DWP Recruiting Again - 2012

Esoog

players1987 wrote: »

just a further update, I have spoken to one of the sifters, he has informed me that out of 15 applications today only 2 were successful. he believes the pass mark will be lowered as the other sifters are having the same problem, applicants have not understood the competencies properley and the layout in which they have been written is all wrong. I'm a bit sceptical about this as it's band C's doing the sift, I'm sure I've read in guidance that it has to be done by one Band D and one C. why am i not suprised lol

Well, hopefully that will get rid of some of the cheats and free up spaces for genuine applicants.

Erazor

Esoog wrote: »

Well, hopefully that will get rid of some of the cheats and free up spaces for genuine applicants.

If that's true, I'm loving itttt, I find it ironic how only 2/15 high scorers got through.

LookingForNipsy

players1987 wrote: »

just a further update, I have spoken to one of the sifters, he has informed me that out of 15 applications today only 2 were successful. he believes the pass mark will be lowered as the other sifters are having the same problem, applicants have not understood the competencies properley and the layout in which they have been written is all wrong.

Another problem of having the test after the competencies is you get an idea from the test the kind of things they are looking for and the kind of "speak" they want - I would have done my competencies a little differently if I'd done it after the test so that might have been the same for others.

ChishyChoshy

I'm a bit iffy about my competency answers, I went through point by point and addressed as much as I could but 200 words isn't a lot and there was some overlap. I was thrown a bit by how it said "using your experiences" at the top when in the past you had to use only one example/situation per question.

LookingForNipsy

Erazor wrote: »

If that's true, I'm loving itttt, I find it ironic how only 2/15 high scorers got through.

Its only ironic if people with lower scores do better than higher scorers when their competency statements are sifted

Erazor

LookingForNipsy wrote: »

Its only ironic if people with lower scores do better than higher scorers when their competency statements are sifted

I'm sure that will be the case now that they need to look for more candidates, but still you would expect lower scorers to fail but the 2/15 pass rate for people who scored between 80-100% is an awful... awful statistic lol.

LookingForNipsy

Erazor wrote: »

I'm sure that will be the case now that they need to look for more candidates, but still you would expect lower scorers to fail but the 2/15 pass rate for people who scored between 80-100% is an awful... awful statistic lol.

I don't see why it would be the case. Maybe its 3/15 for between 60-80% or maybe its 1/15, I wouldn't have expected such a low pass rate at all - clearly a lot of people didn't "get" the competency bit ...just hoping I did!

Erazor

LookingForNipsy wrote: »

...just hoping I did!

Me too, but I did download the form and work to the template that was listed there so I'm hopeful... but I'm not the one who marks these so meh.

Daedelus

I found the competency statements hard as the guidance seemed to be overlapping waffle. I did find that having written them, my wife pulling them to bits helped. Though it was a bit, this one will do for leadership, this for managing people etc..

I assume as there are large number of people marking them they will have a check list of words or phrases that win points. Whilst I was happy with my five little "stories", I suppose I should have done two different competencies for the different area I applied for. The second one as a more cynical "guess which word they are looking for" exercise

SophiT

Thanks for the help guys, interesting news about the sift in B&S...good luck everyone and here's to hoping we hear something back soon lol :-)