DWP employment waiting list

kicktoria

Ok - this is an indication of how NOT on it I am at the moment.. I had planned to post in the interview thread!

freakyogre

jessbob wrote: »

I am sure that they don't send for the checks unless you are offered employment, otherwise they would have already sent off 4 times for mine !!

Sodthisforagameofsoldiers wrote: »

I was going to say Bad Luck as well, but let's wait and see what they actually c#####d up first, hope it's the original letter and tht should have been a Congrat's one's!

Well she emailed back today to advise she didn't need it as it's only required if I were to be employed by them. Perhaps I should have just sent it and kept quiet

I mentioned it at the job centre today and the man seemed a bit shocked!

Nevermind, nothing has changed really, just a bit of added confusion.

d1o

grey_eyes wrote: »

Congratulations! Thanks for this. I have heard today that one of my personal referees has been contacted so maybe things are starting to move for me.

Where are you going to be working? Did they give you a choice of offices and are you permanent?

Even though the ad had been for west london, I reckon they looked at my address and when they called, they offered me something quite close to me in the east london area...a 30 minute bus ride actually.

No, it's a fixed term contract.

I wonder how easy it is to extend these or make them permanent....any ideas.

heathertheblether

hi there! I had my interview for AO today - would you like to know what the questions were, etc?

tallnposh

I have looked at this thread with great interest as I was once a DWP staff member and this post may seem bitter but I'm telling it how it was. Six years ago I was offered a job with the DWP, I gratefully accepted (as I thought that this would be a fab job, civil servant etc), only to be told I was on a waiting list with others. They kept us waiting for a year then gave us a 52 week contract with a view to being made permanent. They took us right up to the wire with this one and told us that they would have to finish us just before Christmas. I was a single parent with two small boys - this is not what I wanted to hear right before Christmas. We were informed at the eleventh hour that we were being kept on with a permanent contract, I could have cried with relief! I lasted three years in the job before I went off with work related stress (Jobcentre - well, you can imagine lol!) When I came back I was told I would be facing a decision maker interview as to whether I could keep my job or not. They kept me waiting for six months with that hanging over me then finally said that as I had taken no more sick days off they weren't going to take it any further. I worked for another year with no sickness but had to go in the end, I couldn't stand it any more. I left to work for the NHS for less money and have never looked back. There are lots of occasions and situations that I could mention but the moral of this story is RUN......save yourselves, every day the thumbscrews get tighter and I have seen excellent staff leave in their droves. It may seem like a good well paid job at first but all that glitters is not gold.

venus_in_furs

tallnposh wrote: »

I have looked at this thread with great interest as I was once a DWP staff member and this post may seem bitter but I'm telling it how it was. Six years ago I was offered a job with the DWP, I gratefully accepted (as I thought that this would be a fab job, civil servant etc), only to be told I was on a waiting list with others. They kept us waiting for a year then gave us a 52 week contract with a view to being made permanent. They took us right up to the wire with this one and told us that they would have to finish us just before Christmas. I was a single parent with two small boys - this is not what I wanted to hear right before Christmas. We were informed at the eleventh hour that we were being kept on with a permanent contract, I could have cried with relief! I lasted three years in the job before I went off with work related stress (Jobcentre - well, you can imagine lol!) When I came back I was told I would be facing a decision maker interview as to whether I could keep my job or not. They kept me waiting for six months with that hanging over me then finally said that as I had taken no more sick days off they weren't going to take it any further. I worked for another year with no sickness but had to go in the end, I couldn't stand it any more. I left to work for the NHS for less money and have never looked back. There are lots of occasions and situations that I could mention but the moral of this story is RUN......save yourselves, every day the thumbscrews get tighter and I have seen excellent staff leave in their droves. It may seem like a good well paid job at first but all that glitters is not gold.

I appreciate your warnings, but as someone who lost their job just before Xmas also and has been unemployed since then (2 interviews in this time) i am desperate for employment, like quite a few people also hoping for a dwp job. The stress of having no job and no money to live or do anything to me is far greater than a crappy job i hate! I have yet to find a job i enjoy!

I have never considered this my dream job and certainly did not go to uni to be an AO, but i am more than grateful to get given a chance to work finally, and gain more experience and skills to maybe one day find a more enjoyable job. As at the moment i don't think anyone else would look at me twice!

Hopefully i one day will get a job to do with my degree, until then i am happy for any rubbish job to keep my head above water! Not saying this job will be rubbish...i havent started yet, but based on your comments

Orb_2

tallnposh wrote: »

I couldn't stand it any more. I left to work for the NHS for less money and have never looked back. There are lots of occasions and situations that I could mention but the moral of this story is RUN......save yourselves, every day the thumbscrews get tighter and I have seen excellent staff leave in their droves. It may seem like a good well paid job at first but all that glitters is not gold.

Just to balance out the above I've not yet met anyone working within the JC environment who doesn't like the job - many of them have been there 20 years or more.

Where'd you get the "well paid" bit from as well?

trixxi

Looking for a bit more input....... (i posted earlier)
I got a disclosure scotland, thru post this morning, got my success letter with 6 month waiting list last week.
Is this a good sign??
What do you think??

venus_in_furs

trixxi wrote: »

Looking for a bit more input....... (i posted earlier)
I got a disclosure scotland, thru post this morning, got my success letter with 6 month waiting list last week.
Is this a good sign??
What do you think??

Sounds good. Do you know if any of your references has been contacted as of yet? Its impossible to tell when you will get a job still (even with a success letter with no waiting list the wait can be a while apparently) but i should imagine that is a sign things are progressing well. x

counterfeit

I have had my successful letter, Disclosure Scotland returned, my referees have done their bit and now I am waiting.

I wonder how long I will wait.