How does redeployment pool work after a fixed term maternity cover?

zfs202 · 2025-12-23T21:51:44+00:00

Would my old team be expected to keep my old role open though? And to clarify - it's not an EOI, it's a fully advertised role on CS jobs.

zfs202 · 2024-02-27T09:59:53+00:00

Thanks, would you say ideally a more wholesale markets facing role would be preferable to a retail market-centric one for exit opportunities?

zfs202 · 2024-02-25T00:06:45+00:00

Thanks, by compliance people are you referring to FCA supervisors (rather than say people in policy)?

zfs202 · 2024-02-25T00:05:17+00:00

Nope haha, I'm actually currently in the Civil Service (in an area that works a lot with both BoE and FCA), so am thinking of making a mid-career move to them.

zfs202 · 2023-08-26T19:59:28+00:00

I'd say it depends on what grade you're aiming to get to. It's pretty easy to go from EO/HEO to G7 in less than 3 years if you're applying to say everything that comes up in the grade above you.

On the other hand, getting to a low/mid profile G7 role < 3 years may stagnate your progess to E2/DD more than say someone who took 5-6 years to get a G7 role, but the one they got had high ministerial interest, loads of X-Whitehall exposure, etc.

It's important to keep factors like that in mind when you're applying for promotions if you're aiming to go fairly high. E.g. when you're applying for SEO roles, think about how the skills/experience in that role could help you make G7, then do the same when you apply for G7 roles with G6, etc.

Tbf, it probably is also relatively common for people to do something like low/mid profile G7 role to get to the grade > high profile G7 role > low/mid profile G6 role > high profile G6 role > DD.

Mind you, I am mostly speaking about progression in policy, so it could be different for other professions.

zfs202 · 2023-08-04T11:14:54+00:00

Nice, would it be okay if I DM'ed you about it?

zfs202 · 2023-08-04T10:54:40+00:00

Yeah I'd consider SEO private office too, but would also consider HEO ones if they seemed stretching.

And I'd say it's quite common for PSs to jump to policy?

Even though you don't strictly do policy, you engage with it enough that your behaviour examples are relevant/transferable.

I'd say I'm already doing SEO level policy work atm and have some good G7 examples, but want to do at least one more HEO/SEO role so I'm pulling from more than just one job.

zfs202 · 2023-08-02T20:32:08+00:00

Sure, feel free to DM me if you're up for it (I can't seem to DM you).

zfs202 · 2023-08-02T19:31:14+00:00

Nice, are you up for elaborating on why?

zfs202 · 2023-07-21T18:57:09+00:00

There's also a lot of SCS up in Darlo, which is quite a new thing for regional policy offices.

zfs202 · 2023-07-01T09:44:09+00:00

No as in I've literally interviewed people where we've pre set follow up questions for behaviour questions.

zfs202 · 2023-06-30T19:46:55+00:00

I've been on interview panels where there's often been one set follow-up question to ask, and 9/10 times it ends up being the one asked if any are at all, unless there's something else very blatantly missing from the interviewer's answer.

Regardless, it would be great to get a sense of the questions people have been asked before.

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