Our Recruitment Process and Top Tips
Are you interested in applying for a job with us but want to understand more about our recruitment process?
Application Stage
You can apply for our vacancies on Greater.jobs, most vacancies will require you to fill out our application form, this will include your personal details and a supporting statement. Your supporting statement should address the ‘About You’ section of the Role Profile for the job. This document will be available as a link on the advert.
You will also be able to find information on our employee benefits.
Some adverts may ask you to apply via CV, if this is the case there will be information available on what information you will need to provide and where to send your CV for consideration on the advert.
Shortlisting
When shortlisting your application, recruiting mangers will take a blind approach to recruiting. They will use the Supporting Information section of your application and your work history to assess your suitability for the role against the requirements listed in the ‘About You’ section of the Role Profile.
You will be notified of the outcome of your application form via email and if successful you will be invited to book an interview slot.
Interviews
When preparing for the interview, you should familiarise yourself with the Role Profile. The ‘About You’ section contains the criteria that will be assessed at interview stage. You can prepare for interview by ensuring that you have clear examples relating to how you have met these criteria.
Please let us know if you have any access requirements or reasonable adjustments that you will need in order to attend your interview by contacting recruitment@trafford.gov.uk
Offer Stage
If you are offered the job after interviewing, you will be sent a ‘Conditional Offer’ detailing your new role. Along with the conditional offer letter, our team will be in touch regarding your pre-employment checks.
Pre-Employment Checks
The pre-employment checks that you will need to undertake will depend on the role that you've applied for, these checks may include:
Right to work in the UK
Reference checks
Pre-Employment Health Declaration
Qualification checks
Professional registration
Gaps in employment
Disclosure and Barring Service checks or police vetting*
*If the role you have applied to requires a DBS check, please note that the information provided will be dealt with in accordance with the DBS's Code of Practice. You can review the Code of Practice here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-code-of-practice
If you have any questions about recruitment at Trafford Council, we will be happy to help! Please contact our team at recruitment@trafford.gov.uk.
Good luck!
Our Top Tips For Your Application
Hopefully, you have seen a job you like the sound of, and you’re thinking of applying. An application form is your opportunity to tell us how brilliant you are and why we would be foolish not to employ you.
Our application forms aren’t all that scary once you have gone through them, but you do need to get used to that feeling of showing off. It’s not something that comes naturally to a lot of us, but if you don’t tell us how brilliant you are, then we won’t know, you need to really spell it out to us!
Don't miss anything
Most fields within our application forms are mandatory, which means you’ll have to complete them before you’re able to apply.
Any gaps in the application form mean that you’re missing out on really showing off who you are. It can also tell an employer that you may sometimes miss out on the smaller details, and that isn’t the impression you want to give.
How to format
Our application forms give you the opportunity to really focus on the things that you have achieved, and this is usually in the Knowledge Skills and Experience section at the end of the form.
This is where you need to put in as much information as possible. It may be that the role has an ‘About You’ section that tells you what we are looking for in you. Make sure to explain how you meet these values and give examples.
Provide Examples
Yes, we want examples of your brilliance, but they don’t have to be work based examples. You may not have had the chance for a career so far. Examples of how brilliant you are can come from anything at all. How did you manage your time when you were at school? Did you have caring responsibilities? Have you volunteered somewhere?
This might tell us how great you are at prioritising, or time management. How you manage multiple activities and demands at once. Or how you used your own time to help someone else.
'I'
The application is about you. You may well have examples where you worked as part of a team, but that doesn’t tell us what you did. Make sure you have some ‘I’ sentences in there. I did this and I did that, even if it makes you feel awkward to take the credit.
You lose nothing from trying, so why not fill out an application today and hopefully you’ll be joining one of our incredible workforces soon.
