Annual narrative, statistical, and financial report of the Civil Service Department and Civil Service Commission. Includes reports of the secretary to the Commission and the Chief Examiner; exam results; dismissals and investigations; engineers licenses issued; digests of amendments to Civil Service rules and Official Opinions; and reports of the Public Employment Office.

Applications for City positions. Include position, applicants name, address, citizenship, birthplace and date, age, marital status, sex, height and weight, work history, and references. Arranged alphabetically by year.

Notices of Appointment, Reports of Employment, Reports of Discharge, and Reports of Separation documenting personnel actions. Information generally includes name of employee, job title, date of action, wage paid for appointments, and reasons for discharges. Also includes a few transcripts and summaries of hearings over disputed discharges. Arranged by department and then chronologically.

Correspondence from the Board of Examiners relating to applications for examination, exam results, and notices of examination dates.

Standardized reports filed by boards, commissions, committees, and task forces. Includes authorizing information such as dates established, ordinance authority, and appointment authority; administrative details such as membership requirements, terms, meeting dates, officers, subcommittees, members names, and attendance records; and program information such as current activities, planning for the following year, and historical information. Reports are arranged alphabetically by entity.

Three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings relating to employment with city government, 1934-1947, including information about civil service exams, employee training, job reclassification, salary changes, and retirement.

Copies of Civil Service examinations given to establish employment registers. Arranged chronologically. Most of the series dates from 1903-1934; there are a smaller number of later exams for positions in the Personnel Department.

Published laws and rules governing the City's civil service system.

Records relating to the search, evaluation, selection, and appointment of candidates for department director positions. Includes appointments, oaths of office, resumes and references, background checks, search committee records, organization charts, public disclosure forms, and other materials related to searches.

Register of individuals eligible to work as laborers on Seattle's public works projects. Includes name, address, ward, age, type of work sought, and general examination average and rank. Also includes date certified for employment, employing department, position, wage, and other comments. This register was replaced by a card file in 1905.

Official job announcements published by the Personnel Department

Files include progress reports, affirmative action plans, goal setting and general reports, organized alphabetically by department.

Compilation of Civil Service examination statistics including dates, job title, type of exam, number of applications rejected, number of people examined, number failing to appear, and numbers of passed and failed.

Appointments, separations, general correspondence, applications, employee lists, reports, payrolls, and publications. Arranged alphabetically for each year.

Subject files for the Personnel Department's Labor Relations unit

Records from an initiative to develop City information technology positions within the personnel system.

Proceedings of board established in 1926 to examine plumbers. Includes lists of names, test scores, and individuals who passed exam.

Correspondence, reports, minutes, policies and procedures, program proposals, sub-Grant agreements and modifications, and audit material relating to City beneficiary programs of the KSMC. Records relate especially to the Seattle School District, desegregation training, the Central Area Motivation Program, and the City's Public Service Employment Program.

Opinions of Corporation Counsel requested by the Civil Service Department regarding especially policies and rules for employment in the City's civil service. Topics include (but not exclusive to) age requirements, CSC authority, examination rules, veteran preference, temporary employment, sex equity in hiring, and retirement. Arranged chronologically. Series includes an index to opinions through 1943.

Correspondence, applications, reports, policy and procedures, draft legislation, and examination results relating to the licensing and monitoring of masseurs and masseuses.

Proceedings of meetings of the Massage Operators Examination Board. Includes results of examinations, discussion and decisions on appeals, and policies regarding licensing.

Proceedings of Board established in 1931 to administer examinations to individuals seeking a meat salesman license. Includes lists of people who were examined and their scores.

Content includes images from the Training and Development Division, Service Awards for 35 years and 20 years of service as a City employee.

Records from the Personnel Director for the City of Seattle.

Guides to training offered to city employees by the Personnel Department.

Proceedings of Board established in 1951 to administer examinations for the various classes identified ad requiring refrigeration licenses for employment. Minutes include lists of people passing examinations and those who failed or did not have the requisite work experience to qualify for the exam.

A register of applicants for positions in the fire and police departments. Includes name, address, age, marital status, nativity, height, weight, and number of dependents for each applicant. Also includes information on civil service examination scores and rank, certification of employment, probationary appointments, separation from service, application and examination for promotion, and general remarks. A card file system replaced the register in 1905.

Records of the Personnel Department's Affirmative Action Task Force.

Employment data from City of Seattle departments and offices.

Employment data reports filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.