HM treasury Policy Advisor Grad Scheme

I believe that to be the case... I'm just about to take the situational judgement test now - feeling prepped and ready! Any last minute words of encouragement (or cheeky hints for suggestions? )

I applied for another post via the CS Fast Stream a couple of months ago... Having completed the initial online test, I was immediately sent another to complete within 5 days, but I'm almost certain that I wasn't informed whether or not I'd actually passed the test I'd just completed. Having completed the second one, I received an email within a few days informing me that I hadn't been successful, but at no point did the email specify whether I'd failed on the first online test, the second one, or both... So it does seem a bit strange.... Does anyone have a more concrete understanding than me of what's going on...?

Hey guys I have an offer for Social Policy at LSE, do you think this degree would put me in a good position to apply to the HM treasury Policy Advisor Grad Scheme?

I don't think they look at what degree or uni it is, as long as you get a 2:1. Tbh they'll be more interested in your extracurriculars. Well done on getting an offer

I don't think they look at what degree or uni it is, as long as you get a 2:1. Tbh they'll be more interested in your extracurriculars. Well done on getting an offer

They don't ask for any information about your extra curriculars on the application form (something that surprised me), so I am pretty sure even that is not important.

Anybody taken the test yet? I just took the situational one and got an email asking me to take the verbal and numerical one.

It says I now have to wait up to five days to be sent a link :/

Applications opened today

http://www.hmtreasurycareers.com/apply

Just completed my application, anyone else applying?

So if university and degree choice aren't important, and extra-curriculars aren't important, then what is?

Did your email specifically say numerical and verbal? Mine said:

"Thank you for completing the Situational Judgement Test. We will be in contact shortly with details regarding the next stage of the recruitment process."

But that was as soon as I'd submitted my SJT responses

So if university and degree choice aren't important, and extra-curriculars aren't important, then what is?

Anybody had an invite to the take the numerical and verbal tests yet?

"Thank you for completing the Situational JudgementTest. We would like to invite you tocomplete the next stage of the recruitment process which is an online verbaland numerical reasoning test.<br /><br />You will receive an invitation email from ourtest provider SHL. If you do not receive an email from them within 5 workingdays then please contact the HM Treasury"

I e-mailed them today asking when I could expect the link because the original e-mail (the one you've quoted above) makes it seem as though that will be the case. this was their reply:

The email you have received mentioned that you pass the situational judgement test which means that it was successfully submitted and we have received your results safely. Once all candidates completed the test, results will be evaluated and successful candidates will be invited to complete verbal and numerical test. We have not sent a link to complete verbal and numerical test to any candidates yet.

If you are successful at the situational judgement test we will send you a separate email to invite you to complete the verbal and numerical test.

I then replied with this:

If I have not yet been successful why does the email say 'we would like to invite you to the next stage of the recruitment process'.

I'm sorry if I have misunderstood but I'm just clarifying as this led me to assume that I will receive an invitation email from SHL because that's what the email clearly states.

Which they then replied to with this:


This was an automated email released form our system. We agree that it is a bit confusing and we do apologise for this.

We wanted to confirm that candidates will be progressed to the verbal and numerical reasoning test if they are successful at the Situational Judgement test.
We will be in touch with you to let you know the outcome of your Situational Judgement test as soon as we can.

Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Kind regards
The Recruitment Team

It's such a badly worded e-mail. It gives you the impression you've passed the SJT when actually it's just a 'thank you for taking it' email.

Thank you so much for taking the time to email them about this. I completely agree! It's incredibly badly worded and suggests that you've already passed.

There will be a lot of disappointed people I presume when they hear they've not passed but were informed otherwise by the email.

Very poor quality from the treasury! Looking for strong candidates but can't even get emails right.