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The I Feel Down Topic.

Came here to say similar to Rob666.
If you can, find out who's doing the sifting and interviewing and have an informal chat with them. It shows willing, and also means your name will be their mind as "that nice intelligent Matt N" when they are looking though CVs. They will still treat you and the other candidates fairly, but humans are humans and it's part of the CS game.
 
Now this is interesting… as my current line manager said that she would be unable to personally help me with my actual application due to almost certainly being on the panel. So there will likely be at least one person I know well on it!

The other name vaguely mentioned as a likely panel member when I chatted to my line manager and Grade 7 was also someone who I know and have interacted with at work. They attend some of our team catchups, are coming to an away day on Wednesday, and I chatted with them just the other day about something!

I’m not sure who the 3rd person will be, but my line manager tried to reassure me when I spoke to her about applying by saying “There will be people you know on the panel”.
 
...and I know an absent thoosie who used to hang around on here who is always banging on about recruitment and retention Matt.

You will be fine.
 
rob666 said:
...and I know an absent thoosie who used to hang around on here who is always banging on about recruitment and retention Matt.

You will be fine.
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I keep reading about how terrible the job market is and how no one my age is securing a permanent job at the moment, which probably doesn’t help my nerves. If this person is banging on about how getting people is hard, I’ll admit that that surprises me!

I do wonder, perhaps naively, if it might play into my favour in terms of applicant pool that my role is not something specific to the civil service and also has a more specific technical skillset (mainly programming and a little bit of data/statistics knowledge) involved with it as opposed to being something slightly broader in skillset that is more specific to the civil service (e.g. a policy role).
 
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