DWP Recruiting Again - 2012

pinkflamingo

I got the impression that it would be literacy and numeracy again to confirm that you, and you alone, took the online tests. Nothing to stress over.

However finding a possible 9 P60's for the last 3 years (I temp) including a few companies that went out of business and never sent them out should be fun

daidai

vindallou wrote: »

A friend of mines mother works within a DWP department and he has told me that there will be further tests at the interview.....:eek:

Anyone know anything about this yet?

Hope so as it may expose any cheating that has occurred in the application process.

gettingready

cherry-pie wrote: »

Hmmm... 35% is just bizarre. But then the whole process is. Makes you wonder at some of the motives behind it though.

Exactly - what are the reasons/motives for such a low pass mark?

To accomdate whom exactly?

35% is beyond a joke....

TC54

pinkflamingo wrote: »

I got the impression that it would be literacy and numeracy again to confirm that you, and you alone, took the online tests. Nothing to stress over.

However finding a possible 9 P60's for the last 3 years (I temp) including a few companies that went out of business and never sent them out should be fun

I'm missing P60 from the DWP!!! Left mid April so my P60 floated around my old office and eventually vanished! :rotfl:

quijibo

Walter_Wall wrote: »

Out of nine. But it's about how low you go, not how high. As I've said anything with a 4 in it is a straight fail - your lowest is a 5, so at the moment you're in with a shout at an interview.

Apparently it's anything below a 4 -- so a 3 is a straight fail, not a 4.

sammyjammy

Walter_Wall wrote: »

Out of nine. But it's about how low you go, not how high. As I've said anything with a 4 in it is a straight fail - your lowest is a 5, so at the moment you're in with a shout at an interview.

This isn't correct. A 4 is an acceptable pass score for a competency. As has been said before if you get 3,9,9,9,9 you're out but if you get 4,4,4,4,4 you still have a chance, you have to reach an acceptable level in all the competencies. They will interview a max of 3 poeple for each vacancy they have so the 5x4 will become a score of 20 which might get you an interview or it maybe that they can only interview those with a score higher than 25 or 30. So if a score of 20 doesn't get you an interview you've still "passed" but there were too many that got a better score than you, in a differnet recruitment exercise that could have got you an interview. It works the same way with the interview, you may score 5x4 and get a job or you may not.

Gael21

pinkflamingo wrote: »

I got the impression that it would be literacy and numeracy again to confirm that you, and you alone, took the online tests. Nothing to stress over.

However finding a possible 9 P60's for the last 3 years (I temp) including a few companies that went out of business and never sent them out should be fun

Noooo! Don't panic!
You only get one P60 per tax year and it has to be issued by the company you were employed by on the last day of the tax year (5th April). If you changed employer during any given tax year, your earnings info will have been carried forward on your P45. (And if you temp for agencies, they should provide the P60.)
So the good news is you will only be looking for 3 P60s, not 9!:beer:

Walter_Wall_3

Yes, that 4 should have been a 3, as it was when I first posted. Sorry - now corrected.

On the competences, I couldn't get anything further out of them than 'a three is a straight fail, anything else gives you a chance'. Apart from that, as I said, the districts (apparently) reserve the right to alter the cut.

This I suppose is the most annoying thing about these DWP sifts: you're in the position where even though you know how you've scored, and even though you have been told that you are in principle okay for progression, there is no definitive information. It's exactly the sort of thing that JCP Employment Teams moan about, day in, day out.

scooterchick

gettingready wrote: »

Exactly - what are the reasons/motives for such a low pass mark?

To accomdate whom exactly?

35% is beyond a joke....

Remember that 35% is the percentile. IE there are minimal point between the centiles meaning the difference between 99% and 35% isn't really very much. It's about attaining a standard. Someone falling into the 35th percentile would actually have had a reasonable score and 'passed' the test. 35% is not beyond a joke, it's an acceptable score.

stargazer30

gettingready wrote: »

No it will not - this is what we have been told week after week after week... sigh....

I just can not get my head round the fact that East London set the pass mark at 35%.

Everyone raised their pass mark but East London lowered theirs - WHY?

To accomodate whom exactly I wonder......,

I have been reading your posts throughout and really feel for you - I have an interview but I empathise with the waiting and frustration it has caused. There are definite loopholes in this recruitment. I applied S.Wessex and London districts including East London.

Because S.Wessex have given me an interview as my home district currently, (apparently according to another poster this is because there were fewer applicants and therefore competencies were not scored) it means if I am successful, I will be able to choose to work in a London district. Although of course I am personally fortunate...it doesn't change the fact that certain London district only applicants are being put at a disadvantage by this kind of loophole.

I have been through this recruitment before and although it took a long time to actually be placed and start work with DWP, it was by no means as much of a complicated and (from what I can tell) unfair process. I understand this is a much bigger recruitment, but they should have put a lot more thought into how it is handled.

I really hope the wait for you will soon be over...good luck.