FAQ Civilian

Most vacancies will be listed on our application website. For our Deputy and Communication Technician (911-Dispatcher) positions, they will not be listed due to the pre-employment examination required first. View more information on our Deputy hiring process. View our Communication Technician (911-Dispathcer) hiring process. View our civilian careers information.

To ensure impartiality, Resumes will only be accepted with our online applications. We do not review to or respond to unsolicited resume submission through email.

View our minimum qualification for civilian careers.

For additional requirements, please review all of our civilian careers, visit our civilian careers page for our list of positions.

1. Visit our application website.
2. In the top right-hand corner, you will see "Sign In", either log in with your username and password or create your login and password.
3. Please fill out all sections of the application in its entirety.
4. Please Note: For information on applying for Patrol Communication Technician (911-Dispatcher), visit Minimum Qualifications: Communication Technician (911-Dispatcher).

If you are having trouble logging in or are having other issues with their website, please contact 855-524-5627.

• Keep your contact information current with us! Changes in address, email address, or phone number must be provided to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office. Visit our applicant website, and log into your account.
• From there you can go to your account settings, change your contact information, and save your changes.
• Important: We contact all applicants via email throughout the hiring process. If information is not current, it may result in you missing important updates regarding your application.

On our application website, governmentjobs.com, you will need to log in under your account, once you have logged into your account, in the top right-hand corner of the page, should be your name or account name. Click on it and a drop-down box will appear. Click on application. This will take you to another page that will show all of your job applications, if it says, "Application Received", then we have received your application.

We have different phases in our hiring process in our hiring process depending on which position you are looking to apply for.

• Civilian process
• Deputy process
• Communication Technician (911-Dispatcher) process

For some of our civilian careers, a college education is required. Review any additional minimum qualifications in the position you are looking to apply or go to the civilian career page to find the position information and any additional requirements.

You must be 18 years old at the time of employment.

Lateral transfers are not accepted.

There is no residency requirement due to a decision by the Ohio Supreme Court.

Yes. However, you must do this while working around your school schedule.

There are many growth and career advancement opportunities in our Corrections Division along with our Administration, Employment and Management Services, Investigations, Patrol, Recruitment, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Security Operations, and Support Services Divisions.

We would be happy to consider you application again; if you are applying for the same position, we only accept application once every six (6) months. If it's for a different position, submit a completed application for each open position you are interested in via our application website.

Please Note: Our Deputy and Communication Technician (911-Dispatcher) positions require a pre-employment examination first. View our deputy pre-employment testing process. View our Communication Technician (911-Dispatcher) pre-employment testing process.

To stay updated you will need to go to our application website. Once you have logged in, the top left-hand corner of the page, under "Menu", select "Class Specifications". Once you have located the job(s) that you have interested in, click on the job - a screen will appear with the job description information on it. If there is a green "Subscribe" button in the top right-hand corner, you are able to request a job interest card. The job interest card will trigger an email to you once the job has become available for applications.

Please Note: For some of our positions, the job interest card is unavailable, and you will not see the green "Subscribe" button.

If you are interested in our Deputy or Patrol Communication Technician (911-Dispatcher) positions, you will need to visit the minimum qualifications for details due to pre-employment examination requirements.

Yes! Military personnel and veterans who have, or are anticipated to have, an honorable discharge are eligible and encouraged to apply. General discharge and uncharacterized discharges are also accepted but reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Active military status personnel can apply but must be available when employment is scheduled to begin.

Applicants who are discharged must submit their DD-214 (Member 4 copy) for discharge status verification.