At every landing on the way up, there's the bottom of another set of stairs...

I have just had a long and useful chat with one of our team who has already survived the job applications process at a higher grade and who volunteered to read and give feedback on the ‘evidence’ we have to assemble for our forms.

It was a very useful chat and brought out a number of points that I now have to try and integrate as much of this input as possible to ensure that my application is as good as I can make it.

I confess that I am heartily sick of the process and simply wish to see it ended, now. Nonetheless, I have given myself plenty of time to adapt and redraft what I already have, so I can continue to feel optimistic and there are no reasons to panic. I just need to grit my teeth and set about redrafting chunks of my application.

It could be worse, I could work for Shropshire Council, who have just sacked 6,500 staff effective from 30 September, with the promise that they will rehire them on 1 October at 5% lower pay rates. I’m not sure about the legality of that, but the irony is that if the staff stood together and said ‘bring it on’, the council wouldn’t be able to deliver a single statutory service and it would probably cost them more than the money they are trying to save back filling all the posts. Sadly, the reality is that most people will look at their mortgages etc and just lie back and think of England.

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/07/05/dismissal-letters-sent-to-6500-shropshire-council-staff/

At every landing on the way up, there's the bottom of another set of stairs...

I have just had a long and useful chat with one of our team who has already survived the job applications process at a higher grade and who volunteered to read and give feedback on the ‘evidence’ we have to assemble for our forms.

It was a very useful chat and brought out a number of points that I now have to try and integrate as much of this input as possible to ensure that my application is as good as I can make it.

I confess that I am heartily sick of the process and simply wish to see it ended, now. Nonetheless, I have given myself plenty of time to adapt and redraft what I already have, so I can continue to feel optimistic and there are no reasons to panic. I just need to grit my teeth and set about redrafting chunks of my application.

It could be worse, I could work for Shropshire Council, who have just sacked 6,500 staff effective from 30 September, with the promise that they will rehire them on 1 October at 5% lower pay rates. I’m not sure about the legality of that, but the irony is that if the staff stood together and said ‘bring it on’, the council wouldn’t be able to deliver a single statutory service and it would probably cost them more than the money they are trying to save back filling all the posts. Sadly, the reality is that most people will look at their mortgages etc and just lie back and think of England.

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/07/05/dismissal-letters-sent-to-6500-shropshire-council-staff/