DWP Recruiting Again - 2012

redsky1977

Just to confirm - is the CRB form going to be filled out at the interview?
The list of documents doesn't link to a copy.

Precious1

noj666 wrote: »

Still no news of interview. Are others still waiting?
I do hope that I will hear soon.

Still waiting for north London! My surname begins with y tho! Lol so if it is alphabetical. Then I'll be towards the end

Lorac05

Erazor wrote: »

It's in the competency guidance pdf, which you can find on the DWP website.

I have both the competency pdf and interview pdf from the DWP page and neither seem to have the comments you quoted. Could you please post a link to the document you are referencing please. It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

redsky1977

Lorac05 wrote: »

Well even though the overall status still shows 'Situation test complete' the feedback status under my Black Country application has now had all the comp scores set to 1 and the feedback for all of them states the following:

Please review Staffs and Shrops recruitment to access your feedback. If you are an external candidate (i.e. not currently employed in the Civil Service), and have progressed to the sift and/or interview stage, you will receive one set of sift feedback, and one set of interview feedback (if you have been interviewed), no matter how many applications you have submitted. If you are currently employed in the Civil Service and have applied both for external exercises and internal (Civil Service only) exercises you will receive separate feedback for the internal and external exercises.

Now I have been invited to an interview by Staffs/Shrops - which I am attending - as well as B'ham with scores of 77676 and a percentile score of 94%. Does the above mean I have also passed the interview criteria for BC and if I do well enough to get offered a job will that cover the BC areas as well as Staffs/Shrops and B'ham? It really isn't clear from the above and was wondering if calling the recruitment line would be able to clarify the situuation.

NB - I did accept the interview from B'ham as well as that came in prior to the Staffs/Shrops interview but subsequently received an e-mail from the recruitment office in Staffs/Shrops telling me I had 2 interviews booked but to chose one to attend as they would ensure the results would be passed onto the other district. I chose Stafford as that is a 10-15 min drive door to door whereas the B'ham one would be a 10 min drive, a 35 min train ride and then another 20 min to get to the imterview location.

I have an interview boked for B'ham and both my BC & Staffs/shrops applications have defaulted to 1s and say 'refer to B'ham & Solihull score feedback'
I was under the impression that there will be one interview only and if you are successful you can choose the district/office you would like to work in BUT this will be a preference exercise - if too many people opt for the same district/office then you may not get your 1st, 2nd etc choice and may even have to go on a waiting list.:undecided

vwgirl

woohoo- just checked and my interview feeback is on = 8787 really pleased! Just have to wait and see what place on waiting list is now x

redsky1977

vwgirl wrote: »

woohoo- just checked and my interview feeback is on = 8787 really pleased! Just have to wait and see what place on waiting list is now x

Great scores! Well done vwgirl! :T
When I've had my interview I'm considering not even checking out my scores - might just wait to see whether I receive a 'successful' email. Too much tension! hehe

parfittme

redsky1977 wrote: »

Just to confirm - is the CRB form going to be filled out at the interview?
The list of documents doesn't link to a copy.

Filled mine out at interview earlier today.

Precious1

vwgirl wrote: »

woohoo- just checked and my interview feeback is on = 8787 really pleased! Just have to wait and see what place on waiting list is now x

Well done.

Any tips on how to write the competances?

Erazor

Lorac05 wrote: »

I have both the competency pdf and interview pdf from the DWP page and neither seem to have the comments you quoted. Could you please post a link to the document you are referencing please. It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Ok give me your hand I'll walk you through it.

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/competency-guidance.pdf

Bottom of Page 4.

Print it out and point it out if they ask a specific bullet point question, from what I gather all questions should aim at broad section of the competencies only.

redsky1977

parfittme wrote: »

Filled mine out at interview earlier today.

Thanks! I thought so but thought it best to double check.
How did interview go?