an applicant
• Receive registers consisting of qualified, interested applicants
• View applicant’s information on-line
• Conduct electronic searches of applicant information for desired/required skills, education, and experience
• Have on-line approval functionality for the hiring process

COS allows the Personnel Cabinet to:

• Work closely with the hiring agencies to develop job postings which target specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that agencies are looking for in a candidate
• Continue to qualify candidates for job classifications
• Have the ability to conduct an electronic search of candidate information based on desired/required skills, education, and experience to produce a better register of candidates for the requesting agency
• Have expanded reporting ability

See list of Frequently Asked Questions.