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The city of Long Beach’s top management wants to speed up their lengthy hiring process by changing how it hires classified workers, who make up the bulk of its full-time workforce.
Right now, Long Beach’s Civil Service Department recruits classified workers by testing and ranking them, then placing them on a hiring eligibility list. Non-classified workers — who are typically at-will employees such as managers, employees of elected officials, or part-time seasonal workers — are recruited by individual city departments and hired through the city’s Human Resources Department…