DWP Recruiting Again - 2012

tdiof

Formal offers went to some S Yorks folk last week. Exisiting CS here and still waiting. Probably the worst wait of all the waits as I'm anxious they've lost my paperwork or will withdraw or re-evaluate the required posts before they reach me on the merit list.

AT1983

Monkeyfish262 wrote: »

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.

Thanks for clearing that up ,Guess I am just waiting for them to work down the scores to me then

Radiofree

Got 3 references but still two more references required so checks are not cleared. Is it common? I believe they need the character checks and employment, age, nationality, checks. Why dwp is waiting for my college reference and internship reference? They have got university reference , character reference already. But it's not enough! Why?

Janabiyah-Jane

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 accepted 2 provisional offers and was put on the reserve list for one other... I also eventually received a provisional offer from this one too... I was contacted by my home district and had a formal offer and they also told me which offices the other districts would be offering me and which would I be accepting.. I accepted my home district as I was offered the office of my choice... Hope that makes sense lol

Janabiyah-Jane

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

Hi Rasty
had my formal offer last Thursday for Nottingham... I think if I remember you are in the lincs area and therefore will be contacted by someone from that area... I am sure it won't be long now... I scored 38 in interview..

Jade12

For anyone waiting on south London. I got the call today letting me know my start date and where I'm based. They then emailed me and I had to confirm my holiday. Start 2nd of July (I asked to start late as possible) holiday is on 18th...hoping this won't be a problem.
It has been a 4 week wait since accepting my provisional offer.
Hope those waiting hear soon.

fairy-girl

Radiofree wrote: »

Got 3 references but still two more references required so checks are not cleared. Is it common? I believe they need the character checks and employment, age, nationality, checks. Why dwp is waiting for my college reference and internship reference? They have got university reference , character reference already. But it's not enough! Why?

Hi Radiofree, are these additional references required relevant to the last 3 years? or are they older? Just wondering as I accepted prov offer on 19/4 and provided 2 refs both contacted but not heard a peep since. I have been self employed for 5 years and wondering now whether they will want to contact my last employer from 5+years ago.
I wish they would hurry up as this is getting beyond ridiculous.

Radiofree

fairy-girl wrote: »

Hi Radiofree, are these additional references required relevant to the last 3 years? or are they older? Just wondering as I accepted prov offer on 19/4 and provided 2 refs both contacted but not heard a peep since. I have been self employed for 5 years and wondering now whether they will want to contact my last employer from 5+years ago.
I wish they would hurry up as this is getting beyond ridiculous.

These are from last three years, anything I have been involved with and wrote on the form that covered three years, they contacted them without notifying me , I thought they will contact only two references which they asked on the " next stage" , apparently that's not enough.they got the third one And now I am running around and chasing people for the 2 morereferences.

csmw

Radiofree wrote: »

These are from last three years, anything I have been involved with and wrote on the form that covered three years, they contacted them without notifying me , I thought they will contact only two references which they asked on the " next stage" , apparently that's not enough.they got the third one And now I am running around and chasing people for the 2 morereferences.

Hi this happened to me too, my last role before my current job was with DWP, they told me they didnt have access to the info so still had to get a referance from my previous employer to them. In the end it took so long they accepted my contract and other info from the company. so Maybe if you had anythink like that it may speed up the process...hope this make sense way past my bedtime

avacado23

Monkeyfish262 wrote: »

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.

Hi there, thanks for the info. I am in a fix coz I got provisional from one and was put on reserve for one. Now, I had to accept my provisional as until then I did not even know how far down the reserve I was on the other. I recently found out I am no. 2 on reserve and was happy and hopeful but then got told that since I have accepted an offer from one region, I'll be removed from the reserve for all others. I think this is not right at all as this other area is so much easier to get to (and cheaper as I'll only need a bus pass) and the commute would be a lot less This is so worrying.

I know what you mean by knowing about Gloucestershire & West England first. If this region is slow, you'll also be in trouble as other areas may confirm your offer before you hear from them.