DWP employment waiting list

lili2008

julietormesby wrote: »

Regarding referees being contacted. If HMRC cannot track your work/benefit record for the last three years for instance because you were unemployed but not claiming JSA or indeed eligible to claim then they do contact your current employer and at least one of your personal referees by ordinary post. Anyway this is what happened a week ago.

I hope this helps.

Ah, right, thanks. That makes sense.

crockpot

Your advisor at the jobcentre can give you a discretionary fund for clothes. So you need to contact them. You get an invoice that can be used at certain shops - Burtons, Dorothy Perkins and BHS are the only ones I can name of the top of my head.[/QUOTE]


Do you know if you can use it at M & S and Clarks? I have `funny feet` and can`t weat cheap shoes.

Thanks

mommarat

with regards to the dwp pay. All internal reports are completed by the end of march for eg 1/4/08 to 31/3/09 then your line manager grades you depending on you report. The salary allways goes up in july but it is usually nov before it hits your paypacket saying that for new starters it should be £20,240 and then next mar/april you will have an interview for this year with your line manager and depending on that some will be on more money than others depending how well you do your job.

kellycontrary

lili2008 wrote: »

Doubt it. People were saying personal refs aren't being contacted any more anyway.

They are - one of my personal refs was contacted by email x

Truegho

Have you ever had a situation where a person has applied to you, via Capita, for an AO job, had the interview - but then been told, after waiting in agony for the result for FOUR WEEKS, that Capita have not recorded any interview marks beside that applicant's name?? Not only that, but also being told that they are not even on the merit list??

allthegirls wrote: »

Ive read these posts with interest. Im part of the DWP recruiting team and i could answer a few questions

1 - waiting lists
We decide how many vacancies we initially wish to fill. Say its ten. We take the top ten candidates and offer them a job straight away. Everyone else goes on a waiting list in order of merit and if the govt gives the go ahead to recruit more then we just continue to take from the waiting lists. We have to create waiting lists as the possibility of further recruitment is high and rather than carrying out another recruitment exercise we can just take from the lists. We keep the lists for between 6 months to a year and them scrap them and start again.

2 Perm or temp
There is ongoing confusion about this. Basically the bulk of the jobs are temp with a view to becoming permanent. We cannot say they will become perm as the recruitment is a direct result of the recession. If the economy improves then DWP will look to shed all the staff they have newly recruited. Essentailly the govt is hedging its bets, its a wait and see thing.

3 How long are the contracts for?
This is down to individual districts but the majority are expected to be for 18 months

4 Duplicate paperwork
Many of the problems experienced by applicants is a result of multiple applications for different recruitment exercisies. My experience is that candidates have applied for 10 different recruitment exercises and as each exercise is run at a District level and not a national level, then candidates find they are getting multiple letters. The reality is that often they relate to all the different execises that have been applied for

hope this helps

janeway123

:eek:

mommarat wrote: »

I contacted Newcastle to find out why if my checks cleared mid may am I still waiting, apparently even if your checks pass the people infront of you on the merit list may not be cleared and they cant post people out of order for example if you are 15th and the 14 infront of you are still having checks cleared you have to wait. No one on my recruitment has been posted yet.:cool:

:eek::eek:That is not the best news I have heard, could be xmas then:eek::eek:

Molly175

Hi all
Has anyone received your CRB for a position in Merseyside? I sent mine back last Tuesday and still haven't heard anything.
Don't seem to be getting anywhere fast......

zuccini_athletic

Molly175 wrote: »

Hi all
Has anyone received your CRB for a position in Merseyside? I sent mine back last Tuesday and still haven't heard anything.
Don't seem to be getting anywhere fast......

I didn't get my CRB back - but then again I didn't put my address down anywhere, just the Newcastle one. Apparently they used the DS from a previous application anyway.

Seven weeks down the line from our letters (three months since applying), makes you wonder whether they want us to start at all...but staying positive!

Molly175

zuccini_athletic wrote: »

I didn't get my CRB back - but then again I didn't put my address down anywhere, just the Newcastle one. Apparently they used the DS from a previous application anyway.

Seven weeks down the line from our letters (three months since applying), makes you wonder whether they want us to start at all...but staying positive!

Im struggling to stay positive now! Have you rang for an update recently?
Keep me updated and I will do the same!

GracePsalms

lili2008 wrote: »

Initially I went on a waiting list for an interview I did 6 March. Then (early May) I got a letter saying I'd been taken off that for pre-employment checks and was told by phone that for the particular vacancy (that I was 1st on waiting list for) three had dropped out. Then there were delays sending CRB form to DS due to the office move. It was sent on 13 May and lay around with a query on it til Monday just gone, when I rang them (DS) to ask about the delay. I resolved the query then, and was told the form would now take 5 working days to come back. So it should be back at DWP by Friday or Monday and in theory I should get a post quite quickly after that. I really really hope so, as I am quite depressed about the whole process now.

Lili, don't be depressed, as you are No.1 on the list and your CRB should be with DWP soon, i'm sure you'll get the call in the next couple of weeks. Don't give up hope, you're nearly there : )