DWP Recruiting Again - 2012

[Deleted User]

39/100 applicants got an interview. 180 interviews indicates originally ~ 450 applicants.
or
39/100 applicants got an interview. 540 interviews indicates originally ~ 1350 applicants

Which is more likely?

Walter_Wall_3

Re your earlier, Brett, I concur on the nature of the test: I too found it poorly constructed. FYI I raced through the percentage stuff and the true/false business (both very easy for me, luckily), reserving the bulk of my time for the 'to what degree' material (which in my view was utterly equivocal all the way down the test). But you get my point very well, it was the same for everyone, and thus, in its own sweet way, fair!

drwho2011

Twenty_Twenty wrote: »

Well I am aware of 2 people who have booked on the same day at the same time for E London. This has now led me to believe there are more than 180 slots (15X12). It looks more like 540 now competing for 50 vacancies.

This is impossible. When any slot is booked it is removed from the list.

People may want to review my earlier posts on how the selection process is being run.

drwho2011

[quote=[Deleted User];51391729]39/100 applicants got an interview. 180 interviews indicates originally ~ 450 applicants.
or
39/100 applicants got an interview. 540 interviews indicates originally ~ 1350 applicants

Which is more likely?[/QUOTE]


The former if you discount all multiple district applicants who have received competency marks. I know of people who applied to other districts and had competencies marked, if they failed to score above 3 then they haven't received interviews even if E London is their home district. This is one of the reasons the E London interviews have been amongst the last to go out.

Just over 2000 applicants in East London passed the test, because of the transport links (i.e TFL) and the way the districts are made up the vast majority of people applied to more than one London district.

drwho2011

Twenty_Twenty wrote: »

I am quoting this with personal experience and 2 of us booked the same slot for the same day and hence not impossible. Does this happen with all the slots? I do not know. We are talking about the DWP and I would not use a term as "impossible". We are all making our own calculations, assuming the process being used and still, not any wiser. Therefore we shall wait to see once all this is over and maybe, we might find out more. So there is definitely 180 + 1 (slots)

The booking system works off a database, if a slot is booked it is removed from the list and the entry is stored in the Database and a email is posted.

It may be possible to "book" the same slot twice but even if that occurs it would likely overwrite the first booking slot. If for example you try and re-arrange your interview your slot is not displayed, even though it is now available. You would have to go out of the site and back in for the slot to be displayed again and I tested this.

Despite your views of the "DWP" the website software follows very strict rules on what is and what is not allowed, so I say it's impossible baring a bug within the system.

Koschei

I know the DWP is badly run, but never have I witnessed incompetence on such a grand scale. They may as well have just put everyone's name in a hat and drawn out who gets an interview. Come to think of it, they may have done just that in some regions.

Red3806

bakeliter wrote: »

Hmmmm, if it was that simple, why don't they just send the "no thank you" email to anyone who got at least one 3? They could have done that three weeks ago too and spared a lot of people the agony.
Perhaps there weren't enough people not getting at least one 3 to draw up a large enough list of candidates to interview in the DTV area?

But I applied for DTV and I still haven't had my comps marked I scored 80+ on the online test!

greenberet1990

has anyone for North london got a interview yet, i have good comps & online scores but still nothing. Thanks.

[Deleted User]

drwho2011 wrote: »

The former if you discount all multiple district applicants who have received competency marks. I know of people who applied to other districts and had competencies marked, if they failed to score above 3 then they haven't received interviews even if E London is their home district. This is one of the reasons the E London interviews have been amongst the last to go out.

Just over 2000 applicants in East London passed the test, because of the transport links (i.e TFL) and the way the districts are made up the vast majority of people applied to more than one London district.

This is a good explanation. Thank you.

I have applied for E. N. S. W. London based in E. London & had no competencies marked anywhere with comfortable 78th percentile. So I've got the interview.

I think it's been said before but can anyone confirm/deny if the competencies on the application form have any relevance/weight in the process at/after the interview stage? I understand the test results are now redundant. As I understand it the interview has 5 competencies and each is marked out of 9 and scores tallied. Progressing to the checks stage based on this alone?

pixiechick_2

I still haven't heard anything regarding interview or rejection from either West Yorkshire or North West. From what Ivy and Panno have said, I should be getting an interview for West Yorkshire.

I've asked this before but didn't get an answer: What happens if where you've applied isn't your 'home area'? Neither West Yorkshire nor North West (Manchester) is my home area. That's Lancashire but the jobs there were only for internal applicants.