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About this desk
The Shortlist Desk is an independent editorial desk in the United Kingdom, writing practical notes on hiring, applications, interviews, pay and trades.
What this desk is
The Shortlist Desk writes practical notes on hiring in the United Kingdom. Four sections hold them: Applications, Interviews, Pay and contracts, Sectors and trades. Each note begins with one question a reader asks before or during a job move, answers it in the opening paragraph, and then sets out the detail a reader can jump through. Hiring is machinery, and this desk explains how the machinery works.
Who writes it
The desk writes every note. It reads GOV.UK guidance, Acas codes and advice, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Information Commissioner's Office, HM Revenue and Customs, the Health and Safety Executive and the Office for National Statistics, alongside sector bodies, unions and professional institutes. Each note names the sources it read, so a reader can go to the original.
The sections
Applications follows a document from the advert to the shortlist. Interviews sits in the room, from the first handshake to the offer. Pay and contracts reads the written statement, the payslip and the tax that sits behind both. Sectors and trades goes to the work itself, from a greenkeeping shed in February to a jeweller's bench and a shift handover in a warehouse.
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