Environment Agency: Recruitment
Question
Jon Trickett
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data her Department holds on the amount of time taken to inform candidates applying for jobs at the Environment Agency of the outcome of their application and whether they have been called for interview in each of the last five years.
Answer
The average time taken to inform candidates of the outcome of their application to a job advertised at the Environment Agency for each of the past full five calendar years is shown in the table below.
The data is for the period between the advert close date and the date the applicant was notified of the outcome of their application. The outcome of the application is either for the applicant to be invited to interview or for them to be informed that they have not been invited to interview
Year | Average time taken in working days for applicant to be notified of the outcome of an EA job application |
2018 | 14.6 |
2019 | 12.7 |
2020 | 16.0 |
2021 | 12.7 |
2022 | 12.7 for posts advertised using the established EA recruitment system 13.7 for selected posts that have used a different recruitment system for part of 2022 |