DWP Recruiting Again - 2012

agrinnall

Give it a rest will you, you pointless troll.

ButtonCow

Lorac05 wrote: »

Finally got through to the help line after 15 min of it ringing etc (thank goodness my plan covers 0845 numbers) and the lady told me that the 'application on hold' means that your application is actually going through the sift now i.e. 'being marked' - her screen - when she pulled my application up - said as much. She also said that people should start hearing from the week commencing the 20th Feb if you have passed onto the next stage!!

Thank you that is good news, at last something is happening:rotfl:

Esoog

silly me..........

quijibo

appalled12 wrote: »

Erazor, you give every indication that you are one of the more 'thinking' individuals on this forum (not to offend those who haven't participated in pejorative and childish responses to previous comments), however, to even imagine that the DWP require intellectual and competitive people to work within their organisation is profoundly unrealistic (but my guess is that you were being mischievous in making that comment!) This recruitment is exclusively designed to get the 18 to 24 year olds 'off the books', so to speak (with the odd exception in an endeavour to make things more authentic), because it is so topical and contentious a problem in our current climate and is yet another indicator of how targets and statistics are being manipulated.. Let's call it 'crowd control'!

Since there was no date-of-birth section on the application form, how will they know which applicants fall within this age bracket?

agrinnall

Having worked for 30 years in the private sector I know what use I was there. I'm now looking for a different challenge, which may or may not be in the public sector, at least I can bring something constructive to the job rather than the negativity that seems to be all you can spout. Oh, and if you're going to use my name, have the decency to spell it correctly.

mommarat

What I know of competancy marking is that you have to score 4 - 9 for each one. Get less than 4 marks for one comp you fail all of them. You will actually be marked on 6. The 5 in the application form and the other on comunication at the interview. It is a good idea to re-read the comps in your app form if anyone gets to interview it's better to know them inside out than reading from notes

mommarat

agrinnall wrote: »

Having worked for 30 years in the private sector I know what use I was there. I'm now looking for a different challenge, which may or may not be in the public sector, at least I can bring something constructive to the job rather than the negativity that seems to be all you can spout. Oh, and if you're going to use my name, have the decency to spell it correctly.

He spells your name wrong on purpose just to agrivate you he did it to me. Just don't rise to it it's not worth it.

[Deleted User]

mommarat wrote: »

What I know of competancy marking is that you have to score 4 - 9 for each one. Get less than 4 marks for one comp you fail all of them. You will actually be marked on 6. The 5 in the application form and the other on comunication at the interview. It is a good idea to re-read the comps in your app form if anyone gets to interview it's better to know them inside out than reading from notes

Will those who get through to the interview stage be expected to answer the questions with the same competencies used in the applications or would they be looked upon more favourably if they give different examples?

mommarat

Deleted_User wrote: »

Will those who get through to the interview stage be expected to answer the questions with the same competencies used in the applications or would they be looked upon more favourably if they give different examples?

When I went through this last time the interview was comp based rather than the app form. They asked tell me of a time when something went well and when something went badly so see how you respond. Because the comps were asked in the app form this time I expect all the interview questions to be about what they have already seen because that's what they have marked against and the interview is to see how you interview as that is probably what you will be doing. That said I think I am going to write another couple to take if I get an interview just in case.

mommarat

What's a national security number? I have a national insurance number or have I missed something