Civil Service Fast Stream 2009!

i have a friend from undergrad who's doing DAS. she graduated in 2006 and is now working in a whitehall dept (she applied for FS '08). they offered her a few positions which she turned because she wasn't too hot on them before she accepted her current job. she said that her advice for DASers is not to take the first job but to hold out for something that might jive a little more congruently with their interests (unless of course you hit gold straight off). she turned down two... it delayed her start until jan 2009 but she says that she was ultimately happier for holding out.

she got her first offer around mid-july 2008.

hopefully us FSers will hear by july too!

even though she said the first week of july was the outside she said that they'd hope to have it done before then, perhaps the last week of june.

i have a score of 17.9. when i called the cabinet office last week they told me that these were "high middle scores" and we should expect to be assigned by the first week of july. she added that all of the DS people dropping down to central depts after being unsuccessful at their FSBs means that there will be a delay. even though she said the first week of july was the outside she said that they'd hope to have it done before then, perhaps the last week of june.

i have a score of 17.9. when i called the cabinet office last week they told me that these were "high middle scores" and we should expect to be assigned by the first week of july. she added that all of the DS people dropping down to central depts after being unsuccessful at their FSBs means that there will be a delay. even though she said the first week of july was the outside she said that they'd hope to have it done before then, perhaps the last week of june.

Now to convincingly stick at it at my current work in anticiaption of the joy of handing in my notice.

Really? I have 17.92 and I was assigned over a month ago

No TiB published results just yet then...unless of course anyone out there has heard and I didn't. I really thought it was going to be today. On the one hand we do have the 'early June' timeframe, but on the other - as of tomorrow the 11th June event that Quady posted about will be less than two weeks away which makes me think they wouldn't want to leave it much longer otherwise it'll be very short notice. So hopefully tomorrow...

Just rang up and they said by the end of this week for TiB (keeping in mind that I was right at the beginning of the FSBs). Which is still vague enough that I will end up checking every half hour!!

Thanks for posting that Aylia - at least 'end of this week' puts it within 38 hours (as of writing this) for better or worse.

I've just got off the phone to the lovely lady from Parity who has informed me that she is expecting the TiB results later today. This means that we will have them tomorrow (she is aiming for the morning).