Dublin Fire service recruitment? Anyone know??

megabantz

lonfire1 wrote: »

C P A T ..??

candidate physical ability test used by fire services all over the world including DFB, LFB and most county Fire Services in Ireland - google it and take a look.

lonfire1

Probably should know that.... Thanks

TallGlass

Sorry should have made myself a little cleared as I understand the process, is it the same as the Garda in the sense of the tests been;

Logical reasoning and verbal reasoning?

Squirrelsnuts

Arruabarrena wrote: »

Online aptitude, repeat aptitude, interview, medical & physical. That's what id expect.

Usually physicals after the aptitude and before the interviews???

OffalyMedic

Anyone have practice aptitude tests??

TallGlass

Squirrelsnuts wrote: »

Usually physicals after the aptitude and before the interviews???

I would say after interview. Same as Garda, public jobs till interview then hand over to DFB then medical etc...

WhiteWalls

The people that are in the volunteer side of Dublin Fire Brigade surely have a huge advantage going into this? How difficult is the CPAT in comparison to the Garda one? Whats the chances of a joe soap getting in, ie somebody who has no volunteering ecxperience with fire brigade?

Firerunner

The way I look at it is, if your not in ye can't win....!

megabantz

WhiteWalls wrote: »

The people that are in the volunteer side of Dublin Fire Brigade surely have a huge advantage going into this? How difficult is the CPAT in comparison to the Garda one? Whats the chances of a joe soap getting in, ie somebody who has no volunteering ecxperience with fire brigade?

DFB don't have a volunteer side.. you might be thinking of Dublin Civil Defence which isn't always a good thing as DFB don't usually have any interraction with them.

WhiteWalls

So basically there isn't really any huge advantage that people have over each other? Would there be many retained fire fighters going for this?I am a member of the Garda Reserve so that might help?

megabantz

WhiteWalls wrote: »

So basically there isn't really any huge advantage that people have over each other? Would there be many retained fire fighters going for this?I am a member of the Garda Reserve so that might help?

You will have retained/fulltime/paramedics/advancedparamedic/shop attendants/busdrivers/builders/people on the scratcher/truck drivers etc etc etc going for this. I wouldn't worry about what others bring to the table just focus on what you can bring to the table and if they want you they want you. It wont do you any good worrying about what others have on their CV. Obviously past experience benefits you but this goes for any job you apply for. They are looking to FULLY train recruits, if they wanted fully trained firefighters they would have asked so everyone has a fair chance

TallGlass

megabantz wrote: »

You will have retained/fulltime/paramedics/advancedparamedic/shop attendants/busdrivers/builders/people on the scratcher/truck drivers etc etc etc going for this. I wouldn't worry about what others bring to the table just focus on what you can bring to the table and if they want you they want you. It wont do you any good worrying about what others have on their CV. Obviously past experience benefits you but this goes for any job you apply for. They are looking to FULLY train recruits, if they wanted fully trained firefighters they would have asked so everyone has a fair chance

Totally agree with this, as a Garda Reserve it had absolutely no impact on us going for the full time service.

5500

Arruabarrena any idea on a rough time line as to when stages may be, eg online/ in person/ interview?

Arruabarrena

No idea really. I'd imagine it will all kick off in January. They need a class ready to start in June/July so that gives them plenty of time.

TallGlass

Usually a week or two after closing date would be my guess, then around a week or so to complete the tests, should bring us into the new year. Perfect timing.

Arruabarrena

DCC have other priorities prior to Xmas.

helsbels31

What priorities?

5500

I thought looking at similar es related jobs the in person aptitude test's would possibly have been by mid December freeing up the new year for interviews but all should probably become a bit clearer after the closing date I guess if PAS give a time line estimate.

Do you know if the call taker roles are advertising this side of Christmas as well?

Arruabarrena

Confined interviews taking place over the next two weeks. Plus DCC have several other large competitions being worked on between now and Xmas. The confined competition gives them a bit of breathing space with regards to the external comp.

helsbels31

Wow didn't think there would be enough candidates from internal comp to have 2 weeks of interviews. That's interesting. There must be plenty who got through from confined comp. Good luck to all going for confined and external comps

TallGlass

Have we got word on how many places are available?

megabantz

Who knows... at the end of the day we only need 1 position available to be in with a chance!

I spoke to a few people yesterday and I was told the aptitude tests will be supervised and we will not be getting a prelim round from the comfort of our sofa and a laptop.... let the number cutting commence

Bilyboy

I'm new to the site and I was told to check out this forum. I too have applied for the firefighter positions and I have a few questions that maybe somebody could help me with. From what I can gather there is a class in the new year which consists of a group made up of controllers? and internal staff. So my first question is:

1. The second class is that going to be more of the controller / internal staff or will it be something that myself and thousands can aspire to?

2. How many are planned to be in the first and subsequent classes.

3. How many will be on the panel and how long will it last.

Apologies if these questions have been asked previously.

123kid2014

megabantz wrote: »

Who knows... at the end of the day we only need 1 position available to be in with a chance!

I spoke to a few people yesterday and I was told the aptitude tests will be supervised and we will not be getting a prelim round from the comfort of our sofa and a laptop.... let the number cutting commence

I'm glad that there'll be no online aptitude like the airport as I know quite a few lads who cheated on them . Using maths apps on the iPad and even getting someone else to do it for them.

Iseedeadpixels

123kid2014 wrote: »

I'm glad that there'll be no online aptitude like the airport as I know quite a few lads who cheated on them . Using maths apps on the iPad and even getting someone else to do it for them.

But they would have been caught out in the supervised test with worse results wouldn't they?

123kid2014

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

But they would have been caught out in the supervised test with worse results wouldn't they?

They would've if the airport had a supervised test. They only did a online aptitude test and then interviews and physical/fitness test . Jokes on the airport really

megabantz

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

But they would have been caught out in the supervised test with worse results wouldn't they?

DAA never verified the online tests

TallGlass

megabantz wrote: »

DAA never verified the online tests

That's mental !

5500

I was speaking to someone today on the internal recruitment and they did online already and have supervised coming up, surely the external will be the same since it may have 10 times+ applying and would take pas a lot of time to get through without shortlisting.

Paramedic/garda/the last dfb call taker were all done in the same format too eg online followed by supervised

TallGlass

5500 wrote: »

I was speaking to someone today on the internal recruitment and they did online already and have supervised coming up, surely the external will be the same since it may have 10 times+ applying and would take pas a lot of time to get through without shortlisting.

Paramedic/garda/the last dfb call taker were all done in the same format too eg online followed by supervised

It's always been PAS format !