More Assessment
Follow-up to Assessment from Group IV
Well, I got through the eTray thing, apparantly my people skills are relatively strong compared to my handling of information, which is stronger in turn than my self-development skills. Which is a curious analysis, but there we go :-)
I went down to London for an open day on Thursday, which was very interesting since it was the first time that I really got a good handle on what kinds of things Faststreamers end up doing in the civil service. I’d already tried to find out what I could, but there’s no substitute for talking to the people doing the job. It certainly confirmed what the bumpf says – you can’t really predict what you’d end up doing, but they’re all interesting, challenging roles. Apparantly if they want a faststream person in a position, that position needs to be very well defined and specified before they can make the request, so it tends to be well defined roles that get approved. Which is cool.
Next stop assessment centre. Being govermental, it has its very own acronym FSAC, and it’s the same building where I went for the open day. 7:45 – 18:00 though!
Bring it on.
January 28th, 2005 at 23:36
COMMENT:
Thanks for your original article, which I read before going to my Etray on the Tues 18th Jan. They seemed to have made you wait a bit, 10th Dec to 22nd Jan, that kind of wait would have had me climbing the walls.
I had mine on the Tuesday and got told I’d passed on the Thursday 21st and date for FSAC on the Friday 22nd. It’s strange, we were told at the centre that it would take a month for the results.
Good Luck at your FSAC.
Cheers
Fish
January 29th, 2005 at 09:57
Actually, they let me know at the beginning of Jan – the 9th I think. I only got around to blogging about it once I’d been to the Open Day.
Not yet stressed about the FSAC, although it is rapidly approaching :-)
January 29th, 2005 at 10:50
Mines in two week, so quite looking forward to it and the drinking afterwards.
Good Luck with yours.
Fish