DWP employment waiting list

True_Lies

Yes the intake was about half the expected total so that rings true and makes sense thanks mvenge.

mommarat

mvengemvenge wrote: »

Most jobcentres take on a mixture of internal and external candidates for EO positions. Bear in mind, though, that internal staff often have to go for the external route in as well as 'outsiders'. As far as I know, offices like to have a mixture, so that you don't end-up with one office full of brand new advisers and another full of experienced ones, presumably because this would create an uneven playing field, performance-wise.

I have worked for the DWP for 15 years (not JCP) and have had to go externally and sit on the ever waiting success list so I suppose it shows there is no favouritism

Tobiwan_Kenobi

Stu_Pot wrote: »

Does anyone know what the craic with pay will be if you start mid-month?

I started 15th June and received a memo that stated those starting before that date will be paid at the end of the month, but those starting after will be paid on 6th July. I guess the same will happen for others in later months.

As things stand, they still don't have my pay details as I'm still not set up on their systems...

Tobiwan_Kenobi

joyjoy999 wrote: »

Whoop whoop....................

Got my call yesterday for a start date for the 29th June in Southampton. So glad to finally get off my butt and start working again. Been out of work for 6 months.

Assessment Day 28th April
Interview Day 29th April
Successful Letter 12th May

Its been a long tearful wait and I'm glad its all over now. I'm keeping everything crossed for all of you who are still waiting. Hopefully it wont be too long now till you receive that call.

Thank you for everyone's support, if it wasnt this thread I think i would've gone mad by now.

Love and kisses to all
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Well done - There's an Induction Course in Southampton on 29th/30th June - Maybe you'll be on it...? If so I'll see you there!

Tobiwan_Kenobi

Today I heard the DWP are taking on 16,000 people for the JCPs by the autumn. They have only done 6,000 so far, so most people should be started reasonably soon.

On the down side there aren't the desks for a lot of us new recruits at the moment!

suseh97

Stu_Pot wrote: »

Does anyone know what the craic with pay will be if you start mid-month?

I started mid month and will be paid next Tuesday into my bank. Some of my colleagues are getting a cheque. Even have an online pay slip and can see exactly what I am getting. Emergency taxed but still not a bad wage.

ray1971

Yes, tell me about it.At my office we are approx 20 desks short, and we are still recruiting!!Its absolutely ridiculous, we have spent hundreds of thousands recruiting but just small change on re-designing the estates to accommodate all the extra staff.

Twitterer_2

Tobiwan_Kenobi wrote: »

I started 15th June and received a memo that stated those starting before that date will be paid at the end of the month, but those starting after will be paid on 6th July. I guess the same will happen for others in later months.

As things stand, they still don't have my pay details as I'm still not set up on their systems...

I am starting on Monday 29th, does this mean I would get paid on 6th July? I assumed it would just be the end of July with that being almost a month

Tobiwan_Kenobi

Twitterer wrote: »

I am starting on Monday 29th, does this mean I would get paid on 6th July? I assumed it would just be the end of July with that being almost a month

I'd have thought you'd be looking at end of July too.

Chi_Chi_4

Knocks82 wrote: »

Yeah Valerie..thats who i speak to..she is nice but not a lot of help to me, because i still havent sorted something so simple. I called Disclosure Scotland about 3 weeks ago, who told me that my CRB has been sent back to DWP with an address issue (which worries me because I have had about 5 CRBs due to the work i do and have all come back fine). Since then I have been calling DWP to try and resolve the issue, but cant get through to anyone who is doing the checks.

Then i get a call from DWP today (which i missed and the man never left a number) asking me to fax my CRB letter to them. Which obviously I cant because Scotland told me they sent it back to DWP and it needs completing again. Is there any other phone numbers i can call, because I spoke to Valerie again today and she was no help at all.

Hi Knocks, I have had a similar issue with DWP.. basically I sent my CRB to them with separate sheet of addresses attached... they never sent the attached sheet onto to Disclosure Scotland! So my forms all got returned to DWP and then entirely lost!!

I had to ring disclosure scotland to find out there was a problem and then tell DWP about it!.. It took three days of calling and leaving urgent messages (that were never returned) before finally ringing again and pushing to speak to a checker right away. I told the lady that answered that my application could not proceed until i spoke to someone and I heard her have a bit of a conversation with the others in the office before finally deciding to put me through!

Lovely checker man sent me out new forms which I filled in and sent back straight away... I followed this up with a phone call a week later to find that my forms had, yet again, been LOST!!! Even the checker said to me "It seems like someone up there really doesn't want you to have this job!" lol.

Anyways so I am back to the start.. but I would still be blindly waiting on the first CRB check if I had left it all up to the DWP to contact me about problems.

I really hope things go better for you and you get through to a checker soon. From my experience the checkers are really efficient when you can actually speak to them directly!