my name is john kraus. the personal selection can began once the requisition process has been proved and in a moment i will talk about some of the phases or steps involved in personnel selection. before i do that, this was presented as arbitrary just as ddi works on a body of codes. for example, we must be guided by it guidelines and regulations as is shown by the city charter and the service commission. we have state regulations that we must follow and federal regulations that we must follow. for example, the civil service commission rules specified types of eligible lists, types of announcements, types of certification rules and all of the procedures that are related to those particular areas. the california regulations specifically local government standards covered the same process as the civil service rules and they put some limitations of what they can do. we must issue announcements for at least five days. we cannot certify more than 10,000 -- 10 individuals on a referral. if we go beyond that, they