Morning everyone,
To summarize, I applied for a post in January last which is in my field of expertise, and had all the required qualifications etc. Was called for interview in mid February and did a quite intensive and comphrensive 50 minutes with a four person interview board. My initial reaction afterwards was that there was a couple of points I should have done better on but whats done is done. From memory there were a total of 6 persons called to the interview. Approx mid march got the letter saying unsuccessful but welcome to re-apply for anything relevant in the future.
On Wednesday of this week I was on the website where the original post had been advertised and there it is again with a new closing date but everything else identical to before ! Rang the contact person given for informal enquiries and turns out that nobody was appointed from the original process.
My question is this : I would love to secure this position. To apply one has to send CV plus a sort of "what I would do to achieve the objectives specified " outline plan. I can do all that, I have already from before, I also know now where I need to strengthen this outline plan. My worry would be that the previous application process would be overshadowing the new one to the detriment of the new process. There is a likelihood that 2 members of the previous board would be on this new board.
My gut instinct is to give it a shot, if the previous application comes up I would intend to say that I used that as a preparation point and reviewed my submission to improve same,
What do you think ? All comments welcomed, apologies for the length of post.
westgolf
To summarize, I applied for a post in January last which is in my field of expertise, and had all the required qualifications etc. Was called for interview in mid February and did a quite intensive and comphrensive 50 minutes with a four person interview board. My initial reaction afterwards was that there was a couple of points I should have done better on but whats done is done. From memory there were a total of 6 persons called to the interview. Approx mid march got the letter saying unsuccessful but welcome to re-apply for anything relevant in the future.
On Wednesday of this week I was on the website where the original post had been advertised and there it is again with a new closing date but everything else identical to before ! Rang the contact person given for informal enquiries and turns out that nobody was appointed from the original process.
My question is this : I would love to secure this position. To apply one has to send CV plus a sort of "what I would do to achieve the objectives specified " outline plan. I can do all that, I have already from before, I also know now where I need to strengthen this outline plan. My worry would be that the previous application process would be overshadowing the new one to the detriment of the new process. There is a likelihood that 2 members of the previous board would be on this new board.
My gut instinct is to give it a shot, if the previous application comes up I would intend to say that I used that as a preparation point and reviewed my submission to improve same,
What do you think ? All comments welcomed, apologies for the length of post.
westgolf