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Benchmark Job - A standard job used to make pay comparisons, either within the organization or to
comparable jobs outside the organization, to develop or validate a job-worth hierarchy. Pay data for
these jobs are readily available in purchased surveys.

BFOQ - Bona-Fide Occupational Qualifications - legally defensible minimum qualifications to
perform the job.

Broad Banding - A pay strategy that consolidates a large number of relatively narrow pay grades into
much fewer broad bands with relatively wide salary ranges, typically in the neighborhood of 100
percent or more.

Callback - An off-duty employee called back to work due to emergency or other unforeseen
circumstances.

Career Band - A sub-set of jobs commonly found in the market with a recognized discipline specialty
and grouped within the larger context of a Career Family.

Career Development - An on-going and formalized effort that focuses on developing enriched and
training of capable workers.

Career Family - A broad meaningful grouping of jobs commonly clustered within a career emphasis
content of defined work within a job is key criteria in determining relationship to this familial structure.

Career Ladder Positions - Positions that are filled competitively at grades below the journeyman
level, and based on job performance and experience, incumbents are allowed to move up to
journeyman level without competition

Career Path - A series of defined levels where the nature of work is similar and the levels represent
the organization's typical requirements for career growth. Parallel ladders and overlapping ladders are
often created to allow transition from one field to another (e.g., from engineering to management).

Certification - Eligible applicants submitted to a hiring Department by the Human Resources
Department from an employment, re-employment, or promotional referral list.

Class or Class of Positions - A group of positions in the classified service established under these
Policies and Procedures which are sufficiently similar in duties, responsibilities and authority to be
given the same job title, the same minimum qualifications, the same qualifying examination, and the
same salary range.

Class Family - The grouping of classes according to the general functional nature or character of
duties performed.

Class Group - A major subdivision of the classified service embracing related occupational duties.

Class Series - A subdivision of the classified service consisting of two or more classes of positions,
similar as to line of work, but differing in responsibility or difficulty, which constitute steps in a normal
line of promotion.

Classified Service- The classified service consists of all positions included in the classification and
pay plan with the exception of those positions specifically excluded by the Augusta, Georgia
Commission.

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