Engineering positions in local councils

MattressRick

Hi I applied for an executive engineer position in my local council 3 few weeks ago but haven't heard back yet about whether I've made the cut for an interview or been unsuccessful. Is it normally this long or longer?

Id imagine they have a lot of applications to go through compared to a specific role in the private sector, but normally in private sector I'd hear back within a week to ten days of the deadline. If anyone can advise if this is a normal waiting time for public sector jobs then I'll keep waiting and hoping!

FluffPiece

No harm in firing an email off to whoever is doing the recruiting to enquire to the current status. The people doing the admin should be able to give a fairly generic response easily enough anyway. I'd say more and more of the staff are working from home these days given the stupid numbers so I'd expect anything being run at the moment to have complications and be a bit slower than normal.

The chan chan man

The councils are all over the place at the moment trying to work remotely. They’re not geared up for it so the whole process is probably all up in the air. I’d follow up with an email.

Not sure i could handle the glacial pace of life as a council engineer myself!

confusticated

It's completely normal, you could follow up if you like but 3 weeks is nothing. I applied for jobs in August and got called for interviews in October, December and January. It takes a while to set up the interview panel afaik as they try to form them of engineers from neighbouring councils. Best of luck!

confusticated

The chan chan man wrote: »

The councils are all over the place at the moment trying to work remotely. They’re not geared up for it so the whole process is probably all up in the air. I’d follow up with an email.

Not sure i could handle the glacial pace of life as a council engineer myself!

From what I've seen most of the engineers are WFH and have been set up to do so for months. HR can vary but have been quick to come back to me on anything I've sent.

As to the glacial pace, yeah partly true but partly up to the individual tbh. You can be busy if you want to be.

MattressRick

Thanks this is good to know. Was wondering was it going to be weeks or months of waiting to hear back but now I know!

Outkast_IRE

Most areas of Public Sector or Local Authority in particular operate differently to private sector , timelines can be slower in alot of cases. I wouldnt be refreshing the emails in anticipation , could be months with these lads.