BBC Extend application - not sure how to answer "flexible working" question!
Hello wise and knowledgeable people!
Long shot but I was wondering if anyone here has knowledge/experience with applying for jobs at the BBC? I will be putting in an application imminently, for a role with the BBC Extend scheme. (Mainly just for the experience/to see if I can get interview practice - I doubt I'd actually get the job, and that's fine!) The role is full-time but (it being a job with the BBC Extend scheme, which is the BBC's disabled applicants-only employment scheme) there is a question on the application form about whether I'd like to discuss flexible working and ideas regarding that.
I am not sure how to answer that question, or what "flexible working" may refer to here. Due to having regularly medical appointments and wanting to start low-cost therapy soon, a three-day or four-day working week (ideally 21 hours or 28 hours, rather than than 35. I'm not sure if/how compressed hours would work, with my disability) would be more ideal than working full-time. However, as it's advertised as a full-time role, I'm not sure whether it's OK to say that when answering this question about flexible working?
Applications close on Weds 29th Jan (time unspecified, so I assume that means send in Tues night latest!), so there's not much time for me to contact BBC HR to ask for advice. It's a job I'd like but I don't think there's realistic chance of me being offered it, regardless of what I put for the flexible working question - but it'd be cool to be interviewed for this BBC role, so I wanna give myself as good a chance as possible.
Thanks in advance for any honest thoughts and advice!
Long shot but I was wondering if anyone here has knowledge/experience with applying for jobs at the BBC? I will be putting in an application imminently, for a role with the BBC Extend scheme. (Mainly just for the experience/to see if I can get interview practice - I doubt I'd actually get the job, and that's fine!) The role is full-time but (it being a job with the BBC Extend scheme, which is the BBC's disabled applicants-only employment scheme) there is a question on the application form about whether I'd like to discuss flexible working and ideas regarding that.
I am not sure how to answer that question, or what "flexible working" may refer to here. Due to having regularly medical appointments and wanting to start low-cost therapy soon, a three-day or four-day working week (ideally 21 hours or 28 hours, rather than than 35. I'm not sure if/how compressed hours would work, with my disability) would be more ideal than working full-time. However, as it's advertised as a full-time role, I'm not sure whether it's OK to say that when answering this question about flexible working?
Applications close on Weds 29th Jan (time unspecified, so I assume that means send in Tues night latest!), so there's not much time for me to contact BBC HR to ask for advice. It's a job I'd like but I don't think there's realistic chance of me being offered it, regardless of what I put for the flexible working question - but it'd be cool to be interviewed for this BBC role, so I wanna give myself as good a chance as possible.
Thanks in advance for any honest thoughts and advice!
Reply 1
In my experience of requiring flexible working (for caring responsibilities rather than disability) it’s better to get a job offer and then start a conversation about flexible working options when deciding whether to accept the offer or not.
I would like to say that it should be ok given the fact this is part of their recruitment for disabled people but it seems too early in the process to me. At interview stage the question in the interviewer’s heads should be “is this the best candidate for this job” and not any additional questions about whether the practicalities of working hours/working location/conditions are going to be workable or not.
I would like to say that it should be ok given the fact this is part of their recruitment for disabled people but it seems too early in the process to me. At interview stage the question in the interviewer’s heads should be “is this the best candidate for this job” and not any additional questions about whether the practicalities of working hours/working location/conditions are going to be workable or not.
Reply 2
Thanks, PQ! 
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