§ 45284 Promotional List Certification Priority

• •If there are two tests for the same job (one for new people and one for current workers trying to move up), the boss can pick someone from the new people list first.
• •They can do this if the new person's test score (before any extra points) is higher than the best score from the current workers' list (after adding their extra points for working there longer).
• •This rule helps fill jobs faster if the new person did really well on the test.

Imagine two people want the same job at a school. One is a new teacher who just took the test, and the other is a teacher’s aide who’s been there a while and also took the test.

If the new teacher scored 90 on the test (before any extra points) and the aide scored 85 (plus 5 extra points for working there longer, making it 90), the boss can still pick the new teacher first because their original score was higher.