DWP employment waiting list

Grianaig_2

FleetFanatic wrote: »

UPDATE:

Friday I got an email!

Dear ******
Please find attached important information in relation to your application for employment with DWP.
Employee Shared Services

The "important information" was the same standard letter sent to others about still being on a waiing list. Having given up the ghost with these muppets, I couldn't resist replying:

Dear Sir/Madam
(I'm not sure which as you monkeys all look the same)

I have decided to advise you to shove your waiting list, quite bluntly, where the sun does not shine. I have never had such misfortune to have both my time and intelligence wasted as the day I sat your assessments.

First, having received a telephone call; upon my arrival you were not expecting me according to your list of names. Then you did not understand the concept of somebody not having either a driving licence nor passport, which throughout the day I had to explain several times. Just for the record, I do not drive as a result of ownership of free rail travel (past employment rights kept under redundancy) and quite simply - the cost is not justified in my circumstances. No passport? Why would I have a passport when I am afraid of flying? For the record, a passport IS NOT an identity card, it is a document to allow travel. The sooner you muppets understand this concept, the better.

No wonder I passed both assessments with full marks, I guess that this has scared somebody within the DWP; the thought of employing somebody with an IQ higher than an ameoba must be truly terrifying. As somebody within your organisation has seen fit to waste tremendous sums of money on vacancies that did not actually exist, I feel that it would only now be apt for further sums to be wasted on clown suits as the new DWP uniform.

As you may have guessed, I no longer expect to get a position with the DWP.

That's excellent !

I also se Yvette Cooper today stated that unemployment is expected to rise. Great forward planning to have a recruitment freeze then.....

robredz

@ Grianaig
"That's excellent !

I also se Yvette Cooper today stated that unemployment is expected to rise. Great forward planning to have a recruitment freeze then....."

But that is how government muppets operate, cut back where there is need for growth. DWP will be ill placed to cope and more money will be wasted on more recruitment when they realise they have stuffed up. Of course the lists will have expired by then, and a new bunch of muppets may be in charge.......

Search_2

I haven't been on this thread for quite a while. Been waiting for a post since June and I was near the top of the merit list. Lots of people got placed but I didn't. I have been complaining for months but getting nowhere at all.

Is there anything like Freedom of Information requests (to find out why they placed certain people) or an official Civil Service complaints procedures which could help? I have asked time and time again for complaints procedure but they don't ever give me information on it.

Just been reading back the last few pages and really sorry to hear that there appear to be lots of people in similar position.

desperado2

oreilly wrote: »

Well, in the end, someone is going to get elected. I don't want to hijack the thread into a party politics thing, but despite how dark things might look at the moment, and taking aside the obvious disappointments, I still think the facts suggest that the last 12 years have seen a vastly greater investment in the kind of spending that affects an ordinary (not rich, not city worker, not investor) person like me than you'll ever see under Jellyfish Cameron and his bunch.

Ah the naivete of folk embedded in party rather than politics.. As a non married childless person living with another non married parent of a 26 yr old, I have news for you.. neiother of us has high flying jobs, not stockbrokers, and in fact only one of us has an "above average" salary.. but I see less of my money than ever before, and what I do have is taxed to !!!!!!y when I spend it.. I remember when petrol was 60p a litre.. not 72p a litre in tax.. mileage?? I couldnt afford it if I wanted to!

natomar

Letter to Yvette Cooper

Dear Mrs Cooper

I initially applied for IRC 61153 Executive Officer position with the DWP in August 2009; I received a successful letter in September 2009 on a waiting list for 12 months.

My complaint is that thousands of people are in the same position as me, on waiting lists and yet new vacancies were still being advertised and recruited for, I have previously written to my MP who replied with comments from xxxxxxxxxxx of Jobcentreplus
stating that “since November a National pause in Jobcentreplus recruitment has meant we have not been in position to recruit any further staff” my original letter stated that thousands of people were in the same position as myself, (on a waiting list IRC 61153) and yet IRC 64065 was advertised again in November, interviews held end of November (Old Trafford) for Greater Manchester East and West District. Offices include Stockport/ Tameside, Oldham/Rochdale, Bury/Bolton, across the country other IRC’s were advertised and interviews held, at various hotels often on a 2 week basis, my complaint is the DWP have squandered public money on this charade of a recruitment drive, Capita & Manpower were employed to host the tests & interviews, the hiring of the impressive stadiums and hotels. To the end result of putting people on waiting lists, I point you to:- http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1380533&page=410
were there are thousands of people awaiting placement, why were vacancies still being advertised when recruitment as stated had ceased, IRC 61505 Essex was advertised in July 2009, 100 plus successful candidates put on waiting list and then IRC 64225 Essex vacancies was further advertised in November, NOT ONE person has been placed from either of these two IRC’s what a complete waste of time & money, people on the forum above have turned down other positions unaware of the DWP fiasco.

The position is now that people who received successful letters from
June 2009 – December 2009, no communication has been received by any candidate by way of an update, until an email from Employee Shared Services on 28/01/2010


Re your application with Jobcentre Plus for – IRC61153
We are currently updating our records and wanted to inform you that you are now on our waiting list for the above exercise.
Unfortunately, as a result of a review of Jobcentre Plus’s staffing requirement, we are not in a position to offer you a job at this time. I appreciate that this may come as a disappointment to you. However the waiting list does not expire until 30/06/2010
We will be in touch during this time if an opportunity arises. If you have not heard from us by this date then unfortunately we will not be able to offer you a post.

Every person that has been successful has received this standard letter, basically there are no positions.

This fruitless & extortionate waste of tax payers’ money along with advertising positions which did not exist, the total lack of disregard to applicants, the outrageous, ineptitude of the DWP to be able to forecast staff levels and to recruit accordingly I find absolutely astounding.

DWP the institution for getting people back to work, GOD HELP US!!

wodgerdodger

Superb letter, must have made you feel really satisfied sending it and able to vent your spleen. Perhaps a copy to the Mail may have been an idea?

I would love to think that it will have some impact but the cynic in me says a lower grade minion will mean it never reaches her desk and will be filed. After all would they want this going public in the run up to an election with all parties looking to cut costs.

On reflection copying into David Cameron may be more fruitful!

robredz

wodgerdodger wrote: »

Superb letter, must have made you feel really satisfied sending it and able to vent your spleen. Perhaps a copy to the Mail may have been an idea?

I would love to think that it will have some impact but the cynic in me says a lower grade minion will mean it never reaches her desk and will be filed. After all would they want this going public in the run up to an election with all parties looking to cut costs.

On reflection copying into David Cameron may be more fruitful!

Nice thought but the name of their game now is to cut costs, so those already in DWP will have to work harder, because the cavalry have been stopped

desperado2

I would sufggrest copes to the Guardian and the Sun actually.. Guardian becasue it is a bit more touchy feely about this, and the Sun because it would be like setting a terrier in a rabbit warren.! especially as mentioned, Yvette Cooper will not want publicity of this kind in the run up to an election

RED_FRANKIE

Hey Natomar great , great letter my friend - I actually felt better myself just reading what you had managed to get out... I am on the IRC61153 trail of misery too - my success letter was 2nd November after recruitment/interview at man citys stadium on 28th October. I then had the CRB check back and the refs got done i know and finally an email for preferred locations ( to which I ticked them all)

I then didnt get anything till that vile email I think we all got last week or so.

I kmow all of the above is going over old ground but I think part of me still doesnt believe something isnt going to come for some, if not all of us???

What a bunch of absolute clueless !!!!!! to screw us all up like this..

Anyway, just wanted to say great letter and thanks for saying everything I think we all feel

robredz

desperado2 wrote: »

I would sufggrest copes to the Guardian and the Sun actually.. Guardian becasue it is a bit more touchy feely about this, and the Sun because it would be like setting a terrier in a rabbit warren.! especially as mentioned, Yvette Cooper will not want publicity of this kind in the run up to an election

Copy to as many papers as you like, the scale of this needs exposure, they should have assessed how many people they needed before throwing vast amounts of public funds recruiting hopeful candidates then casting us adrift to rot on a waiting list that may well expire without most of us being placed. the DWP is understaffed if PCS are to be believed, and Yvette Cooper, or her successor, will not know what hits them when unemployment continues to rise, and the unlucky newly jobless have to wait ever longer to claim benefits from an overworked agency. The Sun however would likely say the whole exercise was a waste, and go with savage cuts to existing DWP staff, and I don't think the posts on offer were non-job enough for the Guardian, being as they were to help with processing benefits and helping unemployed people, not 5 a day and diversity co-ordinators for £40k+. I must watch out, I am becoming increasingly cynical by the day.........................