What does this mean on a person spec?

elsien

I have a person specification for a role, and against the job spec criteria it has in brackets (A) (A,I) and (A,I,T).
I'm guessing that I is demonstrated at interview, T will be some sort of interview task so would the A be the shortlisting criteria? I'm a bit thrown because it has A next to absolutely everything on the personal attributes, experience, skills and knowledge, both desirable and essential.

PasturesNew

Googling says it's how the job criteria will be assessed:
• Application
• Interview
• Test

Which doesn't actually mean anything without that being explained

So you're no further forward until somebody "on the inside" explains it.... and what can be expected.

elsien

Looks like I'm whacking the whole lot in to be on the safe side then, whilst trying to put it in my own words. Off to check the word count before I get carried away.

elsien

Here's another one - "flexible attitude to supporting other members of the team."
That could mean pretty much anything - any suggestions?

jobbingmusician

Covering their shifts/days off/client load?

Callie22

Where I work it generally means that they want to see certain key words and phrases in your application, and if you don't use them, you won't get through. Best thing is to make sure that if they've used a certain word, you've used it too.

Undervalued

Callie22 wrote: »

Where I work it generally means that they want to see certain key words and phrases in your application, and if you don't use them, you won't get through. Best thing is to make sure that if they've used a certain word, you've used it too.

That is a really, really sad refection on the world we live in!

PasturesNew

elsien wrote: »

Here's another one - "flexible attitude to supporting other members of the team."
That could mean pretty much anything - any suggestions?

Will stay late at the drop of a hat and stay until work that somebody else should have done has been completed, even though it's not your job and you don't know that stuff ....... and stay until it's completed... and possibly not even be paid for this "free overtime".

Flexible ALWAYS means: we take the p155.

PasturesNew

Undervalued wrote: »

That is a really, really sad refection on the world we live in!

Very sad... but true

It's like a power trip ..... no, not like, it IS some weird cult-like power trip.

elsien

PasturesNew wrote: »

Will stay late at the drop of a hat and stay until work that somebody else should have done has been completed, even though it's not your job and you don't know that stuff ....... and stay until it's completed... and possibly not even be paid for this "free overtime".

Flexible ALWAYS means: we take the p155.

Cynic.
However I do agree flexibility has its limits, so if I get to interview I may have to drop the words work/life balance in to see what reaction I get. I don't do all the hours under the sun, learned the hard way.

Callie22

Undervalued wrote: »

That is a really, really sad refection on the world we live in!

It is. Where it work they use it as a filter as the initial applications aren't read by the people doing the hiring or the actual interviewing, so the first stage is literally a box-ticking exercise - does the application mention 'x', 'y' and 'z'? If it does it's through, if it doesn't it's out.

I fell foul of this myself when my manager encouraged me to apply for an internal role. My application was rejected at the 'filter' stage and when I asked for feedback I was told that the only reason I didn't get through to interview was because I hadn't said that I had experience of 'x'. It didn't matter that I had used a number of other words that meant exactly the same thing. I hadn't written 'x' so they couldn't tick the 'x' box and so my application was rejected.