Office Assistant 2

Minimum Qualifications Are you interested in starting or advancing your career with New York State? Do enjoy work assignments that include typing and data entry? Office Assistant 2 Keyboarding positions provide excellent opportunities for advancement and growth. Candidates from outside or within State Service can apply.

Minimum Qualifications:
Candidates from outside State Service can be considered for hire under the Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement – Statewide (HELPS) program as an Office Assistant 2 Keyboarding if they have one year of clerical experience where most of the work time is spent performing keyboarding, data entry, or chart compilation or arrangement and must pass a keyboarding test; 30 words per minute with at least 96% accuracy.

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Candidates within State Service can be considered for a competitive class appointment if they are reachable on the current Office Assistant 2 Keyboarding eligible list.

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Candidates from within State Service can be considered transfer to a competitive class position if they have one year of permanent competitive or 55-b/55-c service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law.
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In accordance with Section 52.7 of the Civil Service Law, this notice advises all employees of the Office of Mental Health of our intention to conduct a non-competitive promotion examination for the position of Office Assistant 2 Keyboarding at Central New York Psychiatric Center, Mid-State Satellite Unit. Permanent appointment may be made by non-competitive promotion of an applicant who meets the position's minimum qualifications if all requirements of non-competitive promotion are met.

Duties Description As an Office Assistant 2 Keyboarding, you will perform a wide variety of complex clerical and administrative support activities, including:

• Typing, proofreading, reviewing, and correcting correspondence and documents

• Transcribing hand-written materials

• Gathering data for charts, graphs, and tables

• Preparing routine reports