Unfair Job Interview process

[waheedrafiq]

Hi All this is very urgent has interivews have not yet taken place , I am from UK
I work for a City Council ,

My job was advertise 8 months ago in September 2009 the closing date was October 2009 , in normal job interview process you are told if you have got the job or not within weeks but this City Council continue on until now just last week I was told my application was not successful , which is fine , I can accept this .

but my issue is as its a council job those member of the public who did apply they would have felt automatically that they did not get the job when then could have , because in real life no one is going to wait for 8 months

can i do something about this.

kind regards

Waheed

[Androcles]

I thnk you neeed to provide more details Waheed. You say you work for a City council and that interviews have not yet taken place for a job. You then say "MY job was advertised 8 months ago ...etc.

Are you saying tha this was your actual job that you were doing, so that you are re-applyying for your own job? Or did you just mean a job for which you were applying?

I am puzzled sine if it was your own job for which you were applying and did not get it, I would expect you to be more upset, so I am not sure if I understand your full complaint, other than the length of time for them to make up their minds.

Many people would say you are lucky to have had a rejection letter, in many cases firms never tell people that they have failed - you apply and there is silence so you carry on applying for other jobs.

I once had an interview for a job for company A, and after several weeks, then had three interviews spread over several more weeks, spent a day with the department of Company B, was offered the job, handed in my month's notice to my current company, worked it, had a week off between jobs, and had worked a month of the new job, when I got a second interview offer from Company A.

There is no law that says an organisation has to conduct its interview process in a particular time scale other than common politeness. If you want to raise an issue, write and complain detailing what has happened,

[factorfiction]

I'm not sure I follow this Waheed. I'm puzzled by your first sentence which says "All this is very urgent has interivews have not yet taken place " . I can't see what is urgent if you have already been turned down. I realise it took them ages to turn you down but that doesn't make it urgent now does it?.
Or are you saying you had to reapply for a job with the council as you were in a redundancy pool and have been turned down so you want to know how to appeal/object before others are interviewed.?
It's not good practice to make people wait 8 months but it does happen- maybe there was a funding issue or their needs changed.
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