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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3949122, member: 730"] Not a sham. A charade. I'm not sure if UConn falls under the rules of the Dept of Admin. Services or if they have their own rules but there would be little variation. The application process isn't violated but no manager wants to be constricted in their hiring and over the years many ways around those rules have been developed. The head of state personnel once testified in a sworn hearing that he could take a person off the street and give them a 30 year career with several promotions without them having ever having taken an exam or even been a permanent employee*. * A permanent employee is one who has met the minimum qualifications and passed an exam and given a permanent position, as opposed to a temporary employee or a provisional employee** ** A provisional employee is hired when there is an immediate need to hire and there is no current hiring list. They can stay in the position until the job is posted and then must pass the exam to stay. But, if they choose, the state can keeping reclassifying an employee from temp to provisional and back to temp. indefinitely. Some patronage hires are handled this way. [/QUOTE]