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Reply 1980

We were told today that they'll email all at the end of the month or even early May (cos of all the holidays coming).

Cool, I wasn't shortlisted (though I know I made the reserve lists - somehow that seems worse?) but I know they've made their decisions in the disciplines that interviewed last week!

Reply 1981

Emily996

Original post by VENIVIDIVICI

Good luck for Wednesday. I met a guy today who interviewed for vascular science and also have a audiology assessment centre on Wednesday. He'll definitely have an advantage on the stations not directly linked to a specialism questions...

Today was really tough! :mad:

and we were told that we (vascular science) are only interviewing for 11 posts....only 11 nationally! Thats crap.

Thank you! I'm so scared! I may have to try and befriend this guy and ask some sneaky questions :wink:

Eeep, well I'm sure if you found it hard everyone else did too. That does sound like quite a small number but someone's got to be in that 11 and could just as easily be you :smile:

I think the audiology intake is fairly small too.. but I'm trying not to think about that too much! Good luck!

Reply 1982

triwka

Original post by VENIVIDIVICI

and we were told that we (vascular science) are only interviewing for 11 posts....only 11 nationally! Thats crap.

If that makes you feel better, clinical engineering only had 7 posts nationally :biggrin:

(well, in England that is)

Original post by krazykipper

Cool, I wasn't shortlisted (though I know I made the reserve lists - somehow that seems worse?) but I know they've made their decisions in the disciplines that interviewed last week!

How have you managed to find this out?

Reply 1983

Emily996

I was wondering..
In the blurb it says each station will ask two questions and will last 10 minutes (I think).. So should each answer last 5 minutes or will each question be comprised of a few mini questions? I probably wouldn't have any trouble talking for this long, as I'm a bit of a rambler, but I've been told the general rule of thumb for interviews is 2 mins max? Would anyone who's already had their interview be able to shed a little light on the matter? (I don't want to over or under talk!)

Reply 1984

triwka

Original post by Emily996

There aren't 2 questions, there are two interviewers at each station :wink:

Reply 1985

krazykipper

Original post by triwka

How have you managed to find this out?

Spend a lot of time in NHS labs. Makes it easy.

Reply 1986

VENIVIDIVICI

Original post by Emily996

They could ask any amount of questions per station..it all depends on your replies and they may prod on some answers if they want more info. Anyway, I finished under 10 mins on two of my stations and went right to the end on the others....

Good luck and hope you get through...I'm glad mine is over...I even had a dream about it all last night!

Reply 1987

triwka

Original post by krazykipper

Spend a lot of time in NHS labs. Makes it easy.

oh ok, then I guess I have to endure another week of waiting! :redface:

Reply 1988

plym27

Hello everyone,

Do the trainee clinical scientist posts (healthcare scientist) turn up once every year?

Reply 1989

Panthea

Hi everyone,

Well I just got back from my interview...MAN that was intense!! I fail to see how I even got an interview as there were so many talented people there with way more relevant experience and qualifications than me. Don't rate my chances of a job! But it's been a good experience :redface:

At least we have the Easter break to enjoy while we all wait for the outcome! :tongue:

Reply 1990

mateyface

Original post by Panthea

At least we have the Easter break to enjoy while we all wait for the outcome! :tongue:

You're not alone! I felt I had little hope of getting in after the interview too. Everyone seemed to have done at least a masters and I felt I came across as pretty clueless in the interview. But, hey, maybe they will want someone like me for reasons I cannot fathom, maybe the people who seemed confident and experienced said something more stupid than anything I said. There's no way to know until they get back to us so just try to forget about it enough to not worry but still check your emails every day :P

Reply 1991

blue_tonic

Original post by laura22

Got the Scotland job in medical physics! Woo! So glad my risk of not going to all the Interviews paid off! :smile:

Just been catching up on this thread...congratulations Laura! You must be very excited! :biggrin:

Reply 1992

GraduateSK

I know a medical physics person who wanted to find out the outcome because he has a job offer somewhere else and they turned around and said people wont hear until end of May! As you can expect, he wasn't happy!

Reply 1993

peeps86

Argh back from assessment centre...argh! I messed up so bad on one particular station -it was my first one and i was sooo nervous that i misunderstood the question...the real answer dawned on me as i was waiting for the next station. Guess thats me out :frown:

Supposively 800 ppl are being shortlisted to 200 posts so thats one in four chance peeps!

Reply 1994

VENIVIDIVICI

Original post by plym27

Hello everyone,

Do the trainee clinical scientist posts (healthcare scientist) turn up once every year?

Yes, so we'll be back doing this again next year Feb.

Reply 1995

VENIVIDIVICI

Original post by peeps86

Supposively 800 ppl are being shortlisted to 200 posts so thats one in four chance peeps!

Crazy hey..its less than 200 more like 167 (this recruitment drive) and 25 (in-service route).

Some of my questions and answers are playing back in my mind even though its been a day ago....especially the questions I struggled with.

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 1996

triwka

Original post by GraduateSK

I hope you're not serious :frown:

I have another offer (for a general Graduate Scheme which I'm not overly keen on joining) and I've managed to negotiate for them to wait for my answer till end of April (as this is when NHS were supposed to get back to people)! And now it's suddenly MAY? :eek:

Well, I still hope people will start hearing back in weeks time! :s-smilie:

Reply 1997

VENIVIDIVICI

Original post by triwka

I hope you're not serious :frown:

Well, I still hope people will start hearing back in weeks time! :s-smilie:

It all depends how quickly they can get the admin sorted...they told us yesterday that with all the holidays coming up and people going away etc. that they'll try for the 28th April, BUT it may be that we'll have to wait til beginning of May.

Reply 1998

Panthea

Original post by peeps86

Supposively 800 ppl are being shortlisted to 200 posts so thats one in four chance peeps!

Ooh, hello! Our paths may have crossed this very day! :tongue:

It was scary wasn't it?! I keep thinking about it, wondering what I did well and what I did not so well...argh! I wonder which station you struggled with..? I'm aching to discuss things but as Venividivici said we might all be back on here next year and I don't want to give new applicants an advantage :colondollar:

Good luck anyway! x

Reply 1999

dsmtrst

Original post by Panthea

I'm aching to discuss things but as Venividivici said we might all be back on here next year and I don't want to give new applicants an advantage :colondollar:

I didn't think of this! Even after all interviews are over maybe we should keep quiet in case we are back next year.