Number of candidates for one role civil service

[MyLoftyTiger]

Is it normal for the Civil Service to interview 15 people for one position?

Wow, that's a lot. It wouldn't be normal for my team, that's far too long taken up with interviews. We'd have raised the pass mark. Though you're not allowed to raise the pass mark for people applying under guaranteed interview schemes (e.g. disability ones) so I suppose you might have your hands tied and have to interview loads.

ALB rather than proper civil service, but we’d sift to a shorter candidate list than that.

We are only allowed to progress 5 applications per position.

Same here - max we’d interview would be 5-6 unless it was bulk recruitment exercise for multiple vacancies.

If there was five different dates and three different times, would it be five candidates?

See when you enter the building for your job interview, would it be normal to hand over your mobile number?

Five dates ane three time slots might just be all the slots. We tend to plan for more slots than we’ve got candidates to maximise chances of them working out for one of the slots.

Mobile number - I think we get it on applications. Would probably confirm contact info on the day though.

Same as @ScaryM0nster - we give out more slots than we’re interviewing to give the candidates the best chance of finding a suitable date.

How many candidates do you think there is if there are five dates and three different times on each date

It depends…so for example on my team we had a vacancy that we didn’t want to go through the interview process for so we took another candidate from another post that had been advertised as the skills were similar.

Is it really just one position? It is not unusual to interview for several similar at once.

Yes only one role

Somewhere between one and fifteen.

Trying to guess will achieve nothing.

I think that’s probably the available interview times, rather than number of interviews. Fifteen people being interviewed sounds excessive.

Honestly it could be anything. That’s probably just all the times the whole panel are free in the relevant week.

The Civil Service is not all the same. There's hundreds of different employers with thousands of different roles and the answer could be different in every case.

We sometimes only interview a very small number of candidates (like 1-4) because that's the number of suitable applicants.

Other roles that are more general could have far more applicants and interviewees. You say there's one role, but there could be more than one post.

But in any case, you can't tell how many interviewees there are from the number of slots are available. Only that it's between 1 and 15.

Bjorkdidit only one person is getting employed