DWP employment waiting list

Truegho

Then let me elucidate: one or two have been nasty because they can't stand me even MENTIONING how bad I feel about being unemployed. They can't seem to stand anybody going on all the time about the jobs crisis. Don't know why they should be like this, as everybody is entitled to express their opinions.

katie_kt wrote: »

nasty about what though? im not understanding you fully!

venus_in_furs

Truegho- i havent come across anyone nasty on the dwp threads? We are/were all job hunters ourselves.

I have been unemployed since the beginning of Feb and my AO interview was the SECOND interview i had landed since Feb. In over half a year! I obviously had applied for loads but it looked like i wasn't bothering as no one wanted to even give me an interview! I feel so extremely fortunate that the dwp actually want to employ me. I was starting to think i was unemployable!

The first interview i had was for one of those scam pyramid scheme jobs!! They would give ANYONE an interview! Luckily i researched the company they claimed had offices all over the World and found not so much as one cheaply put together website. For a company who apparently represent American express and have offices all over the World, this is strange, oui? So basically for the last few months i have been deeply depressed and felt so low. Constant rejection is hard.

Anyway, its frustrating i know Just gotta keep your head up and ignore the snotty ignorant people. :cool:

Louise22

People are not being nasty, but there is only so much sympathy you can give one person who constantly goes on and on about the same thing and does not take any advice.

grey_eyes

tarmis17 wrote: »

hi there i was also on the irc 60227 and have a start date of 7th sept. have you recd a success letter yet????

I received my success letter dated 29 June and then about a week later a letter asking me about the pension scheme. Since then nothing. For the last week or so I have been ringing the number on the success letter but no one answers. Do you have an alternative phone number or an e mail I could try?

Thanks--I am getting desperate and worried I might get missed!

KaCee_2

still_hoping wrote: »

Hi all Had the `on waiting list` letter for the Birmingham IRC60076 position on the 24th July and have heard nothing else since. Does anyone on here know whats happening or what the state of play? Thanks for any replies.

Hey, I had a waiting list letter back in April for and EO position in the Black Country so I phoned them up and they told me I was number 80 out of 102 people on the list. I didn't think anything would come of it as I was so far down the list but yesterday I got a call asking me to start on 1st Sept :-)

If I was you, I would phone the number at the top of the letter to see where you are on the list 1st then just wait until you get a call. If you are quite far down the list like I was, then get a temp job.... RAC in Walsall are hiring! I've just been temping there!

Good luck x

venus_in_furs

Sorry to ask the same question again. But i got a success letter with no mention of a waiting list. Does that mean i will be placed when my checks are over? Or will i still go on a waiting list?

Also, do they tell you where you are on the list? Or do you have to ring up and ask?

Thanks.

slowboy

venus_in_furs wrote: »

Sorry to ask the same question again. But i got a success letter with no mention of a waiting list. Does that mean i will be placed when my checks are over? Or will i still go on a waiting list?

Also, do they tell you where you are on the list? Or do you have to ring up and ask?

Thanks.

The short answer is it all depends what position you are on the merit list, everybody goes on the merit list from the specific IRC and the higher up you are the more likely you will get the 'call'. Newcastle sometimes gives out your position on the list it depends on who you speak to

Jimisugly

ER4CH wrote: »

Hi, for all those still waiting don't worry.
Heres my advice though, contact the place you applied directly if you want to get any where!

I emailed both newcastle and the place i applied to for advice.
The place i applied got back to me the next morning at 8 am! Newcastle just got back to me a day later!

Even today, Newcastle did not know I had been offered a job starting on Monday! Newcastle, even told me they did not know a start date and they 'could' be in touch soon!


If you want my advice, contact the place you applied. I got the name of the women from where i applied on a letter, it was the letter saying what I had to bring to the interview (I got this letter when i attended the selection tests)!

All the best! x

ER4CH - I have a couple of questions that I think you could help me (and others) with. How long after your successful letter did you email/call???

Where did you get the email for the place you applied as my interview invitation came from capita??

Also I ticked about 10 different job centre locations within a ten mile radius, do you think it would be stupid to email them all???

Look forward to hearing from you, sorry to be a pain but I'm in a temp role that could end any day and don't want to sign on whilst waiting for this job (which I really really want). The mortgage needs paying as I'm sure many others on here know all too well!!!!

Thanks

Litts

Been updating my situation every so often on here.

Timeline:

March - Applied for job
April - Tests
Mid May - Interview (told 20 posts)
28th May - Success letter (no mention of waiting list), subsequently find out 14th on merit list

Mid July - After what seems like one million phonecalls with no answer! e-mail MP in charge of DWP to find out what's going on as checks still not been done!

End July - Find out checks completed

3rd August - Find out now only taking on 3 people and on "waiting list"

Absolutely fvcking fuming:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

The irony of the DWP doing this to someone is not lost on me!

Spoken to someone in customer relations this week, she told me that I should not of thought that I actually had a job when I had a success letter!!! !!!!!!! (apparently you are only supposed to assume that when you have a start date) How can a success letter be anything but an offer of a job (providing pre-employment checks are fine) and you are told at interview that there's 20 jobs and you're 14th on the merit list!!!

counterfeit

I am not sure what to think about my successful letters. Yes it's great to get them but it actually seems that it is not an indication that I will get a post.

To me, that is absolutely nuts. Given that it took over 5 weeks from interview date to letter date why could they not have already done the checks in that time.

I know for a fact that the interviews were completed on the day of my EO interview. It does not take 5 weeks to send a letter out, especially as the scoring is done on the day (according to 2 sets of my interviewers).

For example,

I sit test on 13 June - get 14 out of 15 for literacy and 20 out of 20 for numeracy.
I sit interview on 6 July and get X for competencies and X for communication.
On 7 July add 3 scores together and put my total score in a list with everybody else.

How did I do? Well enough to get through. OK - let's do the checks. All the forms were filled in at the interview (CRB, pension, Disclosure Scotland etc).

It does not add up that the letter took 5 weeks and at that stage no checks had been done. My checks should be really easy too as I haven't worked for 5 years so have no employment history to check. I already have a CRB check as I am a cricket coach and needed it to work with the kids.

So, I wonder if I have, in fact, got a job and if so, when do I start?

By the way, do I get a letter telling me I passed or failed the checks or will I just get a call with a start date?