Applying for a new job while on probation?

TELLIT01

nicechap wrote: »

No wonder people have such employment problems when they believe things like this.

I had initially thought that the OP must be somebody newish to the work environment but, as they have been a member of the site since 2007, that is obviously not the case. I start to wonder now if the OP has been told this is possible by somebody where they work.

Yazmina

bradqwer wrote: »

Wel u do mention LA in the post above so we assume ur from there and this is something that would never happen in the UK so yea I kinda stand by my post sorry

unless u meant to type la la land n miss typed it

I think LA refers to Local Authority.

I think the OP should consider which job is best for his/her medium-long term career plans, then decide whether to apply for the fixed term job. I'd be surprised if your current employer would take you back after two years, unless you apply for a new role. Also if the fixed term job is two grades up why would you want to go back down to your old role anyway? You'll get used to the new level of responsibility and the money.

General_Grant

bradqwer wrote: »

Wel u do mention LA in the post above so we assume ur from there and this is something that would never happen in the UK so yea I kinda stand by my post sorry

unless u meant to type la la land n miss typed it

But in post #1 they spelled out Local Authority in full.

Mind you, seeing comments about Trinidad may have misled too.

Comms69

SummerSunshine2 wrote: »

@comms there is no such thing as unfair dismissal under two years

Yes there is, unlawful dismissal is automatically unfair dismissal.


BUT that isn't what I said - I simply stated a contract can provide contractual rights.


e.g. rights to a longer notice period.


Do try to keep up

HurdyGurdy

trinidadone wrote: »

I started a new job with a local authority, its a perm position, and i am currently in 2 months during a 6 months probation period. I have spotted a two year fixed term contract with a neighboring local authority. the second job is two grades above, thinking about applying, any thoughts?

trinidadone wrote: »

if successful i am hoping to be allowed to be released, and return to my substantial position after the fixed term has ended

trinidadone wrote: »

Your kind of right, so i am wanting my current employer to in affect release me for a fixed term, with the intention of returning, this is quite common in LA. The issue i have is, as mentioned in my first post, i am still on probation, and it is with a neighboring local authority, as appose to the same local authority. so to answer to your two durther questions, yes i would expect a employment agency worker, or someone to be taken on, on a fixed term whjile I am away

Nothing in your post makes sense!

You have been with your current local authority for two months, in a new job which you are currently learning, being two months into a six month probationary period.

You now feel you are a suitable candidate for a job (presumably a similar role to the one you are being trained for currently) in another local authority, but this role is two grades above the role you are currently learning.

You later explain that you want to apply for the new job for the two years of the fixed term contract, but then to return to your present employer once that contract is over.

Really? You want to leave a job you're not even fully trained in yet, go to a role in another local authority for two years, to become proficient in a role more senior to the one you are currently learning, and to then return to your present employer to the role you are not yet trained in?

You want to return to a role two grades lower than the one you're going to? Why would you do that?

Yes, it is quite common in local authorities (and presumably other employers) for people to take on a new role on secondment for a fixed term, and then return to their substantive role - but that's within the same local authority. I've never heard of it being done between two LAs.

I cannot imagine any employer being so bowled over by someone who has been in a role for two months, who hasn't completed their probationary period and hasn't been able to "prove themselves" in the role, that they are willing to put the probationary period on hold, wave you off to a new, more senior role with another employer, employ someone to do your job with them for the same term as your new job, and then take you back to complete your probationary period and employ you in the job two grades below the one you left them for.

TELLIT01

You've summed the entire situation up beautifully HurdyGurdy.