Puffwagon Puff Gold Donating Members 16,097 Member For: 10y 7d Gender: Male Location: South Australia Posted 02/07/21 03:51 AM Share Posted 02/07/21 03:51 AM Where's Rebecca Black when you need her?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,198 Member For: 16y 9m 26d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 02/07/21 03:54 AM Share Posted 02/07/21 03:54 AM indeed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRYME Member 313 Member For: 3y 11m 11d Posted 02/07/21 06:31 AM Share Posted 02/07/21 06:31 AM (edited) Hey guys/gals,, just thought I'd have my little rant being almost retired I was getting/still am to bored... so for first time in my life applied for a nsw govt PT job, applied back in February, interviewed in March, passed the compliance process in early April and still havnt received my letter of offer, emailed the hiring manager just to touch base she replied with " you should be receiving a letter of offer soon recruitment is backed up", well I can understand that but after this long it makes you feel like saying to hell with them... I cannot for the life of me understand how things can take so long....... I wonder how many good employees they have lost to private sector with recruitment taking so long Does anyone here have similar story/experience? Edited 02/07/21 06:32 AM by TRYME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,198 Member For: 16y 9m 26d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 02/07/21 06:33 AM Share Posted 02/07/21 06:33 AM pretty standard for GOV jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRYME Member 313 Member For: 3y 11m 11d Posted 02/07/21 06:38 AM Share Posted 02/07/21 06:38 AM Wow I knew it was slow but never knew that was the standard... so IF I start in July,, interview in FEB start JUL that's like a 6 month process... I was assuming like 3-4 month process,,, funny thing is In the interview they were very quick to ascertain how quick I could start and asking about my Notice period Etc hahah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,198 Member For: 16y 9m 26d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 02/07/21 06:40 AM Share Posted 02/07/21 06:40 AM yeah... well, I'm sure they have their reasons. ask @MattyP or @MBAF about the "hurry up and wait" sort of protocols for govt stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRYME Member 313 Member For: 3y 11m 11d Posted 02/07/21 06:47 AM Share Posted 02/07/21 06:47 AM Yea im Probably just to used to the private sector where everything needs to have been done yesterday attitude haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 10m 7d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 02/07/21 07:09 AM Share Posted 02/07/21 07:09 AM Man waiting near 6 months between interview and job offer is pretty messed up though. Even for a govt position. Imagine you have no job and you're sitting there, jobless, waiting for a response from them. That would suck. May I ask what the job is @TRYME? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Jeturbo Bob the Freaking Builder Donating Members 10,813 Member For: 15y 4m 23d Gender: Female Location: SA Posted 02/07/21 08:25 AM Share Posted 02/07/21 08:25 AM (edited) Yeah nah.... the process took maybe 3-4 weeks for interview - psychometric testing, blah blah to letter of offer.... then 4 weeks later I started. I mean government are slow but to be honest it’s 100% about the department/sector you’re in and the manager, my boss was keen as mustard to get me in the door so I was lucky maybe. Saying that my last job wasn’t much different either in government. Edited 02/07/21 08:26 AM by Mrs Jeturbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRYME Member 313 Member For: 3y 11m 11d Posted 02/07/21 09:48 AM Share Posted 02/07/21 09:48 AM Of course you can.... it's for an engineering assistant manager in NSW health..... I'm way overqualified for the job which I thought maybe an issue but turns out recruitment is just slow.... my brother in law is a security manager at nsw health and he has been waiting 5 months for guys he has employed to start spoke to him as I was getting paranoid and he said there's a big delay in the recruitment process but no clear explanation as to why...... Yea it does suck if I was jobless and needed money I'd be very upset mind you I knocked back a private industry job months ago but the way things panned out I should of taken it and seen how I went with that... Govt money is slightly more but it's just the flexible work arrangements which won me over it's 3 Day a week job and I can pick the days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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