Cork County Council Clerical Officer 2017

Mokuba

Cork County Council have a clerical officer campaign closing this Friday, May 5th.

I presume these positions give you access to the Executive Officer roles etc. down the line?

www.yourcouncil.ie

trafficlight

Has anyone heard anything on this yet? any update on when the aptitude tests will be?

Roger Hassenforder

Mokuba wrote: »

Cork County Council have a clerical officer campaign closing this Friday, May 5th.

I presume these positions give you access to the Executive Officer roles etc. down the line?

www.yourcouncil.ie

It's entry level on the administrative side, existing (and last) county manager started life back in the day as a CO AFAIK, worked their way up.

Patg2017

Anyone else get an email about online assessment?

samsmum

I got an email today, must try the practice tests later!

trafficlight

Anyone do the online tests yet? are they the same as the practice ones?

corkonian41

Tests where ok, wait and see now!

vector

corkonian41 wrote: »

Tests where ok, wait and see now!

The pattern recognition test was hard in my opinion.

corkonian41

vector wrote: »

The pattern recognition test was hard in my opinion.

Yeah, I found that the most difficult too.

PhuckHugh

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

It's entry level on the administrative side, existing (and last) county manager started life back in the day as a CO AFAIK, worked their way up.

What salary are we talking?

Roger Hassenforder

PhuckHugh wrote: »

What salary are we talking?

CO:
Grade 3 – Clerical Officer/Library Assistant
(Entry)22,893 – 24,397 – 24,768 – 25,520 – 26,616 – 27,717 – 28,817 – 29,912 – 30,980 – 32,045 – 32,800 – 33,857 – 34,919 – 36,919 – 38,3391
(from)

yenom

That test was odd enough. It was like a game of Sudoku in one of them.

tinad

Completed the test last Friday. If by some chance I make it through to interview, panel and job offer, does anyone know if the county positions are offered first or city? If you get offered a position and decline due to geographical reasons are you taken off the panel?

Roger Hassenforder

tinad wrote: »

Completed the test last Friday. If by some chance I make it through to interview, panel and job offer, does anyone know if the county positions are offered first or city? If you get offered a position and decline due to geographical reasons are you taken off the panel?

they're separate panels
If you decline one, you're off that panel.
but by accepting one, you're not off the other, you can keep your options open. Its not a common panel (one argument for merging them!)

i'd say going by how advanced their respective recruitment campaigns are, City will be making offers first.

Samjd

Just wondering where this was advertised? Is there an email alert I could sign up to? Thanks

tinad

Samjd wrote: »

Just wondering where this was advertised? Is there an email alert I could sign up to? Thanks

It was advertised on cork county council recruitment page.

samsmum

I found the test odd too, sudoku was a good description! Does anyone know when we find out how we did?

KCAccidental

definitely sudoku like alright. Now to play the waiting game!

yenom

Did the city recruit yet?

JKerova1

Wonder how long we will be waiting and if there will be further tests? The S.O. comp a while back was v slow.

fin12

I got an extension to the deadline to do the aptitude test's but I've been really exhausted the last few days so I missed that deadline as well which was by midnight last night, I just did them now this morning, does anyone think my test answers will be accepted, seeing as I was still able to go into the link and do the exam.

fin12

Just wondering did the people who completed the test before the deadline, did he receive an email from the county council?

al67

fin12 wrote: »

Just wondering did the people who completed the test before the deadline, did he receive an email from the county council?

I did the assessment on Friday of last week and didn't receive any confirmation email - just said each segment was completed as I went along.

samsmum

Same here, no email confirmation to say completed.

trafficlight

does anyone know what take home pay will be once tax, PRSI, PRD, pension etc is deducted??

yenom

trafficlight wrote: »

does anyone know what take home pay will be once tax, PRSI, PRD, pension etc is deducted??

About 350 a week?

Mishafein

Anyone hear anything about when the results will be out?

Patg2017

No didn't hear anything it normally takes two to three weeks.

tinad

Just got called for the supervised assessments next week. How many are being called I wonder?

fin12

tinad wrote: »

Just got called for the supervised assessments next week. How many are being called I wonder?

Was that by email or on the phone?

trafficlight

Well done. Did they give you the results of the online tests?

yenom

tinad wrote: »

Just got called for the supervised assessments next week. How many are being called I wonder?

Me too but I'll be on holidays. Hopefully they'll let me do it another day.

tinad

trafficlight wrote: »

Well done. Did they give you the results of the online tests?

No results. Just time and place for next round.

tinad

fin12 wrote: »

Was that by email or on the phone?

Email at 1044 this morning

trafficlight

thanks for the info... where are they taking place by the way?

tinad

trafficlight wrote: »

thanks for the info... where are they taking place by the way?

Griffith College

KCAccidental

Got called myself for the supervised test. I think in the email it said that they aim to have results by 29th July.

JKerova1

KCAccidental wrote: »

Got called myself for the supervised test. I think in the email it said that they aim to have results by 29th July.

Wonder why I got no email...surely they would tell you if you failed.

honerbright

JKerova1 wrote: »

Wonder why I got no email...surely they would tell you if you failed.

Mine was in my junk email folder, did you check there?

fin12

Got email today after 2pm saying I had surpassed the pass mark but I have not been selected to supervised testing at this time but may be called in the future.

Actually it's really nice of them to even keep me in the competition seeing as I missed the deadline to do the exam twice.

tinad

I rang recruitment yesterday and all the positions to be filled are county based. Never thought to ask how many positions they are going to fill in total.

trafficlight

why if we surpassed the pass mark would we not be taken through to the next stage? doesn't seem fair really..

Roger Hassenforder

trafficlight wrote: »

why if we surpassed the pass mark would we not be taken through to the next stage? doesn't seem fair really..

are they taking the top %iles?

yenom

tinad wrote: »

I rang recruitment yesterday and all the positions to be filled are county based. Never thought to ask how many positions they are going to fill in total.

What do you mean by 'county based'? Nothing for the county hall like?

tinad

yenom wrote: »

What do you mean by 'county based'? Nothing for the county hall like?

Apparently not. First he told me positions were only for county hall but he needed to clarify with a supervisor, then got back to me and said none for county hall just around the county. He still didnt sound 100% though so if you want to try ringing you might get more clarification.

yenom

tinad wrote: »

yenom wrote: »

What do you mean by 'county based'? Nothing for the county hall like?

Apparently not. First he told me positions were only for county hall but he needed to clarify with a supervisor, then got back to me and said none for county hall just around the county. He still didnt sound 100% though so if you want to try ringing you might get more clarification.

Era, I'll see how I get on. If I have to buy a car then so be it.

tinad

To those who have been called for supervised assessments..... Is it Thursday you have been called for? Just wondering is it one day or more it's going on for?

honerbright

tinad wrote: »

To those who have been called for supervised assessments..... Is it Thursday you have been called for? Just wondering is it one day or more it's going on for?

I have mine tomorrow!

samsmum

Mine is Wednesday.

yenom

tinad wrote: »

To those who have been called for supervised assessments..... Is it Thursday you have been called for? Just wondering is it one day or more it's going on for?

Thursday.

tinad

Best of luck to everyone sitting the assessments over the next few days.!!!