NHS Scientist Training Programme 2016 applicants!

Ever thought about sales? Scientific of course. As far as I know you basically have to have great people/networking skills to talk to people about their work and provide them with your products/solutions.

Interviews are in April we should be hearing back soon!
Does anyone know when?

I guess that is part of what they are looking for though. Given the word limits, people will choose different ways of writing which will tell them a lot about how we are suited to the role, and how concise we can be. Writing to a word limit is a skill we should have as scientists, especially if we have considered academic careers

It's a really terrifying amount of time to wait though, and the fact that I will have less than a month to organise travel/hotel etc for Birmingham if I do get an interview is stressing me out!

Does anyone know if you are tied to a job within the specific NHS trust you get the position at after you finish the 3 years, or whether you can go and get a job in any NHS hospital afterwards?

We're supposed to hear back from the 21st March onwards.

Do we actually learn what our shortlisting scores are even if we don't gain enough to get an interview?

Direct entry people, does anyone remember what time you found out about the online tests the day after your deadline?
It was the in-service deadline yesterday, and we haven't heard anything yet!

We found out on the 18th February, after submitting by the 12th. Do you guys go straight to interview if you do well on the tests? (I remember there was a difference between ours, but couldn't recall what!)

Obviously it's jumping the gun a lot as I may well not (probably won't!!) get to the interview stages, but I was just wondered if there is anyone on here that is in their second (or more) year of applying? I just wondered what kind of experience people had had at the interviews and what kind of questions are asked at the different stages. Are the specialism questions REALLY specific or are they the kind of thing you could make an educated guess at?? Just thought I'd get these questions in as it'll probably get lost in the flood of successful unsuccessful messages!

p.s. applied for cardiac and genomics

I wouldn't count on getting tips about the interview. You (and everyone who is reading this forum) is competition after all. And there is always the issue of the ''unfair advantage'' etc.. From what I manged to find out from some people who got into stp is that the specialism questions will be basic but specific. e.g. for genomics you might get a question about sequencing platforms and for cardiac they could ask you e.g. about an echocardiogram, so you need to have some background knowledge.
For general science question apparently it can be anything, even to comment on a fragment of a pseudoscientific article, so you cannot really prepare for that.

They are pretty difficult to find, luckily the trust I'm working at currently has had a few band 5 BMS posts come up so I missed out on them in my department but I'm moving over to immunology! I have accepted the post but still waiting to see if I get an interview for STP, it would be a quicker route up the ladder!

Wow, so you're gonna be a Trainee BMS in Immunology? That really is gold dust! Immunology is hard to get into, I've tried! I've just started a Trainee post in Blood Sciences (Haematology, Biochemistry & Blood Transfusion), but am still holding out for STP in Immunology with Haem & BT as my second choice. Did you apply for the same specialisms last year as you have this year?

Looking at last years thread, they seem to have found out the Wednesday after shortlisting closed, if thats anything to go by, we should be finding out today