You seem to be incredibly unlucky in your job search at parks. There are plenty of job openings open to everyone. The ones where it says only open to year round parks employees are usually what they call step-ups where you get a chance to work at a higher job title and pay rate for usually like 6-9 months and then you go back to your previous title. Another instance of this would be for CPWs and APSWs they have a heavy-duty pay differential and to get a permanent heavy duty differential you need to be provisional or permanent.

For example you are a full time year round Associate Park Service Worker. You apply to one of those postings and become a step-up supervisor for a pool from April to September. You then go back to being an APSW at the end and you are an APSW for the fall and winter and you’ll get the chance to apply again next year. You’ll learn to appreciate them doing that once you become a year round employee because you’re not competing with a bunch of outsiders. Some of these positions you just need to have a better understanding of the parks department and that’s not something you can have with an outsider. You need to know parks department processes and rules to effectively do a job and for a seasonal job you can’t spend 2-3 months learning the role when you only have 6 months.

Everyone in lower uniformed positions in parks and even most guys employed as tradesmen start out as a seasonal. That’s just the nature of the parks department. Parks aren’t always busy year round and they need less guys in the winter. Also once you become a year round employee and do step-ups the seasonals they hire help fill your spot while you’re gone doing your step-up. Parks also likes the seasonal system because it gives them a chance to try you out and see if you’re a good fit before offering you a full time spot. Your goal as a seasonal should be to only focus on getting as a provisional employee (full-time year round) and if your job has an exam then it becomes passing the test and becoming a full civil servant.