DWP employment waiting list

DanH84_2

Hey, I hadn't phoned up to ask what position I was in on the merit list but today, 4 weeks exactly since I received my success letter I got a phone call from my old employer asking me for permission to give a reference. annoyingly they wouldn't give it over the phone without asking me first so now I'll have to wait over the bank holiday until the dwp call them again, but i hear that asking for references is one of the last things the dwp does? so hopefully i could expect to hear back within a week or so?

Murphy_Suicide

Position: South East Bucks EO

Selection Test: 18/04/09
Interview: 19/04/09
Successful Letter (No Waiting List): 11/05/09
Personal References Taken: 14/05/09

Still waiting.........

shahzadi01

I got a phone call today with a start date - 1st June!! :T I'm going to be based in THREE different Resource and Advice Centres, my travel expenses will be paid for so that's OK. I will be offering employment advice to white collar workers wanting to get back in to work. It's a 18 month contract as advertised.

Brief timeline of my experience:

Interview and assessment: 1st April
Success letter: 10th April
CRB returned to me: 8th May I think

Is there anyone else out there who are going to be based in resource centres as opposed to jobcentre? Please share your experience if so! I'm really happy and excited!! I'm training for 2 weeks.

shahzadi01

Oh the position is EO by the way.

lili2008

I admit to being thoroughly confused so apologies if this question has been answered before. But...is that how you know your CRB has been done? If a copy is sent to you?

For the EO post I am now apparently undergoing checks for, I didn't fill out a CRB on the day and wasn't sent one through the post. I rang and asked that a copy I did fill in (for an AO interview) be used. This was apparently OK, so I emailed the cross reference numbers to my HR officer. Heard nowt since.

lili2008

shahzadi01 wrote: »

Oh the position is EO by the way.

Well done. Can I rub your sleeve for luck? I am beginning to think I will never get *the phone call*. It's like a desert mirage. Just as I seem to get near to it, it disappears.

sportfan

shahzadi01 wrote: »

I got a phone call today with a start date - 1st June!! :T I'm going to be based in THREE different Resource and Advice Centres, my travel expenses will be paid for so that's OK. I will be offering employment advice to white collar workers wanting to get back in to work. It's a 18 month contract as advertised.

Brief timeline of my experience:

Interview and assessment: 1st April
Success letter: 10th April
CRB returned to me: 8th May I think

Is there anyone else out there who are going to be based in resource centres as opposed to jobcentre? Please share your experience if so! I'm really happy and excited!! I'm training for 2 weeks.

Shahzadi!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS! WOW! I THINK IM MORE HAPPY THAN YOU! LOL WELL DONE - FINALLY YOU GOT A DATE! - I KNOW HOW DISTRESSED YOU'VE BEEN AND STUFF! WELL DONE AND HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR TIME AT DWP!!

Are you an EO/PA/AO/BDO/AA? What? lol

Congrats again!! Lets just hope it works out for everyone else (including me) and there is light at the tunnel!

suseh97

shahzadi01 wrote: »

I got a phone call today with a start date - 1st June!! :T I'm going to be based in THREE different Resource and Advice Centres, my travel expenses will be paid for so that's OK. I will be offering employment advice to white collar workers wanting to get back in to work. It's a 18 month contract as advertised.

Brief timeline of my experience:

Interview and assessment: 1st April
Success letter: 10th April
CRB returned to me: 8th May I think

Is there anyone else out there who are going to be based in resource centres as opposed to jobcentre? Please share your experience if so! I'm really happy and excited!! I'm training for 2 weeks.

Congratulations! :T

shahzadi01

sportfan wrote: »

Shahzadi!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS! WOW! I THINK IM MORE HAPPY THAN YOU! LOL WELL DONE - FINALLY YOU GOT A DATE! - I KNOW HOW DISTRESSED YOU'VE BEEN AND STUFF! WELL DONE AND HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR TIME AT DWP!!

Are you an EO/PA/AO/BDO/AA? What? lol

Congrats again!! Lets just hope it works out for everyone else (including me) and there is light at the tunnel!

Thank youuuuu!!! I'm so happy. It's an EO position. But I can't remember what the salary is for the job!! It's either 19,500 or 21,000. Anyway, they said they would outline all that in the letter they're going to send me.

Lili, it depends what address you put on your CRB form, I put a Newcastle address, so it got sent straight there and I just got a copy. If I put my address I would have had to send it to them and that would have taken longer.

Someone mentioned here earlier that they got money for clothes when they got a new job through JSA?? I wonder if I can get that??

sportfan

shahzadi01 wrote: »

Thank youuuuu!!! I'm so happy. It's an EO position. But I can't remember what the salary is for the job!! It's either 19,500 or 21,000. Anyway, they said they would outline all that in the letter they're going to send me.

Lili, it depends what address you put on your CRB form, I put a Newcastle address, so it got sent straight there and I just got a copy. If I put my address I would have had to send it to them and that would have taken longer.

Someone mentioned here earlier that they got money for clothes when they got a new job through JSA?? I wonder if I can get that??

No probs - hope you enjoy your new job!

Newly advertised jobs with DWP show higher salarys (are the goverment paying more for DWP people in current economic climate ?? -- hrmm seems so!)
(check new job vacancies on DWP website)

Money for clothes through JSA? Huh? Who said that? Ask your line manager about it and let us know here on MSE!

Good news for me = Disclosure Scotland sent off my CRB back to DWP and hopefully I should get a copy by next week from DWP! - Things are moving forward!!