Mandarins 'r' us

[bohemiancoast]

For those of you who have been waiting with bated breath to here the results of my promotion board, I have good news.

I will be joining the ranks of the senior civil service. Just as soon as I find myself a job.

Oh, yes, and I appear to have been drinking for four hours.

Comments

Getting a job

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't think so. How it works is that you have a promotion exercise, and they pass a number of people, who then have the right to apply for jobs in the next grade. You don't get the new *pay* until you get the job. Theoretically the promotion list lasts for a year, and it could take up to that long to find something. Except that in practice, everyone always finds something fairly quickly; I had to wait for about seven months last time, and that was *much* longer than average -- at least in part because I was on maternity leave when I got promoted.

I don't want to move until the piece of work I'm doing at the moment is finished, but that might be in as little as 3-4 weeks.

Meanwhile, apparently they're going to talk us through the range of vacancies, and then we choose one or more to apply for. My ex-boss has a job in mind for me, too, and is waging a propaganda campaign to try to get me to apply for it.

I am, broadly speaking, picky; I probably want to keep my current working hours (30 hours over 4 days) and continue to work overwhelmingly in London. But I still don't think it's going to be a problem.

Re: Getting a job

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it. Had an 'orrid thought that it might have been one of those promotion in name only things...