Census Jobs

dawyldthing

dou_jyr wrote: »

omfg i'm beginning to get a complex reading this plus prev posts from collectors feeling they don't have enough to do! i have 3 EDs each with 250+ addresses but they are all within close proximity so no travelling between them..

thats alot, my 320 houses are all within an hour from start to finish if you walked between them without knocking on doors. Houses wise if people hadn't filled them in it would be about 1500 or so

lvm

Just in case this is of any use to anyone...

I'm a Census Enumerator in Edinburgh and I received a text informing me that they are now recruiting for Non-Compliance staff. I assume you can just go straight onto this job even if you are an Enumerator.

It's not Scotland's Census that are dealing with it though - it's Pertemps in Edinburgh.

I guess other areas will get this too so now's the time to ask if you're still looking for extra work...

dawyldthing

dou_jyr wrote: »

yes, that's true. it didn't occur to me you might actually live in the ED you're doing - i thought no one was assigned EDs they lived in for confidentiality reasons.

I'm doing all the streets around our house and on my old street i lived on. Plus I have last weeks workload and I know they are behind as a friend sent her paperwork off Monday on my round and its still not crossed off

leeann79

we have a new lady joining fieldstaff today so there is hope for people still waiting.

does phase 2 start next wednesday????

dou_jyr

we've got a new collector joining today as well. not entirely sure why, as i thought everything seemed to be under control. must be something going on i'm not in the loop about.

jacko909090

em80 wrote: »

maybe I'm getting that part wrong then.

I basically live 5 mins from my work and I live inside the areas I have to cover, so I count it as my workload like I was told.

The ED is the sub-area that includes the addresses you have been asked to visit in your workload and will be the area within the red line on your map.

For mileage purposes you can claim once you are in your Co-ordinators area - which is the larger area including all the ED's your co-ordinator is responsible for. If you are outside this then you claim from when you cross the border into the area. (or at least that was the decision made by my Area Manager that I have passed to my collector team).

T

Purse_String

Still waiting... its been over a month now since the conditional offer. Why can't they email you about what is holding things up. I assume most people have already started now. If they have over recruited, why don't they say? Its a disgrace to keep you hanging on like this.

velissaria

In late March I sent a message to Capita explaining why I was not interested any more in the Collector's post and asking for details regarding the formal complaint procedure (I thought that since the gov is involved there should be one).

I got no reply, but the job related emails continued to arrive - as well as a census Collector's booklet! - so I sent a complaint regarding my bad experience with the whole recruitment process to [EMAIL="census.customerservices@ons.gsi.gov.uk"]census.customerservices@ons.gsi.gov.uk[/EMAIL]. I hoped for some independent reply, so imagine my surprise when I received a large email with little substance by a Capita employee ("Census Recruitment Enquiries, For and on behalf of ONS") starting with the phrase "Your email has been passed to us by the Office for National Statistics, as Capita are responsible for managing recruitment for the 2011 Census."

I know that Capita are responsible for managing recruitment for the current census, this is exactly why I wanted my complaint to be dealt by an independent authority within the ONS!

I wrote back to the Capita person asking for full disclosure of my Siftability tests score, as well as feedback on my applications and my job interview for the Census Collector post. No reply whatsoever.

1) Don't they have a legal obligation to respond to such requests??

2) Isn't there a complaint procedure outside Capita??


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Kate78

Purse_String wrote: »

Still waiting... its been over a month now since the conditional offer. Why can't they email you about what is holding things up. I assume most people have already started now. If they have over recruited, why don't they say? Its a disgrace to keep you hanging on like this.

On the daily email from our co-ordinator, he said that another new collector had popped up on the system. Of course the workload for this week has already been distributed so they will be buddied with another collector this week.

It's a totally cack-handed recruitment courtesy of Crapita.

em80

jacko909090 wrote: »

The ED is the sub-area that includes the addresses you have been asked to visit in your workload and will be the area within the red line on your map.

For mileage purposes you can claim once you are in your Co-ordinators area - which is the larger area including all the ED's your co-ordinator is responsible for. If you are outside this then you claim from when you cross the border into the area. (or at least that was the decision made by my Area Manager that I have passed to my collector team).

T

I live inside the Co-ordinators area