Brace Yourself Again......
If you're confused about the following, you probably want to start from: here
From Monday the MTAS site goes live again (after shamefully having to be taken off as it was shown someone had hacked it, making it possible for everyone to everyone else's application), and new interviews for Round 1 are released.
It seems that after all the rumour-mongering, only your rank order was changable. That, and whether you'd accept an FTSTA or not. This isn't as bad as I thought it'd be, as it means that the total number of applications listed under the statistics pages are still viable, as you can't apply anywhere new. With that in mind, I've decided to switch my 1st choice (London/KSS), for my 3rd choice (Peninsula), as there have been only 23 applications total to Peninsula for 3 posts. Considering my Northern application interviewed 23 people for 3 ST and 2 FTSTA posts, and that there are another 23 people who could switch to there, I think that Peninsula represents my best bet of being offered a proper training post. Which probably means my chances just went from 0.1% to 1%, lol.
As to whether interviews will be conducted differently, noone knows. However, everyone now knows what to expect if they don't change, so the element of surprise of having "more than 1 interview" has been lost, and people have now had considerable time to prepare. That alone makes the competition stiff, let alone if they decide to toughen (the already tough) the interviews up.
On another note, it seems Australia and New Zealand have been inundated with requests for locum work, which they are ecstatic about, because they are both short of doctors - Something that probably won't be a problem from August onwards.
It also turns out that with upto 8 grand available for transfer allowance, if everyone has to apply for allowance and uproot to a new post across the country, there's close to a 100 MILLION that's going to be spent. Once again, money that the Governement haven't even considered and will try and avoid paying out, resulting in many doctors and their families being left to fork out massive fees to move furniture and belongings, let alone pay stamp duty and all that other crap the suits leech from us when we buy a property.
The only other shocking development is the Government's laughable idea about sending those who are unable to secure jobs on voluntary work for various organisations, as a way of ensuring people have work. Yeah, screw us over, then try and pack us off to a far flung corner of the world to work without pay in a job that will no doubt be unrecognised for any kind of training. Idiots.
From Monday the MTAS site goes live again (after shamefully having to be taken off as it was shown someone had hacked it, making it possible for everyone to everyone else's application), and new interviews for Round 1 are released.
It seems that after all the rumour-mongering, only your rank order was changable. That, and whether you'd accept an FTSTA or not. This isn't as bad as I thought it'd be, as it means that the total number of applications listed under the statistics pages are still viable, as you can't apply anywhere new. With that in mind, I've decided to switch my 1st choice (London/KSS), for my 3rd choice (Peninsula), as there have been only 23 applications total to Peninsula for 3 posts. Considering my Northern application interviewed 23 people for 3 ST and 2 FTSTA posts, and that there are another 23 people who could switch to there, I think that Peninsula represents my best bet of being offered a proper training post. Which probably means my chances just went from 0.1% to 1%, lol.
As to whether interviews will be conducted differently, noone knows. However, everyone now knows what to expect if they don't change, so the element of surprise of having "more than 1 interview" has been lost, and people have now had considerable time to prepare. That alone makes the competition stiff, let alone if they decide to toughen (the already tough) the interviews up.
On another note, it seems Australia and New Zealand have been inundated with requests for locum work, which they are ecstatic about, because they are both short of doctors - Something that probably won't be a problem from August onwards.
It also turns out that with upto 8 grand available for transfer allowance, if everyone has to apply for allowance and uproot to a new post across the country, there's close to a 100 MILLION that's going to be spent. Once again, money that the Governement haven't even considered and will try and avoid paying out, resulting in many doctors and their families being left to fork out massive fees to move furniture and belongings, let alone pay stamp duty and all that other crap the suits leech from us when we buy a property.
The only other shocking development is the Government's laughable idea about sending those who are unable to secure jobs on voluntary work for various organisations, as a way of ensuring people have work. Yeah, screw us over, then try and pack us off to a far flung corner of the world to work without pay in a job that will no doubt be unrecognised for any kind of training. Idiots.
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