Temporary Clerical Positions in the Public Service

newballsplease wrote: »

Why bother quoteing it when its allready been said??!

Yes this could go on... I only responded to point out the not so obvious apparently!

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

culsoh wrote: »

I've just submitted my application.

I read the Information Booklet - your only allowed to chose one location from List A and B.
Unfortuntely none of the locations on List B are anywhere near me... so I'm left with chosing one location from List A - which won't be easy as I live on the border of Cavan, Monaghan, Meath and Louth..

This may be a cheeky question, but does anyone know where I'd be better off selecting as my location in Stage B??

Just after being made redundant and getting married in September so I'm really really hoping I get something from this - I just wanna try and get the best possible chance by choosing a county where theres actual vacancies... Anyone know??? Or Know how I'd find out??

Whichever town listed has the most civil servants will likely be the one with most vacancies.

So the question is how do you find out which town employs the most civil servants?

Best way I can think of is looking at the governments info on decentralisation:

http://www.decentralisation.gov.ie/DecProjectstobeleftinsituoradvanced.html
http://www.decentralisation.gov.ie/Documents/BD_OriginalGovtAnnouncementBudget2004.html

Decentralisation plans proceeding (numbers from 2nd link – 2004 Govt announcement):

Buncrana: 120 jobs in Dept. of Social Protection.
Gweedore: 30 jobs in Foras Na Gaeilge.
Listowel: 50 jobs with the Revenue.

No information on the others.

Of course, there are also other civil service jobs in those locations unrelated to decentralisation but there doesn’t appear to be any way to determine numbers for those.

Bottom line: Pick Buncrana!

I applied for this a few days ago but I didn't get any kind of acknowledgement through my email. On publicjobs.ie, it says that my application has been submitted so I'm hoping I didn't miss out on anything...

Monkey09 wrote: »

I applied for this a few days ago but I didn't get any kind of acknowledgement through my email. On publicjobs.ie, it says that my application has been submitted so I'm hoping I didn't miss out on anything...

I am in the same boat,I have not yet received an e-mail with the skills and experience questionnaire and my account reads submitted.It states in the handbook to ring a certain phone no. if there is no e-mail by next Friday.

Monkey09 wrote: »

I applied for this a few days ago but I didn't get any kind of acknowledgement through my email. On publicjobs.ie, it says that my application has been submitted so I'm hoping I didn't miss out on anything...

I applied yesterday, no acknowledgement email received as yet, nothing in spam. Application states 'submitted', if no email received by friday I'll give them a ring.

The deadline has been extended for this until 12 midnight for some reason.

I applied last year and got the job and was also working in the Department of Social Protection. Really enjoyed it there I must say and it's a perfect job for the summer whilst in college. Also applied again this year, and I got a confirmation email that read as follows;

Dear _____,

You have successfully submitted your application for the position of Temporary Clerical Positions in the Public Service

Thank you,
Public Appointments Service

Then I updated my application and got another email saying my updated application was submitted properly.

For the people who didn't get a confirmation email of their submitted application, is this the first year you are applying? Before I applied this time I update my profile from last year when I applied first, so maybe the conformation email takes longer to arrive if you've just created a profile for this campaign? I don't know, just a thought.

Still haven't got the email about the questionnaire yet though.

V480 wrote: »

What do you mean by consistant?!

the questions they ask in the questionnaire seem to crop up again and again. just make sure that you reply with the same answer.

Postgrad10 wrote: »

Can you tell us a sample question please sjms ?:):) Just an idea of what the questions are like .

Last years questionnaire was full of pages of questions with, on a scale of one to five "do you enjoy teamwork?", "do you enjoy working alone?", "do you mind repetitive work?", "do you feel comfortable working with computers?"

All questions like that, nowhere did it ask for your work experience or actual qualifications. Maybe this year they will have something different lined up.

Hey Monkey09 -On the Information booklet it gives these numbers ,hope that helps:

Also has anyone gotten the email for the online questionnaire yet ? I got the confirmation of application but nothing yet on the questionnaire and it stats the deadline for completion is
5.00pm Tuesday 28th February 2012 ....

Thanks

Thanks for letting me know Frisbeeface , hopefully I'll get one at some stage today. Best of luck