Hello all,
To give you a bit of a background, I've never been a civil servant and always worked in private sector. I was made redundant due to Covid-19 as my work place shut down. I'm 30 years old and live in London. I've been applying for jobs in Civil Service for months and recently have finally been given two provisional job offers at EO grade. I'm completely torn and unsure which one to choose, as both seem like a great opportunity to break into Civil Service, and the job roles also sound very interesting.
Both roles are at EO grade. One is Business Support Officer (Learning & Development at Capabilities Team) at Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. The other one is Work Coach at Department for Work and Pensions. The role at MHCLG is a permanent contract, with salary of £27,300; whereas the role at DWP is an 18-month contract, with salary of £31,060 (it was initially 12 months but they just confirmed they would be extending it to 18 months). I love the sound of both, as the job descriptions sound very promising, especially for someone breaking into Civil Service.
In MHCLG, I love the fact that I'd be organising learning and development events, managing Fast Streamers and promoting talent, inclusive careers and building Capability strategies. With the DWP role, I'm excited about the fact, as a Work Coach, I'd be making big difference to people's lives, supporting them in getting back to work, building relationships with all sorts of people from different walks of life.
MHCLG would be working from home (depending on Covid situation), DWP is working from an allocated Job Centre (although customers don't go into Job Centres because of the pandemic and all the communication is done digitally or via phone calls). After the pandemic, it would all anyway be from the office.
I'm tempted to go for the 18-month role at DWP as it is paid almost £4,000 more pa and will allow me to save considerably more. However, the comforting fact that the MHCLG role is permanent and performed from home is also tempting, even though it pays less. With DWP, all my pre-employment checks are almost complete and I could start within 3 weeks, whereas MHCLG haven't started my checks yet and I'd need to wait until at least mid November to start. I'm unemployed currently, with some savings left, so it doesn't matter massively, but still.
Can anyone offer any insight into my problem, perhaps any existing Civil Servants with similar positions that could maybe advise on the choice? Which role gives me more transferable skills or more solid background for any future progression in Civil Service? Are there any existing Work Coaches here that give me any insight into "the average day" of the job?
Thank you so much.
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Two job offers from Civil Service (EO) - Unsure which one to choose
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darkclouds001 · 26/09/2020 00:55
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