DWP Job Offer...but I didnit attend the interview?!

mohthom

Just an FYI - I went into it with my eyes open, having friends and family in senior positions, so knew what to expect from the department and how to throw a curveball or two.

There should be, according to DWP policy, someone of managerial level (i.e. someone able to discuss it with you) during office hours - including lunchbreaks - without exception. No part of the office should be without this cover at any time between 9 and 5, and if it's the Newcastle office you're dealing with please feel free to PM me - if you 'fess up and don't get offered the job I have the name/number/E-mail address of the person you need to speak to (who, I must add, is also VERY professional) -a services manager in the same office. Maybe we should all get together and catalogue a few of these complaints to put something more structured into writing for MPs etc..

Problems with the DWP is one of the few things you can speak to your MP about these days. If they've messed you about, speak to them. They work for you.

horrorhag

i am very interested as to what they say, keep us informed.:rotfl:

mohthom

Also, just to remind the OP . . .

I looked over your previous posts and you've still got a dissertation to write. Don't ignore it just because the DWP suck!

onlyforboards_2

mohthom wrote: »

Also, just to remind the OP . . .

I looked over your previous posts and you've still got a dissertation to write. Don't ignore it just because the DWP suck!

Lol! Don't think you can come to this thread as a distraction! :D:D:D

britcar

I know you are tempted to take the job but believe me you will be caught. When I started with them the passport photo I provided during the assessment day was on the managers desk - so that he could check I was the person who sat the test.

rcool80

No phone call back yet...I'll try again on Monday. I'm just going to tell them the situation and say I received this letter by mistake. I could just ignore it but I think its better to get it cleared up once and for all. And I'll certianly learn from this experience!

And yes I should be writing my dissertation...I cant let the DWP distract me from work anymore! I'd better get on with it! :rotfl:

mohthom

PM me for that number when they don't call you back!

teabelly

You don't know the job offer was a mistake only that the letter contains factual errors! Then ask the person you speak to what made them offer you the job. Hopefully that should give you enough information as to whether it was meant for you or someone else. If they say it was the cracking interview then you get to tell them that you didn't go to the interview. Wait and listen for the very awkward silence that will follow, probably some shouting and then an apology

downshifter

rcool80 wrote: »

I'm concerned that some poor person with the same surname as mine did a very good interview, got the job and they sent me the letter by mistake. I don't want to take anyone else's job!

Absolutely (and I've corrected the typos in your quote too as it bothers you so much!!!!) This very point, hardly mentioned at all in 3 pages of comments, would be enough alone to make me confess immediately. I couldn't live with myself if I thought I'd taken someone else's job.

mohthom

Sigrid,

People want to work for the DWP because it's a job. There's not that many of them out there at the minute. Not only that, but it's not a bad place to work (flexitime, paid lunch breaks, good pension scheme, ridiculous H&S and union backing etc. etc.) - the only drawback being the people you'd have to work with.

For what it's worth, I DID make someone have a "!!!! day/week" when they made a mess of my application - because I paid for that application to be dealt with in a professional manner through payment of taxes (and yes, I have paid taxes believe it or not) and it was not. Complaining in this manner is one of the only ways to improve the system - be that changing procedure, altering computer software, retraining staff or cutting loose incompetent employees (though your implication is that the only type of effectual complaint is shouting, which is simply untrue - the most effective complaints are constructive, calm and reasoned). If, as you suggest, the member of staff has spoken to 'loads' of people who have received the wrong letter, I would suggest that either a system or a person is ineffective and should be removed from the system (and payroll) completely - such poor levels of working are totally unacceptable to me as a taxpayer.

If you work for the DWP, I'm shocked by your arrogant tone. Regarding the work being 'relentless' - in the private sector, you could either deal with the 'relentless' workload or go out of business, have no job, or be fired. It's only those on the public service gravy train that don't have to do this - another reason so many people look to be employed in the public sector. To be more than a month behind on the 'In' pile would have any administrator sacked in the private sector.

Addendum: I am also sure that should any HR representative send out letters confirming job offers to those that have not interviewed or undertaken company-standard selection tests would be disciplined/fired immediately in the 'real world' - why should the DWP be any different?