Your board just interviewed nineteen candidates for sergeant. The scores are on paper. The rationale is in someone's handwriting. The eligible list has to be posted this week — and the appeal window opens the day after.
A promotional process is only as defensible as its paperwork
You post the promotional announcement. Officers test. You seat an oral board of supervisors and outside raters. And then the record-keeping starts working against you.
Board members score on paper forms. Rationale is optional in practice, so half the sheets come back with a number and nothing else. HR keys the scores into a spreadsheet by hand, applies the written exam weighting by hand, adds veteran's preference points by hand, and breaks ties by hand. Every one of those steps is a place an arithmetic error can enter the eligible list.
Then a candidate who ranked seventh files a civil service appeal.Now you need to produce, criterion by criterion, why each board member scored them the way they did — and the answer is a stack of photocopies.
1 appeal
It only takes one. Whether you are promoting to corporal at a 90-bed county jail or running a centrally administered sergeant's process for a state DOC, the exposure is identical: a ranked eligible list, a statutory appeal window, and a documentation trail that either holds up or doesn't.
Most facilities can't fix that today. Not because their process is unfair — but because nothing they have records it properly.
One system for the whole promotional process
HR directors, board members, and department admins run every candidate through one place — from the scheduled interview through the posted eligible list, with a record that stands up when it is questioned.
What your board actually works in
For every candidate
Walk through each dimension, document the required rationale, and watch the panel score update live — the same rubric, applied the same way, every board.
Your dimensions, your weights
Start from a preset or define your own — communication skills, supervisory judgment, institutional knowledge, leadership and professionalism — and every board member scores against the same fields.
Individual board member logins
Add board members, HR directors, and department admins by email — each gets a personal link and scores independently, with the right role for each.
Nothing gets lost
Every score, edit, and decision is logged with who, what, and when — the scoring record you can post with the eligible list, ready before the appeal window opens.
Built for corrections promotional boards
County jails, state correctional facilities, and regional systems running civil service promotional processes. If compiling your last eligible list meant a weekend with a calculator and a stack of scoring sheets, CorrectionsPromotion was built for you.
Not an HRIS module. Not a survey tool. Not an exam vendor.
CorrectionsPromotion is not a promotions tab bolted onto an HR system. It is not a form builder collecting board scores in a survey. And it is not a five-figure testing consultant who runs your process for you and leaves with the institutional knowledge.
It is a purpose-built oral board scoring platform for corrections promotional processes — with required written rationale, automatic written-exam weighting, veteran's preference and tiebreaks applied by rule, and an export that answers an appeal in one click. No setup, no IT department, no training required.
Your first promotional process is free
Run a real process end to end — real candidates, real board, real eligible list — before you pay anything. No card, no procurement cycle, no pilot agreement.
$399per promotional process
For facilities that promote once or twice a year. Pay for the process you're running, nothing in between.
$999per year, unlimited processes
For departments and state systems running promotions for multiple ranks or multiple institutions across the year.
Questions about CorrectionsPromotion, your promotional process, or how the platform fits your facility's civil service rules? Email us directly — tell us the rank you're testing for and how your board is seated, and we'll get back to you.
Your first promotional process is free. There is nothing to sign up for before you write to us.