manual assessment at Jag/Land Rover

booka121

Ill be suing them for my private heart transplant in the very near future. For the money they are making off jaguar their organisation and management is abysmal. Apparently their making 2k per person employed, across hale-wood and Birmingham that's roughly £4,000,000. Then there making money off every person, every hour that's worked. Lets be conservative and Say 50p per hour per person. Based on 40 hour weeks that £40,000 per week. Just off jag, with that much money coming in plus their thousands of other clients you'd think that they could employ some managers with half a brain in their skulls eh. F**K Manpower.

donone46

booka121 wrote: »

Ill be suing them for my private heart transplant in the very near future. For the money they are making off jaguar their organisation and management is abysmal. Apparently their making 2k per person employed, across hale-wood and Birmingham that's roughly £4,000,000. Then there making money off every person, every hour that's worked. Lets be conservative and Say 50p per hour per person. Based on 40 hour weeks that £40,000 per week. Just off jag, with that much money coming in plus their thousands of other clients you'd think that they could employ some managers with half a brain in their skulls eh. F**K Manpower.

Amen! Or at least 1 manager to implement a plan and keep us, who ultimately make them their millions by working (or at least trying too!!!) with/for them, happy!

It would be so simple to just say heres how many position we needed to fill, this is the amount filled, these are the people that passed all of our tests, this the order in which they passed (best to worse) then work your way down, from what I can see they've gone on first come first serve and hence they may (according to claims on here) be having issue with CRB checks etc.

Maybe I've over simplified what must be a pain in a**e to sort out but then again I don't claim to be able to arrange volume on site recruitment.

jazzylaz

donone46 wrote: »

jazzylaz do you mean your husband did the manual assessment and then the interview and re-did the online assessment or just the manual assessment?

If it's the latter to be honest I'd say it's just standard wording of an e-mail "we'll keep you in file" etc etc

No, he just did the manual assessment, I think it was the end of April, it was roughly about the time they stopped taking people forward to interview stage. I really think they did the first come first served theory, as discussed earlier on this thread. So there are definitely people on here that are further along in the process than my husband.

Never the less, my friend's nephew got a call over eight months after applying about a year ago, so I think they do follow through on what they say. No point in re advertising for positions when you have a perfectly good database in place already of suitable candidates. Hope this helps.

gavinh87

Thought i would join to add my contribution to this thread.
I applied and did the online test in November 2011 for Solihull. It took them until February for me to get the manual assessment and final interview. The man that interviewed me said i had walked it and told me to keep my phone close by (he said they go by a point scoring system on the interview paper and we have to score more than 16)

April had come and still no phone call, so i rang them only to be informed that all the positions have been filled but they would keep me on the shortlist.

Got a call last Tuesday asking if i am still interested in working for them but this time at castle bromwich jaguar I replied yes and got an email with a link to do another online test. I passed that and got a phone call to go to an interview tomorrow and do the online test in a controlled environment.

It is a bit of a pain in the !!! to get in it seems, but fear not there are still positions out there and they will get to you. I just hope its worth me giving up a full time job for.

donone46

gavinh87 wrote: »

Thought i would join to add my contribution to this thread.
I applied and did the online test in November 2011 for Solihull. It took them until February for me to get the manual assessment and final interview. The man that interviewed me said i had walked it and told me to keep my phone close by (he said they go by a point scoring system on the interview paper and we have to score more than 16)

April had come and still no phone call, so i rang them only to be informed that all the positions have been filled but they would keep me on the shortlist.

Got a call last Tuesday asking if i am still interested in working for them but this time at castle bromwich jaguar I replied yes and got an email with a link to do another online test. I passed that and got a phone call to go to an interview tomorrow and do the online test in a controlled environment.

It is a bit of a pain in the !!! to get in it seems, but fear not there are still positions out there and they will get to you. I just hope its worth me giving up a full time job for.

I'd say it's a coin toss gavinh87, I've heard them lay people off when the work dries up/backlog of orders are cleared but I know 2 people working there (JLR Halewood) whom have been put on permanent contracts after working as a 'temp' for manpower for 12 months.

Best of luck to you anyway matey!

gavinh87

Thats interesting to hear, thanks mate!

eddardstark_2

gavinh87 wrote: »

Thought i would join to add my contribution to this thread.
I applied and did the online test in November 2011 for Solihull. It took them until February for me to get the manual assessment and final interview. The man that interviewed me said i had walked it and told me to keep my phone close by (he said they go by a point scoring system on the interview paper and we have to score more than 16)

April had come and still no phone call, so i rang them only to be informed that all the positions have been filled but they would keep me on the shortlist.

Got a call last Tuesday asking if i am still interested in working for them but this time at castle bromwich jaguar I replied yes and got an email with a link to do another online test. I passed that and got a phone call to go to an interview tomorrow and do the online test in a controlled environment.

It is a bit of a pain in the !!! to get in it seems, but fear not there are still positions out there and they will get to you. I just hope its worth me giving up a full time job for.

Pretty much had the same story as you, expect I applied earlier this year. Had the phone call saying that they've filled the positions at Solihull, but they are taking people on at Castle Bromwich and I can go for that if I want. Got an interview next week, but lady on the phone said it won't be an interview per say, more of a chat. Can you expand on what you actually did?

gavinh87

Hello, I've literally just got back.
I had to do the online test again, more or less exactly the same as you do at home to be fair.
She's right its not much of an interview but i still went suited and booted anyway its more to just clarify all your paperwork you filled in at solihull is still correct.

I'll be honest I was disappointed, it was nothing like solihull. The manpower room was about the same size as a shed and i was taking the online test at the same time as another guy was being interviewed. Very off putting to say the least.

The pay was different as well, at solihull i was told £17 per hour. Here its £11.42 plus shift allowance which he said was about 50p per hour more. Also he said if you do get taken on after 2 years you will be on less than that. I expect this will cause friction between the full time lads because agency workers will be on more:eek:
Not that this is a bad rate by any means but I don't think im gonna leave my current stable job for this.

Sorry to put a dampener on but i was expecting more.

donone46

gavinh87 wrote: »

Hello, I've literally just got back.
I had to do the online test again, more or less exactly the same as you do at home to be fair.
She's right its not much of an interview but i still went suited and booted anyway its more to just clarify all your paperwork you filled in at solihull is still correct.

I'll be honest I was disappointed, it was nothing like solihull. The manpower room was about the same size as a shed and i was taking the online test at the same time as another guy was being interviewed. Very off putting to say the least.

The pay was different as well, at solihull i was told £17 per hour. Here its £11.42 plus shift allowance which he said was about 50p per hour more. Also he said if you do get taken on after 2 years you will be on less than that. I expect this will cause friction between the full time lads because agency workers will be on more:eek:
Not that this is a bad rate by any means but I don't think im gonna leave my current stable job for this.

Sorry to put a dampener on but i was expecting more.

Yeah tbh I only went for the job as I'd been looking after an ill relative for the passed few years and didn't want to go back into banking (albeit better paid) for the rest of my career.

I'd stick with what you've got, holiday pay, sick pay, rights if you get made redundant etc etc

eddardstark_2

gavinh87 wrote: »

Hello, I've literally just got back.
I had to do the online test again, more or less exactly the same as you do at home to be fair.
She's right its not much of an interview but i still went suited and booted anyway its more to just clarify all your paperwork you filled in at solihull is still correct.

I'll be honest I was disappointed, it was nothing like solihull. The manpower room was about the same size as a shed and i was taking the online test at the same time as another guy was being interviewed. Very off putting to say the least.

The pay was different as well, at solihull i was told £17 per hour. Here its £11.42 plus shift allowance which he said was about 50p per hour more. Also he said if you do get taken on after 2 years you will be on less than that. I expect this will cause friction between the full time lads because agency workers will be on more:eek:
Not that this is a bad rate by any means but I don't think im gonna leave my current stable job for this.

Sorry to put a dampener on but i was expecting more.

Ah that's ok then, thought I may have to do another interview. Solihull is £11.40 an hour, so this actually pays more. (I know someone who works there).

Hard to believe they pay more for agency? At Solihull the £11.40 is reached by full pay minus 20%, (£13.68 - 20%) which goes to Manpower.

For me I only work part time, so anything is better than what I currently do, plus this will hopefully be only a stopgap.