DWP employment waiting list

pebbles88

I received a letter this morning advising that they have a post to offer me now, and can i contact them asap (i recently changed tel number) ooh i cant wait for tuesday to come around now!

tigerlily

Hi all, I had my official offer letter today with a start date of 1st June which suits me fine as I will have enough A/L from my current job to have a weeks holiday between the two! Quick question, when working out annual leave owed to me between the beginning of the annual leave year which is 1st April and when I leave 31st May would I just divide my yearly entitlement by 52 then times by the weeks necessary?

NewShoes

tigerlily wrote: »

Hi all, I had my official offer letter today with a start date of 1st June which suits me fine as I will have enough A/L from my current job to have a weeks holiday between the two! Quick question, when working out annual leave owed to me between the beginning of the annual leave year which is 1st April and when I leave 31st May would I just divide my yearly entitlement by 52 then times by the weeks necessary?

Congratz! Your AL will depend on how your company works it out. Some companies may do it the way u suggested. However, some companies say you earn (for example) 2 days AL etitlement for every month you work.

tazzy2307

tigerlily wrote: »

Hi all, I had my official offer letter today with a start date of 1st June which suits me fine as I will have enough A/L from my current job to have a weeks holiday between the two! Quick question, when working out annual leave owed to me between the beginning of the annual leave year which is 1st April and when I leave 31st May would I just divide my yearly entitlement by 52 then times by the weeks necessary?

congratulations on receiving your start date - you give hope to us all!.;)

tigerlily

tazzy2307 wrote: »

congratulations on receiving your start date - you give hope to us all!.;)

Tell me about it.......the closing date for the job I applied for was Dec 19th 2008!!! Don't give up!!

suewiththeblues

does anybody know what date dwp pay wages in on? i start next week and am trying to sort my finances out today! ?

lili2008

suewiththeblues wrote: »

does anybody know what date dwp pay wages in on? i start next week and am trying to sort my finances out today! ?

If it's like the rest of the Civil Service, last actual day of the month unless it's a Sat or Sun or bank holiday Monday, in which case last Friday of the month.

Regarding the HEO test, I have now had the links sent. Has anyone done it yet? Is it difficult? Are they situations tests or critical reasoning or what?

samr_2

lili2008 wrote: »

Regarding the HEO test, I have now had the links sent. Has anyone done it yet? Is it difficult? Are they situations tests or critical reasoning or what?

There are 6 cases.
For each case there is a passage of writing describing a situation and some tables of numbers relating to what has been described.
There are a few multi-choice questions about the passage. For example 'From the info given which of these options can you be sure is true...'
Then there are some maths questions for each case- usually %s
Finally you have a few questions where you have to grade some possible responses to a situation - so, something similar to the online application for EO/AO position.

Each case follows a similar format. You have 60 minutes to complete all 6 cases. This starts when you are presented with the first case (there is an on-screen timer) not when you first open the link - there's some stuff to fill in first.

Hope that helps.

lili2008

samr wrote: »

There are 6 cases.
For each case there is a passage of writing describing a situation and some tables of numbers relating to what has been described.
There are a few multi-choice questions about the passage. For example 'From the info given which of these options can you be sure is true...'
Then there are some maths questions for each case- usually %s
Finally you have a few questions where you have to grade some possible responses to a situation - so, something similar to the online application for EO/AO position.

Each case follows a similar format. You have 60 minutes to complete all 6 cases. This starts when you are presented with the first case (there is an on-screen timer) not when you first open the link - there's some stuff to fill in first.

Hope that helps.

It certainly does help.

But it doesn't fill me with confidence....

Oh well, I'll give it a go.

Thanks.

lili2008

Just done it! Ow, my head hurts!