Interview advice for the DWP needed

sportfan

NastyNas wrote: »

Look out for no capital letters in the post-code. Also brush up on your knowledge of when to use 'their, they're and there'. Look out for sentences not starting with capitals. The others are usually pretty straight forward.

Cheers for that Nas!

postcode should be all in caps right? how about commas (,) - did you get any of them in your test? hw did you get on?

NastyNas

sportfan wrote: »

Cheers for that Nas!

postcode should be all in caps right? how about commas (,) - did you get any of them in your test? hw did you get on?

Yeah postcode all in caps.

I don't think you have to worry about commas, quotation marks etc, there certainly was not any mistakes of those in mine. My tactic was to spot 11 words/letters that I was pretty certain were mistakes quite quickly, then spend rest of the time looking at what probably were mistakes. My interview went well, basically asked the 4 competency questions and probed one or two things out of me, relaxed environment and nice people to be honest.

crazyangel_2

I was actually offered a job with them last year and turned it down at the last minute.But the interview was straight forward ,although i was terrified and thought i never had a chance.When i was offered the job i was told they were looking for a certain criteria and i fitted it.

sportfan

crazyangel wrote: »

I was actually offered a job with them last year and turned it down at the last minute.But the interview was straight forward ,although i was terrified and thought i never had a chance.When i was offered the job i was told they were looking for a certain criteria and i fitted it.

What position was this? And what questions they ask you?

sportfan

NastyNas wrote: »

Yeah postcode all in caps.

I don't think you have to worry about commas, quotation marks etc, there certainly was not any mistakes of those in mine. My tactic was to spot 11 words/letters that I was pretty certain were mistakes quite quickly, then spend rest of the time looking at what probably were mistakes. My interview went well, basically asked the 4 competency questions and probed one or two things out of me, relaxed environment and nice people to be honest.

Thanks soooooo much!! You're really helpful! What 4 questions were you asked for EO position?

shahzadi01

sportfan wrote: »

Thanks soooooo much!! You're really helpful! What 4 questions were you asked for EO position?

In my experience I've found that I perform better at interviews when I don't over prepare. When I know the questions they will ask me, I've revised a sort of script so when I'm in the interview it's like it's like I'm reading lines and I get nervous when I don't remember a 'line'. With my EO interview, I was the opposite, I briefly had a look at the competencies and I was fine in the interview, just went with the flow. I'm sure you'll be fine sportfan, just relax!!

sportfan

What 4 questions were you asked shahzadi?

shahzadi01

sportfan wrote: »

What 4 questions were you asked shahzadi?

LOOK AT THE COMPETENCIES THEY HAVE GIVEN YOU!!!! All you need to do is look at them and think of a situation where you've demonstrated each competence. They basically reword the competence, e.g.:

How have you effectively engaged with customers?

etc.

P.S. Not shouting, just trying to emphasise my point!

lili2008

ALERT

If you've done the competency choice test online for an AO post and are waiting for info on literacy and numeracy testing, look at your emails now. I've just had one inviting me to a test tomorrow!

sportfan

BEWARE!

Competencies for DWP have changed after 6 April 2009

Does any one know about it? Whats changed? Why?

New Behavioural competencies can be found at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/working/applying/experience.asp#Behavioural_competencies