Login with your county login and password. Website for online application/self service is: https://ess.countyofdane.com 1
Step 2. You must open a posting below and click to continue the application process in order to apply. Completing your candidate profile is not applying for a specific open position. Step 1. Complete your candidate profile tabs. See next page for more instructions. This is the main screen once you log into the system. Step 1: Complete all the tabs in your candidate profile. See next pages for more instructions. Step 2: Click on a specific open posting to apply for the position. You will need to read all the way to the bottom of the posting and click to continue the application process at the bottom of the posting to apply. 2
Step 1: Complete each tab of your candidate profile. This is your application for open positions. This information must be completed in order for Employee Relations to assess if you meet the minimum qualifications for the posting you apply for. Additional Documents: You can upload your resume and a cover letter here. This is where any achievement history questionnaires or qualifications statements are to be uploaded. Those are also required in order to be screened for an open position. 3
Use back or home to return to your main screen. To Save Please read this page before starting process. This is the first tab of your candidate profile. It lists instructions and should be thoroughly read before proceeding. 4
Save button: use this after entering each institution. Click green + to add in each institution. Education tab of the Candidate Profile: 1. Please read the instructions. 2. Please list all the educational institutions you have attended. Fill in all details. The information you provide will be used to screen your application for the minimum qualifications of the posting. 3. You must save each before entering in another. 5
Save button: use this after entering each institution. Click green + to add in each employer. Work History tab of the Candidate Profile: 1. Please read the instructions. 2. Please list all of your work history. Fill in all details. The information you provide will be used to screen your application for the minimum qualifications of the posting. 3. You must save each before entering in another. 6
Save Button: Click green + to upload documents. Once uploaded, documents will appear here. Additional Documents tab of the Candidate Profile: 1. Please read the instructions. 2. You can upload your resume and cover letter here. 3. Achievement History questionnaires or qualifications statements will be uploaded here. These must be uploaded in order to be considered for the open position. These documents will be found at jobs.countyofdane.com under the position title you want to apply for. If you are viewing internal only postings and are accessing through a home computer, you will need to go to https://jobs.countyofdane.com/?internal=true to view the exam. (See next page) 7
Must be completed and uploaded under your additional documents tab in your candidate profile on ess.countyofdane.com Jobs.countyofdane.com or if using home computer and it is an internal only posting go to https://jobs.countyofdane.com/?internal=true Additional required documents must be completed and uploaded under your additional documents tab on your candidate profile. 8
You must click this to apply for an open position. If you do not click on this, your name will not come through to Employee Relations as an applicant and will result in you not being considered for the position. Open postings: Example above when you click on an open posting from your main screen. This page describes the position, wage and how to apply. 9
You must click on click to continue the application process in order to apply for a posting. If you only upload the AHQ or qualifications statement in your additional documents and do not do this step, you will not be a candidate for the open position. 10
Applications Tab This tab will show you all the postings you have applied for. If you do not see the position listed here, that means you did not apply for it. You must go back in the open postings tab, click on the open posting you are interested in, and click to continue the application process to apply for it. 11