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Yes, quite normal. At sift stage there can still be several hundred applicants, so each competency answer has to be read and scored and that takes time. Give it another week and chase again, but be aware they only generally reply if they have something to tell you.0
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Alice_Walker wrote: »Yes, quite normal. At sift stage there can still be several hundred applicants, so each competency answer has to be read and scored and that takes time. Give it another week and chase again, but be aware they only generally reply if they have something to tell you.
Oh, right. Just seems like they've had plenty of time. The application guide said they aimed to get back to candidates re whether they have passed the competency phase by early/mid August so it's been nearly 3 weeks.0 -
My personal experience of anything to do with CS HR is that they utterly incompetent. Wrong letters, or no letters, sent out to people. Take weeks or months to get back to staff queries, let alone queries from potential recruits.
When I was recruited my letter arrived nearly 4 months after interview, with a start date when I was on holiday (that information provided at time of interview). When I finally managed to get hold of them on the phone, I explained again that I would be on holiday and told them when I would be back. The numpty on the phone then suggested another start date - still in the period I had just told them I was on holiday!!!
Maybe I should have taken that as a warning about what working for the CS would be like.0 -
I wouldn't bother with any role in the CS stay well away.0
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I wouldn't bother with any role in the CS stay well away.
Yes, the quality pension, generous leave, flexible working, generous sick leave and good training are well worth ignoring......Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
Oh, right. Just seems like they've had plenty of time. The application guide said they aimed to get back to candidates re whether they have passed the competency phase by early/mid August so it's been nearly 3 weeks.
Firstly ypu are dealing through an intermediary (the agency), second this is the peak holiday time that could affect both organisations. Maybe give them some leeway?Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
Yes, the quality pension, generous leave, flexible working, generous sick leave and good training are well worth ignoring......
You mean the generous sick leave that everyone abuses, 10 days before a sickness investigation = 10 days extra leave.
Flexible working that means your colleagues doing nothing 7-9am then clock off at 3pm?
Add into the mix the well its not in my job description therefore I'm not doing it attitude with a dash of management who are seemingly transferred from post to post because the CS can't attract talent.0 -
Yes, the quality pension, generous leave, flexible working, generous sick leave and good training are well worth ignoring......
I do love a man with a sense of humour!
That may all have been true in the 'good old days' but certainly not true any more.
Contracts are being changes so people have to agree to work between 7:45 am and 8:00 pm, plus Saturdays. Go sick for more than a total of 8 days in a rolling year and discipliniary action will follow. In fact 4 x 1 day absence will have the same result. There was one case in the office where I worked where a manager actually went to the hospital to ask somebody when they would be returning to work (no urban myth that one!).
Training is a total joke. When I moved to a different benefit we were given 5 weeks training, down from 13 weeks a few years previously. Latest intake of people with no benefit processing experience got 3 weeks. Is it any wonder error and fraud has gone through the roof?
Annual leave is little more than the national minimum until you've been there 10 years.
Pension isn't great for most people. I know of people who had worked there 40 years and still couldn't afford to take early retirement. The pension may be gold plated for those at the top, but not those at the bottom.0 -
I do love a man with a sense of humour!
That may all have been true in the 'good old days' but certainly not true any more.
Contracts are being changes so people have to agree to work between 7:45 am and 8:00 pm, plus Saturdays. Go sick for more than a total of 8 days in a rolling year and discipliniary action will follow. There was one case in the office where I worked where a manager actually went to the hospital to ask somebody when they would be returning to work (no urban myth that one!).
Training is a total joke. When I moved to a different benefit we were given 5 weeks training, down from 13 weeks a few years previously. Latest intake of people with no benefit processing experience got 3 weeks. Is it any wonder error and fraud has gone through the roof?
Annual leave is little more than the national minimum until you've been there 10 years.
Pension isn't great for most people. I know of people who had worked there 40 years and still couldn't afford to take early retirement. The pension may be gold plated for those at the top, but not those at the bottom.
The thing that frustrated me the most was how the majority of staff just moved around various departments or were "lifers" no experience of working anywhere else because the CS just simply doesn't attract anyone talented. Those that are talented get bored or frustrated because ideas take so long to roll out.0 -
My personal experience of anything to do with CS HR is that they utterly incompetent. Wrong letters, or no letters, sent out to people. Take weeks or months to get back to staff queries, let alone queries from potential recruits.
When I was recruited my letter arrived nearly 4 months after interview, with a start date when I was on holiday (that information provided at time of interview). When I finally managed to get hold of them on the phone, I explained again that I would be on holiday and told them when I would be back. The numpty on the phone then suggested another start date - still in the period I had just told them I was on holiday!!!
Maybe I should have taken that as a warning about what working for the CS would be like.
Ridiculous, you could of got another job in that time therefore leaving them with noone.0
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