Waterford fulltime firefighthers reruitment June 2016

apc

http://www.waterfordcouncil.ie/en/Resident/Recruitment/

Papp9

Will be given it a go anyway, looks like a great place to work with all the work been done down there, new station and that.

DuckyFuzz

Will many people apply do you reckon?
How many are they recruiting I wonder?

123kid2014

DuckyFuzz wrote: »

Will many people apply do you reckon?
How many are they recruiting I wonder?

I heard 4 external and 2 internal

1000+ will apply id imagine

nicknackgtb

123kid2014 wrote: »

I heard 4 external and 2 internal

1000+ will apply id imagine

I heard 2 full time and 1 retained!

DeltaDelta

I imagine there will be anything 5-6000 applying. Any idea what the last recruitment drive attracted?

DuckyFuzz

Anybody heard anything back yet?

DuckyFuzz

I rang HR last week and they said no dates or anything confirmed for next stage. Still sorting through the applications. Could take a while....

sjc10

DuckyFuzz wrote: »

I rang HR last week and they said no dates or anything confirmed for next stage. Still sorting through the applications. Could take a while....

That's a bit slower than usual; anyone go for it the last time? Dealing with some of these councils is a job in itself. Galway is by far the worst so far though

DuckyFuzz

Rang them there again.. Still nothing set, still no dates for any further steps. She said it'll be a good while

sjc10

DuckyFuzz wrote: »

Rang them there again.. Still nothing set, still no dates for any further steps. She said it'll be a good while

Yeah I emailed them as well and they weren't very helpful. The hr department probably took the summer off and are emailing from a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. 5 weeks past the closing date

TJHooker2016

DeltaDelta wrote: »

I imagine there will be anything 5-6000 applying. Any idea what the last recruitment drive attracted?

Well 6800 went for DFB so i would imagine your figure is optimistic

Choppy1916

TJHooker2016 wrote: »

Well 6800 went for DFB so i would imagine your figure is optimistic

Ye definitely, sure 2000 went for cork city last time so I'd imagine waterford would be approx 1500 .

Choppy1916

DeltaDelta wrote: »

I imagine there will be anything 5-6000 applying. Any idea what the last recruitment drive attracted?

Last recruitment for Waterford attracted 1000 approx. I went for it that time and HR told me this over the phone.

DeltaDelta

Wow! I thought that DFB would attract a lot more than that. Looks like I was being too optimistic!

cookie.monster

Choppy1916 wrote: »

Last recruitment for Waterford attracted 1000 approx. I went for it that time and HR told me this over the phone.

last time they recruited the competition was ran by publicjobs.ie not the council HR

DuckyFuzz

Anybody get anything at all yet?? 8 weeks now is it. Anybody who might be in the know?

DuckyFuzz

Spoke to HR. Apparently we should hear next week and then the testing will be three/four weeks from that time.

Brilliantly, if that is the case and I'm fortunate to make that stagethat's the week I'm on holidays!

Choppy1916

cookie.monster wrote: »

last time they recruited the competition was ran by publicjobs.ie not the council HR

I asked the kind lady in HR further on in the competition how many applied. She told me.

But what you say is correct.

Choppy1916

cookie.monster wrote: »

last time they recruited the competition was ran by publicjobs.ie not the council HR

I asked the kind lady in HR further on in the competition how many applied. She told me.

But what you say is correct.

BE_THE_HOKEY

Anyone hear any more about this or get any correspondence? it's a pretty slow process!

DuckyFuzz

No nothing here anyway! So much for the next week I was told on the 11th!!

DuckyFuzz

Another month on.. Don't suppose anyone has heard anything?

cookie.monster

not a single word!!!!

DuckyFuzz

Rang again today for the craic, as I didn't for the last 6 weeks.

"It'll be three weeks anyway, no date set for the psychometric tests yet"

I'll take that with a pinch of salt even..

cookie.monster

DuckyFuzz wrote: »

Rang again today for the craic, as I didn't for the last 6 weeks.

"It'll be three weeks anyway, no date set for the psychometric tests yet"

I'll take that with a pinch of salt even..

jaysus incredibly slow, its probably looking more like the new year then

BE_THE_HOKEY

Any further developments?

glic83

Was talking to 2 people I know going for this and they both got letters yesterday with a date in October for the physcometric test

cookie.monster

i got a response and it wasn't the response i was looking for, it said unsuccessful reason for not ticking endorsments/unendorsments drivers licence.
to say i'm gutted is and understatment. this is my third attempt in ten years and to miss one simple thing on the form. i must have let it blank coz i have no endorsments as i need my truck licence for my job

DuckyFuzz

Anyone any idea how many are doing the psychometric tests?

BE_THE_HOKEY

Hi slightly off topic but what type licence do u need? Anyone know off hand

DuckyFuzz

For the psychometric test? As far as I know just the normal B car licence. Don't think you needed the C or D for this recruitment.

cookie.monster

BE_THE_HOKEY wrote: »

Hi slightly off topic but what type licence do u need? Anyone know off hand

id imagine a full clean b class

DuckyFuzz

How did people find the psychometric tests?

Was it on just the Wednesday or a few days?

BE_THE_HOKEY

DuckyFuzz wrote: »

How did people find the psychometric tests?

Was it on just the Wednesday or a few days?

Tests were tough!
I only know of 2 test sittings on Wednesday morning up to dinnertime!

DuckyFuzz

Ya, was tough alright.

Hopefully now we'll hear in next few days.

BE_THE_HOKEY

Is anyone surprised that it's taking the full 2 weeks for results 😊

DuckyFuzz

BE_THE_HOKEY wrote: »

Is anyone surprised that it's taking the full 2 weeks for results 😊

haha exactly what I was thinking.

During my test, they were like "it could take 2 weeks but we should have it to you in 1 week".
Why even bother saying that?

Would it be that surprising if it didn't come tomorrow?

Did you know many/any doing it?

BE_THE_HOKEY

Only Know 2 others wouldn't be surprised if it didn't come tomorrow either! Anyway best of luck everyone I don't think I done well enuf this time!

DuckyFuzz

They came anyway but it just says the numbers, not if you make the next round or when we will find that out...

I did awfully anyway (i think? its kind of hard to judge) so I'm assuming I won't make next round.. Fingers crossed though.

BE_THE_HOKEY

Just average myself too fingers crossed maybe we'll get another bite @ the cherry.

cookie.monster

with the way this campaign is being handled by the HR dept of the council i'm sure they will pick the wrong people and it will be up again?

DuckyFuzz

[font=arial, sans-serif]I thought the psycometric test results would be given with the cutoff for interview - letting you know have you made it that far or not.[/font]

[font=arial, sans-serif]Fair enough a date for interview might be difficult to organise but a cutoff so that you know if your in or not surely is just a simple calculation based on the results from the testing company?[/font]

[font=arial, sans-serif]Obviously they aren't very comparable but it's already taken longer from application to this far (1 psycometric test) than it did for the entire process - initial application to panel numbers for DFB..[/font]

[font=arial, sans-serif]It is understandable I guess when you break it down - probably far less people working on it, smaller council and not as much of a rush on to get people in. It's just being in the dark is a pain.. [/font]

[font=arial, sans-serif]Realistically, you'd imagine interviews will be after Chistmas if letters don't go out in the next 2 weeks.[/font]

DuckyFuzz

Anybody do an interview last week?

iceage

Any word as to have positions been offered and if so how many?

TJHooker2016

Just to update, two Retained Firefighter got the roles i was told they are in the OBI training with the current class of DFB recruits.

cookie.monster

TJHooker2016 wrote: »

Just to update, two Retained Firefighter got the roles i was told they are in the OBI training with the current class of DFB recruits.

no surprise there then, same thing happened in 2013