Civil Service Fast Stream 2016/2017

JustCharley can we be sneaky and ask what the questions were roughly?

So I've been waiting for an email telling me whether or not I passed the e-tray! I came on to student room to see if other people had heard (thinking "oh no I've probably been pooled" and saw a post above saying "I just logged on to see I passed". Deciding I'd do the same thing, I logged on to double check and found out (to my surprise might I add), that I had passed! Unfortunately, I really should have checked this quite a few days ago as I now only have three days to complete the interview -.-

tl;dr: log on to check because I never received an email telling me results had been released!

Congrats to everyone sitting video interviews, commiserations to those of you who aren't. I thought that the e-tray was incredibly, incredibly hard so imo there's absolutely no shame in not getting through - I wasn't expecting to at all!

I've just done my video interview!

It is competency based, with a strong emphasis on providing examples. I've already been working for two years so had a good bank of examples to use. I had them on a piece of paper next to me when I was doing the interview.

The interview itself is 8 questions, with roughly 2 mins per answer allowed. You get 15 second between being told the question, and then having to answer. You can take a short break between questions also.

If you get invited to the video interview, does it mean you passed the e-tray exercise? Or is it a case of each stage unlocking once the previous stage has been completed?

The phrasing on the application makes it sound as though you have passed but the phrasing in the FAQs makes it sound as though everyone gets a shot at the whole application.

Anyone else in a position of having passed the e-tray but still have the video interview locked? I know that this is normal but was hoping to have the interviews unlocked by now - have deadlines coming up and really wish I knew what to prioritise!

Anyone else in a position of having passed the e-tray but still have the video interview locked? I know that this is normal but was hoping to have the interviews unlocked by now - have deadlines coming up and really wish I knew what to prioritise!

Thank you for sharing that information,

I was just wondering could you kindly quantify how long 'the short break' is? Is it timed or do you have an indefinite amount of time without leaving the interview between Qs?

thanks in advance!

So it's very much a "give me an example of when you..." format? Did you feel there were any curve ball questions outside of examples from the work place? E.g. current affairs

Absolutely no curve balls at all. Just generic competency questions!