DWP Recruiting Again - 2012

Twenty_Twenty

quo-vadis wrote: »

No scores yet and I believe we had the interview on the same day, March the 14th! Maybe they misplaced my scores, I wouldn't mind taking the interview again:)

I am expecting something today or tomorrow based on the pattern so far. I had mine on the 14th and I believe Poker 21 had it on the 17th. Someone on this thread who had theirs on the 13th at E Lon received theirs yesterday. Hopefully not much longer.

LC86_2

I popped into my local office the other day to have lunch with an old friend. They said it was looking like May to let people know if they were offered a position or not. And they finished interviewing around one month ago.

KeyserSoze888

LC86 wrote: »

I popped into my local office the other day to have lunch with an old friend. They said it was looking like May to let people know if they were offered a position or not. And they finished interviewing around one month ago.

Which region?

Tazdingo

Does anyone know what response times should be on an appeal that 'process wasn't followed'??

poker21

Tazdingo wrote: »

Does anyone know what response times should be on an appeal that 'process wasn't followed'??

I just looked on the Direct Gov website and found this, but I think this is for customers complaining about a claim.
You should expect to get a full reply within ten working days of telling Jobcentre Plus about your complaint.

on the guidance they don't give specific time frame, this is what I found on the guidance

 Applicants who are unhappy with the outcome. These complaints should be
dealt with and replied to in line with normal delivery business customer
service standards. If the complaints are about the selection policy, it may be
useful for Line managers to liaise with the relevant HR Business Partner

famzn

Hi Everyone
How come no one is talking about Northwest region? i have mine on 29th . has anyone got any feedback on interview? are the questions tough to answer? im getting nurvous as days goes by.....please help

thunderplex

famzn wrote: »

Hi Everyone
How come no one is talking about Northwest region? i have mine on 29th . has anyone got any feedback on interview? are the questions tough to answer? im getting nurvous as days goes by.....please help

Fear not. The interviewers for Manchester are really nice, and they word the questions to get the most out of you. Best of luck with it!

JEEC

I've been lurking since the beginning and felt it was about time I made a post.
I want to say a big thank you to everyone who posted helpful and constructive advice in particular all posters who gave advice about the STAR method and MakemBill (sp?) who posted advice about making a table with important information in it.

I was interviewed for North West region in Manchester. I only got 4s and 5s on my original sift competencies. I beefed up those examples and had 5 back-ups prepared just in case the questions they asked didn't fit with my existing competencies.

The interviewers were lovely, but I got flustered, started rambling, lost track of the question on more than one occasion, stopped and asked them to repeat it. I knew I must have done badly as one of the interviewers said at the start that they may ask me questions to get more information, but I thought I must have been so far off track that they didn't bother. I was really annoyed with myself as I missed out so much extra information I had prepared. I was lucky that 4 of my examples I was able to use without any changes, and I only had to tweak the 5th slightly, yet I still managed to mess up.

I wanted to cry on the journey home, I was so disappointed with myself. The feedback was on within a few hours the sameday I was interviewed and I did cry when I saw the scores.....

It was tears of joy! Lowest score was a 5, highest an 8, the rest in the middle. I was certain one of the competencies was going to be a 3 at best but strangely that one was one of my higher marks! The 5 was an improvement as I only got 4 in the original sift for that competency.
My marks might not be enough for me to be offered a position but I'm happy now that they are all above 4 and that I got higher marks in interview than sift.

Good luck to anyone who is yet to have their interview!

redsky1977

So it looks like we are in for a big wait to hear if we have new jobs. I'm going to leave this thread for a while until the news starts filtering through.
Good luck to everyone and enjoy the sunshine!:p

shaza246

Thanks for the kind gesture.