DWP Recruiting Again - 2012

greenberet1990

AleksandrOrlov wrote: »

Whats is everybody's application status according to the specific section on the website, mine is;

Applicant Status

: Situation Test complete

You have completed the Situation Test.

We are reviewing your results and your application will progressed shortly.

the same.

have you guys for the link/e-mail for the working locations form. i'm still waiting thanks.

AleksandrOrlov

greenberet1990 wrote: »

the same.

have you guys for the link/e-mail for the working locations form. i'm still waiting thanks.

Yes, got mine on Friday for the 3 regions i applied too.

Essex, East London & South West Wales

soolin

5beakyap wrote: »

That's what I thought at first, the screen layout was split in 2 A6 sections you could call it but I doubt there was info missing off...

No it was definitely missing, even my 75 min on screen timer didn't move! Called the recruitment line this morning to explain & person I spoke to said 'I wouldn't worry, u passed the test anyway' lol. So I'm not so annoyed now!

I didn't think it was a pass/fail merely an indication how you reason and score against all the applicants?

Janabiyah-Jane

Just heard from an ex colleague in the Job Centre, and they have been informed that 44000 have passed the online test:eek:. Apparently pass marks were different in each region dependant on numbers of staff required.

Not sure about the pass marks on the competencies though. Now its the waiting game.

Janabiyah-Jane

soolin wrote: »

I didn't think it was a pass/fail merely an indication how you reason and score against all the applicants?

No, some have failed, but you find this out as soon as you have taken the test. I know a few who have failed.

Killmark

Janabiyah-Jane wrote: »

Just heard from an ex colleague in the Job Centre, and they have been informed that 44000 have passed the online test:eek:. Apparently pass marks were different in each region dependant on numbers of staff required.

Not sure about the pass marks on the competencies though. Now its the waiting game.

Which means 18.3r passed the online test for each advertised vacancy.

If the PCS is to be believed it means that there are 36.6r who passed the test for each available job.

Which means you can estimate the percentile required to get to the sift stage to be in the region of 76%.

Ofcourse thats based on the national figure and it would go up and down dependent on the number who passed the test related to each job in each region, thus unless the figures were available for each region you wouldn't be able to predict more accurately than this.

Esoog

robster30 wrote: »

All Job centre recruitment for the last 3 years has been 'stage 4' as you like to put it - there has not been an internal excercise in about 4 years.

And your job description of an AO is not even close, what your source ?.

A junior store manager has more responsibility than an AO, wages are not an indication of comparable levels of resposibility Im afraid.

Thank you for that information, however please note I said "so few CIVIL SERVICE jobs have reached stage 4 external ", there is a lot more to the CS than the DWP believe it or not? It's also not as I like to put it; it's how the Civil Service likes to put it.

As for my opinion on the junior store manager; perhaps the department I work for puts greater responsibility on its staff.

I also haven't given a job description of an AO in the DWP? Since I don't work for the DWP I'm not terribly versed with their job descriptions; my original point was that I believe that the levels of responsibility were roughly similar. As I said, perhaps its just my department/not the DWP who I assume you work for.

wages are not an indication of comparable levels of resposibility Im afraid

I'd argue in many cases that they infact are. The greater the levels of responsibility; the greater the wage. Obviously techical knowledge, skills and experience also play a part.

Anyway, I think we're going to have to agree to differ. This is not adding anything to a thread that is no doubt going to grow and grow in the coming weeks.

Except companies like ASDA's etc....................... which recently announced they would be hiring 5000 staff.

Quite, so why aren't we flooded with topics about ASDA applications? Not as popular jobs with MSE or just not as complicated to apply?

Esoog

soolin wrote: »

I didn't think it was a pass/fail merely an indication how you reason and score against all the applicants?

Someone posted a few pages back that the % was against a number of people that took the test a few months ago, not a real time indication for these vacancies.

Killmark

Esoog wrote: »

Quite, so why aren't we flooded with topics about ASDA applications? Not as popular jobs with MSE or just not as complicated to apply?

Because its not as complicated to apply for. We saw the same thing with the Met Police vacancies in 2010 (which ended up being withdrawn).

You'll find similar if not greater numbers apply for retail jobs comparatively speaking. I took part in helping with a Wilkinson's recruitment drive for 140 new staff (this was after they took over a lot of the leases for Woolworths) and we would have 2500 people attend each day over a 2 day period for CV/Application screening. It was so oversubscribed that they would close the doors at 10:30, as opposed to the plan of 12:00.

Esoog

And there was me thinking everyone was desperate to join the DWP specifically!