UK Border Force

Had mine on Friday, was for the border officer job @ Heathrow. I'm pretty confident I won't get it as the competency based part of the interview didn't go great, not bad, but just not good enough I reckon. Good luck to anyone going next week, I really dislike doing presentations but this really isn't anything to worry about and the interviewers are nice.

Those of you who have had interviews, were they for the border officer or assistant border officer role?

And those of you with interviews coming up which role is it for?

Just trying to figure out if interviews are still running for both roles or if one or the other roles interviews have now been completed and the next role is now being interviewed for.

1, It's neither one nor the other really. You get given a brief and 3 possible scenarios and you have 15 minutes to prepare answers to how you would handle them. You then 'present' those answers to the 'role play' scenarios. So you don't interact with anyone else as you would in a role play and it isn't a case of reading a bunch of factual information on one topic and then presenting it.

2, The bit in bold is exactly how I was thinking and once I got the first part out of the way (which I felt went pretty well) I was confident, I knew them off by heart and had a back up for each one but I was only asked 3, 2 were probably my weakest ones and they interrupted quite a lot during those 2 and I ended up giving 3 examples to fill different parts of one competency as I guess they weren't completely satisfied I'd demonstrated what they were looking for.

They said what I was saying was good but obviously they were looking for more. At the end of the day they were doing it to help, I was able to give other examples and when I asked at the end they did say it didn't matter that I'd used a few different examples for one competency. Like I said it didn't go badly and tbh short of outright lieing I couldn't of done anything else but ultimately I don't think it went well enough to warrant them offering me a job

Good luck for next week

1, It's neither one nor the other really. You get given a brief and 3 possible scenarios and you have 15 minutes to prepare answers to how you would handle them. You then 'present' those answers to the 'role play' scenarios. So you don't interact with anyone else as you would in a role play and it isn't a case of reading a bunch of factual information on one topic and then presenting it.

2, The bit in bold is exactly how I was thinking and once I got the first part out of the way (which I felt went pretty well) I was confident, I knew them off by heart and had a back up for each one but I was only asked 3, 2 were probably my weakest ones and they interrupted quite a lot during those 2 and I ended up giving 3 examples to fill different parts of one competency as I guess they weren't completely satisfied I'd demonstrated what they were looking for.

They said what I was saying was good but obviously they were looking for more. At the end of the day they were doing it to help, I was able to give other examples and when I asked at the end they did say it didn't matter that I'd used a few different examples for one competency. Like I said it didn't go badly and tbh short of outright lieing I couldn't of done anything else but ultimately I don't think it went well enough to warrant them offering me a job

Good luck for next week

Thanks for the info! sometimes when they grill you a bit it's a good sign so don't count yourself out just yet!

One of the recruitment girls, I think her name was Jenna (quite attractive) said they are interviewing 1000 applicants, but she wasn't sure how many positions they are.

Anybody else applied for the Asylum Case Worker role? I've just been invited to take the two online tests!

same, what location did you apply for?

boarder force is racist.

I didn't put a preference, how about yourself?

London Bridge =) I should have put no preference as well though.

Well I had mine today and all I had was 15mins to read a role scenario, giving details of problems you are facing. This together with a competency interview was done after it.

There were alot of stuff which didn't make sense to me, I was expecting a presentation, the pay was different to what I had seen when applying for the job, plus the description was different.

From the amount of documentation which is taken, I am thinking, they are offering the jobs like sweets.

There are 400 more jobs coming up in the next couple weeks, for the Border Force thingy

Anybody else applied for the Asylum Case Worker role? I've just been invited to take the two online tests!

I too took the tests last week but have not heard. Do you know whether they sifted through the applications before the online tests?

Hi
what kind of online test? Can any body tell me what kind of question are there with example? thank you.