Stage 1: Application
Your application will consist of three parts:
1. A Personal Details application form.
2. Your employment history detailing your responsibilities, skills, accomplishments, plus your qualifications and relevant training.
3. Behavioural statements (up to 250 words each). These include:
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Communicating and Influencing (Lead behaviour)
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Leadership
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Delivering at Pace
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Changing and Improving
The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and behavioural statements to assess your experience, skills and knowledge.
An initial sift will be conducted using the lead behaviour stated above. Candidates who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift.
For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.
Important information
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You will be asked to complete your employment history. Any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form.
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Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
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If your qualification history or behavioural statements contain any personal details your application will be withdrawn.
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Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application; however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate, and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own), applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use. A candidate’s guide to artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment.
Stage 2: Apprenticeship Eligibility and Skills Check
Apprenticeship Eligibility and Skills Check – What You Need to Know
If you are successful at sift your details will be sent to our external apprenticeship provider Estio for eligibility checks.
Our Provider Estio will then contact you by email. You will need to complete the following checks:
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Provide proof of your qualifications
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Show you are eligible for the apprenticeship
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Complete a Skills Scan
It is very important that you promptly reply to any emails from our provider. If you do not respond or if you do not meet all eligibility requirements you will not be progressed to interview stage.
The provider will need a maximum of 2 weeks for the checks.
Stage 3: Interview
If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the following Behaviours
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Communicating and Influencing (Lead behaviour)
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Leadership
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Delivering at Pace
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Changing and Improving
You will be asked to do a 5 minute presentation explaining what IT Asset Management is and the value it brings to a business.
Interviews will take place from the start of December 2025. Sift and Interview dates to be confirmed.
Further Information:
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If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards.
A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location.
Please note that these vacancies are not currently eligible for new applications for Visa Sponsorship on the Skilled Worker route, for any candidates who do not currently have permission to be in the UK as a Skilled Worker where they were sponsored before 4 April 2024, even if relying on tradeable points (including the new entrant tradeable points option) as they are not included in the published Immigration Salary List. This information is offered as guidance only, and we recommend that applicants seek specialist advice on their eligibility for Visa Sponsorship (if applicable) when considering whether to apply for any role.
Reasonable Adjustment
At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
