Impact (formerly NGDP) 2025 - Cohort 27

I did - but I requested it as soon as I received the result

Thanks, so did I, but not to be. I’ll leave it for now, out of interest, did you find your feedback useful or generic?

It was specific which was useful and I could definitely draw some things from it but I did find it a bit contradictory - ie saying the positives specific to one of my answers but then also using that same example answer in the ‘to improve’ section. I guess sometimes there are just better suited candidates and they have to put something on the feedback!

Any ideas why council's that were in the first round are also in the second round? Have they opened up another slot, or had multiple people pull out?

Officially got my contract and start date today!😁 For anyone who’s nervous about not having heard from their council yet: just a bit of reassurance that I’ve only just been sent my contract today but had my offer back in April and completed my pre-employment checks over a month ago! So don’t worry if you haven’t heard back just yet, the process can take a while! Hope everyone hears back soon!☺️

Curious that a lot of the 2nd round councils were only recruiting 1 person in the first round. Also still waiting on feedback from both my councils, it's going to be a tight squeeze to prepare! Are people choosing all councils as options or still being specific?

Hi, thanks for sharing! just curious that do you know how long your pre-employment checks take?

I'm not sure, I had wanted to change mine but was waiting for them to get in touch first...

My council called me to confirm my references and I was able to get it changed. But I wanted to know if they’d let me know when they email my refrees or if they just do it without telling us

I think generally businesses collect references and do it in their own time, so possibly just wait for next steps as I don't think they'll contact you again about references.

It may be different for everyone, but mine took 5 weeks to go through!