The recruitment process
We're totally committed to the principles of equal opportunity and factors like age, gender, race, sexual orientation and physical ability don't come into our recruitment or promotion decisions - our opinion of you is always based on your skills, your potential and your achievements.
The application process consists of the following stages:
01
January (w/c 25th) - March 2010 (Friday 26th)
Stage 1 Application Form
Eligibility questions
Qualifications & Experience
Competency based questions
02
April 2010 (w/c 19th)
We will contact you at some point during w/c 19th April to let you know if you have been successful at this stage.
03
April (w/c 26th) - May 2010 (w/c 3rd)
Stage 2 On-line Testing
04
May 2010 (w/c 10th)
We will contact you at some point during w/c 10th May to let you know if you have been successful at this stage.
05
May 2010 (w/c 24th and 31st)
Stage 3 Telephone Interview
06
June 2010 (w/c 7th)
We will contact you at some point during w/c 7th June to let you know if you have been successful at this stage. If successful, you will be invited to attend one of our assessment centres.
07
June (w/c 21st and w/c 28th) - July 2010 (w/c 5th)
Stage 3 Assessment Centre
Interactive exercises and psychometric tests
08
July - August 2010
We contact you to let you know if a provisional offer (subject to pre-appointment checks) on the scheme will be made to you.
This may involve letting you know you have been shortlisted, before confirming whether or not there is a place for you. However, all offers (subject to references and security checks) will be made by early August.
09
August to September 2010
Reference and security checks, where required, take place.
10
August/September 2010
You join your department and the real work begins!
If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made at any stage of this process due to a disability, please make this clear on your application form in the relevant section. We do require that you make us aware of this as early as possible in the recruitment process so that we can make the necessary arrangements for you at subsequent stages, should you be invited to these.
