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Without trawling through all your posts red dave...whereabouts in the northwest are you? and what part of jcp? jobcentre? contact centre? What's your job title? and grade?0
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applecharlotte wrote: »Without trawling through all your posts red dave...whereabouts in the northwest are you? and what part of jcp? jobcentre? contact centre? What's your job title? and grade?
I am in Birkenhead, grade is AO job title operational delivery officer or something along those lines!0 -
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What happened to all the posts?0
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thought i would put up my timeline for others to guage!
selection tests -27 jan
interview -16 feb
informed i was succesful letter recieved 3 march
crb form sent off - 6 march
telephone call today to ask what was happening - said my references are back (although i know for a fact my personal references havent been contacted yet!) and are just waiting for crb to come - said there was about a 12 day backlog on these at present
am desperate to get back to work after 6 months on the dole0 -
Selection Tests * Interview- 14th March
CRB Frm received- 18th March
Application Succesful Letter- 20th March
Here's hoping things move quickly from here on!
They must be keen to get me in(!)Bored0 -
its all been very itsy-bitsy hasnt it!!! i cant wait to start though although it will be a very long commute for me but after 6 months on the dole i was ready to travel internationally if need be!
am so pleased have had a lot of nights out where people have asked me the dreaded 'so what do you do' question!!!!0 -
suewiththeblues wrote: »its all been very itsy-bitsy hasnt it!!! i cant wait to start though although it will be a very long commute for me but after 6 months on the dole i was ready to travel internationally if need be!
am so pleased have had a lot of nights out where people have asked me the dreaded 'so what do you do' question!!!!
Congrats!
I am not unemployed thankfully, but am being made redundanyt in the summer, so I'm just looking forward to taking my VR now and starting a new job! I can use all my redundancy to buy a new kitchen and some lovely new guitars!Bored0 -
I had my selection tests on 3rd feb, interveiw on the 13 feb and letter to say i was succesful on the 20th feb, but since then nothing do you think this is normal?0
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