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Show Merit System Is ; Inaugurated By Welfare Groups Merit system examinations prior to appointment of more than 400 workers in the state and county departments of public welfare will be given next month at centrally cen-trally located points throughout the state, it has been announced by John C. Kidneigh, merit system supervisor for the state department depart-ment of public welfare. Tat examination will be the ! first step toward placing the largest group of workers in the state of Utah ever to be on the merit system on this program I which is intended to give the jobs . to best qualified workers without ; regard to social, religious or poli-; poli-; tica! connections, Mr. Kidneigh ;said. Hugo B. Anderson, chairman of J the merit system council, explained explain-ed that ti e slate and county departments de-partments of public welfare now employ some 425 persons. "Any of these employes em-j em-j ployed prior to January 1, 1940 I who pass the examinations required re-quired for their positions", hi pointed out, "may be retained in their positions. However, it is 1 expected that some new appoint-i appoint-i ments will be made immediately upon completion and grading of the merit examinations. All future fu-ture vacancies in the department also will be filled from persons winning highest ranks on the merit registers to be made up from those who pass the examinations" exami-nations" Workers in 33 classifications , and nine groups will be employed on a basis of the merit examina-tir examina-tir ns. These include stenographers, typists, key punch operators. ; clerks of various rank, statisticians, statisti-cians, accountants, case workers for various special and general fields. child welfare workers, consultants, con-sultants, field representatives, ron'? economists, county directors, administrative assistants and exe- ' cutive positions. Any persons interested in taking tak-ing the examinations should write to the merit system supervisor. 510 Beason building. Salt Lake City, requesting an announcement of examinations and an application applica-tion form. When the application form is filled in, returned and accepted, the applicant will be notified of examination dates. If the arpli-cation arpli-cation is rejected, the individual will be notified at once with reasons. rea-sons. Examinations are to be both written or oral, or both, in some cases, and include a rating of training and experience, or in some others, a performance test. No prescribed study material is provided by the council. The last date upon which applications appli-cations will be received for next month's examinations will be December De-cember 10. Examinations will be graded on an impartial basis, with the applicant's appli-cant's name not appearing upon examination papers. A code number num-ber only will be used for identification. identifi-cation. Other members of the merit system council, of which Mr. Anderson is chairman, are Elizabeth Eliza-beth Fitzgerald, assistant principal princi-pal of the West high school, and F. Y. Fox, president of the L. D. S. Business college. Appointment of the merit system sys-tem council and placing the public welfare department upon the merit system are required for sharing in federal funds appro-, priated to this work undiar the social security program. |