Edexcel, a Pearson company, is the UK awarding body with a web for examiner recruitment. Edexcel proves the idea that the more money you have to develop a
website, the more wacky features you'll build into it. In this case, the company uses its web to make decisions, and rather wrong decisions, as this story tells.
George, a highly experienced ex-teacher applied for a job as an examiner for Edexcel where they could spend just a few weeks a year marking the exam scripts of students. Reading through the job specs, George easily qualified. Furthermore he had a career's worth of experience; high level work as a teacher trainer and he had contributed majorly to numerous textbooks for this exam through the rest of his career.
Application for a job at Edexcel is done online. Trying the web form for myself: I can confirm it makes stupid decisions as you enter data.
George complained that he found that he was not even allowed to apply to mark the subjects he had actually taught! He was only allowed to apply to be a senior moderator and chief examiner for almost any subject he did not teach. But he could not apply for work he was good at.
George continued, "When I finally pressed send on my application, the website immediately emailed all my referees because I heard back from them within minutes. Both my (very good) referees filled in an online form and responded quickly because within an hour I received the shock of a rejection letter".
It's bad enough that Edexcel wastes his referees time regardless of him being in the running for the job. It is however stupid to reject George without considering his wider experience. As you see from the mails below, he had no recent teaching experience so that was the end of the line for him.
(Never mind the fact that George knows the chief examiners at Edexcel and the subject leaders. None of them have recent teaching experience either).
As well as George, I feel for the young who have many more job applying years ahead of them than me. Personally I'd like the job of whoever specced this web and doesn't know how to match skills to a job. Maybe that is exactly how that person got their job.
Application for a job at Edexcel is done online. Trying the web form for myself: I can confirm it makes stupid decisions as you enter data.
George complained that he found that he was not even allowed to apply to mark the subjects he had actually taught! He was only allowed to apply to be a senior moderator and chief examiner for almost any subject he did not teach. But he could not apply for work he was good at.
George continued, "When I finally pressed send on my application, the website immediately emailed all my referees because I heard back from them within minutes. Both my (very good) referees filled in an online form and responded quickly because within an hour I received the shock of a rejection letter".
It's bad enough that Edexcel wastes his referees time regardless of him being in the running for the job. It is however stupid to reject George without considering his wider experience. As you see from the mails below, he had no recent teaching experience so that was the end of the line for him.
(Never mind the fact that George knows the chief examiners at Edexcel and the subject leaders. None of them have recent teaching experience either).
As well as George, I feel for the young who have many more job applying years ahead of them than me. Personally I'd like the job of whoever specced this web and doesn't know how to match skills to a job. Maybe that is exactly how that person got their job.
REJECTION LETTER
Re: Your application for Examiner GCSE/ International GCSE Chemistry C2 (5038F)
Thank you for your interest in working with Edexcel. I am sorry to inform you we are unable to offer you an appointment with us.
If you wish to discuss this decision, please contact the AA Recruitment Team at aarecruitment@edexcel.com and a member of the team will respond to you as soon as possible.Please do not reply to this email directly as this message has been sent from an automated email system, and your response will not be received.
Tara Tierney, AA Recruitment Manager
REQUEST FOR EXPLANATION
Our recruitment criteria for this position requires an applicant to have at least one academic year’s full-time teaching experience (not in a tutoring or supply role) within the past eight years and delivering a qualification and subject relevant to their application. As your last relevant teaching experience was in 1988, we were unfortunately unable to continue processing your application. Apologies for any disappointment caused. Kind regards,Gareth Topping Assessment Associate Recruitment Assistant
E: gareth.topping@pearson.com
D: 0207 190 4571
REQUEST FOR EXPLANATION
Response (Steve Bowler) 09/03/2012 01.14 PMThank you for your enquiry. As my colleague stated, one of these is to have had at least one academic year’s full-time teaching experience within the past eight years. As you last taught in 1988, I am afraid we are unable to process your application. Best Regards,
Steve Bowler
Subject Advisor (Admin)
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