u/fortunate_imposter — reddlx

civiljobs.co.uk is live: Search multiple Civil Service vacancies, keywords, and city radius filters at once

A week back I posted a rough prototype here and it got 160+ upvotes and loads of useful comments. Thank you! I took the feedback on board and rebuilt a fair bit based on what you asked for. If you find it useful, let me know what else you'd like to see added. Here's where it's at now:

What it does:

Filter by department, grade, clearance, profession, contract type, salary and closing date all at once.
Multi-keyword and multi-city search in one go instead of running repeated searches.
City radius search ("within X miles") instead of exact location matches only.
Mass-recruitment campaigns show as single listings with actual vacancy counts.
Clean advert summaries showing key requirements, vetting, and interview stages at a glance.
Saved filter presets so you don't rebuild your search every visit.
Take-home pay and Alpha pension calculator.
Applicant guide for Success Profiles, Behaviours, and grades.
Direct links back to the official Civil Service Jobs page to apply.

Free, no account needed to browse. Signing in with Google just unlocks multi-search and saved presets.

Bugs and feature requests: I'll be active in the comments here for a while, but this post will inevitably go stale. For anything down the line, r/civiljobsuk is where I'm actually watching (no need to follow it, it's just there for support-style posts).

Link: civiljobs.co.uk

u/fortunate_imposter — 1 day ago

▲ 0 r/CivilServiceUK

🚨 JUST DROPPED: The Unofficial CSJ Search Tool Just Added a Vacancy Count Filter

Hey all, got frustrated with the official site while applying for CS jobs, so I built a tool to make searching easier. It pulls live vacancies and lets you:

Filter by minimum open posts (better odds than fighting for one seat)
Search multiple titles/locations at once (e.g., "developer, engineer" or "London, Birmingham")
Filter by grade, salary, closing date, and department
View key details upfront without clicking into every listing

Currently cannot sort by newest because CSJ does not publish the publish dates. I know a few workarounds, but they will not be accurate, so I left it out for now. If there is enough interest I will further develop this, otherwise I will keep it private.

Still early days. Would love to know if this is useful or what is missing.

https://demositecsj.vercel.app

Edit: Apologise for the cringe title.

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u/fortunate_imposter — 8 days ago

▲ 122 r/TheCivilService

Made a free tool to filter Civil Service jobs by vacancy count, feedback welcome

Hey all, got frustrated with the official site while applying for CS jobs, so I built a tool to make searching easier. It pulls live vacancies and lets you:

Filter by minimum open posts (better odds than fighting for one seat)
Search multiple titles/locations at once (e.g., "developer, engineer" or "London, Birmingham")
Filter by grade, salary, closing date, and department

Tip: If you prefer not to display vacancies from a specific department, you can use select all feature from drop-down and then simply deselect that particular department. This will prevent you from seeing job openings within that department.

Still early days. Would love to know if this is useful or what is missing.

https://demositecsj.vercel.app

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u/fortunate_imposter — 8 days ago

▲ 1 r/cscareerquestionsuk

To everyone who asked for MoJ Forward Deployed Engineer advice and vanished: How did it actually go?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been looking through past threads where people are frantically asking for advice on the MoJ FDE technical assessment and asking what the task was, how the coding vs. Q&A was weighted, and what to expect.

Inevitably, the comment sections are full of people saying: "Following, I have this next week too, please let me know!" or "Did you end up doing it? How was it?"

And then... total silence. Ghost town.

Can we break this cycle? If you are one of the people who came here looking for guidance, went through the assessment loop, and made it to the other side (pass or fail), drop a comment here.

What was the 45-minute task actually like? How did the Q&A panel feel? What do you wish you had known beforehand?

Let's actually build a resource here instead of everyone constantly deleting or abandoning their threads once they get what they need. How was your experience?

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u/fortunate_imposter — 19 days ago