Internal job transfer 2021 - HELP!

[Fifilola29]

Hi all. I applied for an internal transfer last week through success factors to be closer to home and to my local DO. It was a 6 hour a week reduction in contract dropping from 38 to 32 hours.

On Tuesday , 3 days after submitting the application, HR left a voicemail explaining they had sent me an email to “confirm the drop in hours, therefore drop in pay, before we go ahead with the transfer”. They requested I emailed back by end of the next day (Wednesday). Emailed back within the hour confirming I was happy. Heard nothing, informed my DOM I’d applied and been contacted by HR recruitment.

Today (Friday) I got an email to say I’ve been unsuccessful in my application?! Can anyone shed ANY light on this? I can’t get hold of the HR woman I spoke to the other day, I’ve emailed and left her a voicemail with no response. Totally in limbo and no idea what’s going on, given that she stated that the transfer would go ahead upon my confirmation.

[denhamhoop]

Hi all. I applied for an internal transfer last week through success factors to be closer to home and to my local DO. It was a 6 hour a week reduction in contract dropping from 38 to 32 hours.

On Tuesday , 3 days after submitting the application, HR left a voicemail explaining they had sent me an email to “confirm the drop in hours, therefore drop in pay, before we go ahead with the transfer”. They requested I emailed back by end of the next day (Wednesday). Emailed back within the hour confirming I was happy. Heard nothing, informed my DOM I’d applied and been contacted by HR recruitment.

Today (Friday) I got an email to say I’ve been unsuccessful in my application?! Can anyone shed ANY light on this? I can’t get hold of the HR woman I spoke to the other day, I’ve emailed and left her a voicemail with no response. Totally in limbo and no idea what’s going on, given that she stated that the transfer would go ahead upon my confirmation.

Being a cynic it's probably a job currently held at the DO by one of the DOM's favourites or a Union Official and therefore will never be actually be available or the non cynical view could be someone in the DO has applied for it and is senior to you and has got the vacancy instead

[glenfiddich]

or is it the fact you informed your dom and he's thrown a spanner in the works

[Murdoch]

It could simply be that somebody with more seniority also applied for the job?