Civil Service Direct Appointment Scheme 2019

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The first emails were sent out at the end of February, with some being as late as April.

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The email contains an Expression of Interest (EoI) and lets you know that there could be interest in hiring you through the DAS. You fill out the form with a preference of your location and start date.

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At this stage, your email will indicate whether it's an EO or HEO position you're being considered for. There will be an FAQ attached to the email. Whether you're offered an EO or HEO role seems to depend on your FSAC score. Some with scores between 9-10 were offered HEO roles. I'm not sure what the cutoff score was, it could depend on the department or scheme you applied for.

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There can be a wait up to 3-4 months to hear back once you've returned your EoI. Some people heard back within a month.

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Responses come back department by department, BEIS was the first last year, followed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), DEFRA, DExEU, Home Office, MoD. (I may have missed one or two, they are not in order of responses other than BEIS being first)

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You are contacted to let you know one or more of these departments are interested in you. It can take a month or so to be contacted by the department directly.

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Once contacted, you arrange an informal phone call to discuss your role and suitability. It seems this is a friendly call with no prior preparation required.

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Once offered a role, you go through the standard pre-employment checks. This can take 6-8 weeks. For some roles such as MoD, you may require a DV security check with can take 3-6 months.

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Start dates seemed to begin from June-July onwards.

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It seems that you don't need to have a score>2 for all competencies to be offered a role through the DAS. Paceyw1972 was offered an EO position with a score of 9.87 with 1 competency below 2.

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We have confirmation that departments have been contacted regarding taking on candidates through the DAS by -=|Jay|=-. (12/2/2019)

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We still don't know which departments will be hiring through the DAS but this shows the ball is rolling. Hopefully means we'll start hearing by the end of February like last year.

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And so it begins! Melodilicious has received an EoI email for an EO position with a FSAC score of 9.37 on February 22nd.

Their post contained the following information:

"So the post seems to be for an EO role, it said i did great at the fsac thats why theyre offering this. There will be no further formal recruitment process, you can just chat to a representative of the department they give to you which will only be tthe one.

On the form itself you have to list your holidays for the past 5 years, details of where you want to work and which departments you are interested in"

In a further post, they also shared:

"It also says that posts will not be offered to start past 31st of August. Pay grades will be between 24k and 28k depending on department, there will be additional london weighting as well to these salaries"

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If you haven't heard yet, don't worry, last year the EO offers went out first followed by HEO offers a few weeks later. Best of luck everyone!

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Department for International Trade HEOs: https://www.facebook.com/groups/600297263800380/

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Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy HEOs: https://www.facebook.com/groups/448418769304095/