DWP Recruiting Again - 2012

avacado23

A question for applicants who applied for multiple locations----I am wondering if any of you was in my position i.e. provisional offer from one region and reserve on another. If you were in this position, did you accept the provisional and got told that you are now no longer on the other reserve. Is there anyone who got offered a provisional offer for the region that orginally put you on reserve after accepting your other provisional. If yes, were you able to change location. Any help would be very much appreciated.

crystalgenie

avacado23 wrote: »

A question for applicants who applied for multiple locations----I am wondering if any of you was in my position i.e. provisional offer from one region and reserve on another. If you were in this position, did you accept the provisional and got told that you are now no longer on the other reserve. Is there anyone who got offered a provisional offer for the region that orginally put you on reserve after accepting your other provisional. If yes, were you able to change location. Any help would be very much appreciated.

I was (am) in that position Avacado. I accepted the provisional offer but have had no communication re the reserve list for the other area at all. It still says "application on hold" when I go into the csjobs bit. So - I don't know whether I'm still on the list or not. That's all I know I'm afraid - sorry..

Xutl

I'm a multiple applicant who had provisional offers for both regions. I’ve not heard a thing from either region yet. I’d be quite nervous if there were reservists getting offers before I’ve heard! :-/

avacado23

Thanks Crystalgenie and Xutl, I hope you guys hear something soon. I'll keep everyone posted about myself.

Nana4u

I applied for four districts and had three provisional offers. Have been put on the reserve list for the district that interviewed me. I sent an email enquiring about my position and got a responds back advising me of being on joint first with several other applicants on the reserve list.

Was called last thursday by someone from the DWP who wanted more information regardig the crb application form. So fingers crosses. Hope this info helpsp

avacado23

Thanks Nana4u, can you pl let me know if at all you receive an offer from the district where you interviewed (the one that placed you on reserve). I am guessing you accepted all 3 provisional offers. Hope you receive further details such as start date, location etc soon. Good luck.

Monkeyfish262

crystalgenie wrote: »

I was (am) in that position Avacado. I accepted the provisional offer but have had no communication re the reserve list for the other area at all. It still says "application on hold" when I go into the csjobs bit. So - I don't know whether I'm still on the list or not. That's all I know I'm afraid - sorry..

Hey Crystalgenie & Avacado i may be able to shed some light on this, as i am an existing Civil Servant and went through all this a few years ago:

Unless you have been told you have a provisional offer for the other region then you are still on the reserve list.
"Application on hold" just means that because you are on the reserve list, your application is on hold unless a provsional offer becomes available for you in that region.
There will have been the same amount of provisional offers made for a region as there are jobs available, no more & no less.
So if you have been made provisional offer, then you pretty much have a job, subject to pre employment checks and whether you are happy with the location you get offered.
So if an applicant ahead of you is not happy with the location they have been offered or they fail the pre employment checks then they will be withdrawn and the person at the top of the reserve list shall be given a provisional offer.
As for accepting provisional offers, they are provisional both ways until you receive a formal offer and confirm that you want it, so if you get a provisional offer for another region which you prefer then you can accept that too.
From past experience of recruitment and what i have been informed they are working each region seperately and working down them in score order. So the highest score gets first pick of locations and so on.

The only i can't tell and am a little worried about, is i am an applicant who has applied for multiple regions too. I have 3 provisional offers at the moment, i did have 4 but turned one down as they were not my preferable region (Gloucestershire & West England). My worry is though, looking at all the posts of who has had confirmed offers so far it looks like they are working each region at a time rather than all at once. And i have not seen any mention of confirmed offers for Gloucestershire & West England yet, but the other 2 regions i can see are starting to inform people, i just worried that they are going to contact me first, because then i will need to choose wether to take what i'm offered or hold out for my region of preference. Where as ideally i'd like to hear about my Gloucestershire & West England first, because my acceptance of the other offices all really depends on what location i'm offered in Gloucestershire & West England first.

Rasty1985

Has anyone heard from the Lincs/Notts area ? i accepted my offer on 21/04/12 and still nothing . Every other area seems to be getting their offers and start dates . But me and my colleague are more than 5 weeks and waiting . We got 35 and 36

Monkeyfish262

AT1983 wrote: »

I got the same reply yesterday although they addressed the email to Nicole, wrong name and sex lol
Replied asking them to advise what checks were outstanding as I am an existing CS and my department hasn’t been contacted etc this seems to be a blanket response to anyone still awaiting a start date

Hey as you are already a civil servant, you are exempt from the checks, so your department shouldn't be contacted. You'll just be waiting for them to reach you in the list.

Each applicant is contacted in score order, so if the people who scored more than you are not civil servants already, then you have to wait for their employment checks to be carried out and for them to be contacted regarding their position before they contact you.

If you have seen anyone post to say they have a had a formal offer for your region, i imagine i shan't be very long till you get your phone call too.
Good luck and i hope you get the location you want.

Monkeyfish262

Rasty1985 wrote: »

Has anyone heard from the Lincs/Notts area ? i accepted my offer on 21/04/12 and still nothing . Every other area seems to be getting their offers and start dates . But me and my colleague are more than 5 weeks and waiting . We got 35 and 36

I was on the reserve list for nottinghamshire and lincs until last week, when they made me a provisional offer, which suggests that there is movement with the offers in that region, so i imagine you hear something shortly.