Civil service fast stream 2014/2015

Now, 'Awaiting Results' - not confident !

I felt the same about my policy exercise (AC on Feb 9th). I work for the NICS, and the guidance published alongside the embargo announcement contained an assurance that a fast stream merit list would be drawn up. However, that in itself does mean any candidate will get a job in September, or indeed at all - some general board lists remain active for 5-7 years!

Given the current push for redundancies in the NICS, I envisage no more than 1 or 2 posts being filled in September, with no NI Fast Stream running for the foreseeable future. This could mean that all candidates acheiving over a certain mark this year may be included in a ranked list for posts as they become available in succeeding years, post-redundancies.

Can you post here upon receiving any news from Parity?

So we're all itching to find out that we have merit, nothing more? lol it's sad that I'm still dying to know whether I've passed or not. All the lady from Parity would tell me was that we definitely won't get word in March and that we'll have to wait until mid-April. Do you reckon they will then decrease the number of places on this years stream to compensate?

You do get allowances for relevant post-graduate qualifications and years of prior experience. I am on the GSS stream and have received my offer letter etc. The base salary for all fast stream (analysts included) is £27,500 this year. I have been offered allowances for my Ph.D. and each year of my post-doctoral research. They are pretty generous, but I don't want to give specific figures in case there are differences between departments and streams.

In order to get the allowances approved my (soon to be) line manager had to make an application to the HR team giving evidence. The qualification/experience has to be relevant to the department (but not necessarily your immediate team) in order to qualify. Hope this is useful.

Just snapped and asked Parity when I might hear back--they said either 'either some time next week or mid-April'. Back to my dissertation for now, I reckon.

how'd you get on with coms?

I don't think I understand the Q--if you mean, how did I ask them, then they reply pretty speedily when you message them through the 'Contact Us' link

No I meant with your app to the coms service, haha.

Oh right! Yeah, I got rejected from that. I wrote my entire application in like ten minutes so it would have been a bit outrageous if I got through the sift..!

Can you apply to other streams when you've applied to the Communication stream?

No--we're talking about a separate 'Assistant / Government Communicator' job (or set of jobs) that was being advertised recently in Edinburgh Leeds and London on the Civil Service Jobs website. Maybe the fast stream scheme didn't get as many applications as they wanted.

Yep me and Triton submitted it on the deadline with quite literally a matter of seconds to spare - I can't speak for us both but I don't think either of us had high hopes for that application

Hi, this is my first post and I know I'm not in the correct forum however it's still regarding the civil services jobs. I'm aware that the civil service fast stream is for graduates, however I am applying for a undergraduate placement role and have a interview due. I think the application process differs from the the graduate-fast stream one as I have only till now had to complete an application with competency questions but I was wondering if anyone here is on the same boat/if they've previously applied for a placement as an undergraduate as I'd love to here any opinions/advice/experiences!

You might be better to start a thread asking this in the public sector forum, so that you have the best chances of the right people seeing it. Good luck!