Welcome to the Online Employment Center for the County of Santa Cruz. Please feel free to call us at (831) 454-2600 if you have any questions.

Mission Statement 
In collaboration with our customers, we will recruit, develop, support, and retain an ethical, professional and diverse workforce dedicated to serving the community.

Please browse through our employment opportunities and feel free to submit an online application or a job interest form for positions you may be interested in applying for in the future.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT APPLYING ONLINE: Please make sure you register for your own user account to establish a unique User ID and Password. Please DO NOT allow other applicants to use your User ID and Password. Use of another person's User ID and Password will result in inaccurate records.

ATTENTION ALL ONLINE APPLICANTS: Please add @co.santa-cruz.ca.us as an accepted address to any email blocking or spam filtering program you may use. Notices will be delivered via email. Even if you do not receive any email notices, you are responsible for logging in to this system and reviewing all notices that have been sent to you. These notices are available by clicking on the 'Complete/Review Ap' button on this page.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING 'PROMOTIONAL ONLY' RECRUITMENTS: Promotional only recruitments are open to current county employees and former employees that have been placed on the re-employment list within the past two years. If you are not a current county employee or on a current re-employment list you will not be eligible to proceed in promotional only recruitments.

Special note for applicants currently on the RE-EMPLOYMENT LIST: If you are applying for a promotional only recruitment please check off the 'YES' radio button on the online application when asked if you are a permanent or probationary employee.