EO ICT Infra job offer. Which department to choose?

MaxPayneXL

Hi Guys,
I have been shortlisted for EO ICT vacancy in the recent open competition.

Can anyone please suggest from the following one of the best places to work from the following list.

1. Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine


2. Office of the Revenue Commissioners


3. Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection


4. Department of Foreign Affairs

Appreciate any help.

billyhead

MaxPayneXL wrote: »

Hi Guys,
I have been shortlisted for EO ICT vacancy in the recent open competition.

Can anyone please suggest from the following one of the best places to work from the following list.

1. Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine


2. Office of the Revenue Commissioners


3. Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection


4. Department of Foreign Affairs

Appreciate any help.

Revenue imo

MaxPayneXL

Any idea about "Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade"?

blue_blue

MaxPayneXL wrote: »

Any idea about "Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade"?

Is this comp from last November? Don’t think Foreign Affairs are part of that.

MaxPayneXL

Yes, I just got a phone call mentioning the various departments and Dept of Foreign Affairs is one among them.

billyhead

MaxPayneXL wrote: »

Any idea about "Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade"?

Wouldn't know about Dfa. I worked in Revenue It before and it's a very fast moving progressive modern work environment.

posy2010

Are you sure you get to pick? We were all just told what department we were going to in last competition

Dothehustle

MAX you dont to choose you will be assigned to one of the dept. it can also be diffrent from the ones listed as i know my office has put in for a EO/ICT from this panel
If i had the option it would be Revenue hands down

pawrick

If you have a choice, Revenue for career opportunities/experience imo according to friends who have worked there. DFA could give you travel opportunities depending on the exact area in IT you are assigned as sometimes they need IT people to do some travel to set up offices etc. or the larger locations may require full time IT support staff. Not sure how their IT is these days but they had some projects with the passport side in the past.

Also consider office locations, being based around the green may be nicer compared to possibly being stuck over bus aras with social protection HQ.

MaxPayneXL

posy2010 wrote: »

Are you sure you get to pick? We were all just told what department we were going to in last competition

Yes, I was phoned up and told to pick an option. I replied to send me the options. So I got the above options via email. Have to choose one by this weekend and convey that via email.

MaxPayneXL

My choice would be either Revenue or DFA.

Also I prefer a small / medium office rather than supporting 1000's of people.

Also dont like travel.

MaxPayneXL

Any inputs welcome.

Caledonia

Foreign Affairs.

MaxPayneXL

Caledonia wrote: »

Foreign Affairs.

Any reason for suggesting DFA?

Halloween Jack

I work in revenue OP, and have done for the last couple of years, I generally find it a good place to work, plenty of scope for upward movement over the next few years too as I believe something g like 50% of ALL Staff are due to retire in the next 5-7 years.

On the IT side I know some of them are based on George’s street and some are based in john’s road down by heuston.

I’m not too into tech stuff but there always appear to be interesting IT projects on the go.

Revenue have tonnes of data and they are always looking for ways to use it for compliance etc

You could do worse anyway. Hope it’s of some use.

MaxPayneXL

Any idea about the work load at Agriculture?

iPhone.

OP, what did you go for in the end?

MaxPayneXL

iPhone. wrote: »

OP, what did you go for in the end?

Revenue

References / Garda Vetting / Original Educational Qualifications validation checks etc happening now. Might take some time to finish all this.

Any one in the same situation?

posy2010

Pay is just so crap as an EO. Going to ditch it myself. Good luck to you

MaxPayneXL

Heard that Revenue is very busy always. Any one of you working at Revenue?

Is the working hours at revenue 9.00 am to 5.00 pm?

rostalof

MaxPayneXL wrote: »

Heard that Revenue is very busy always. Any one of you working at Revenue?

Is the working hours at revenue 9.00 am to 5.00 pm?

I worked in IT in Revenue and continue to work there in another division & location now. Work in the IT division is wide and varied, development, live support, testing, databases, networks etc, it's all done in-house (technically), so theres plenty of scope. The hours are the same as in any civil service dept/office with flexi-time.

Start anytime between 8 and 10am , lunch anytime between 12.30pm and 2.30pm and finish anytime after 4pm, but you must work your 39.5 hours a week less half hour lunch each day.

That said, you can't start at 10am go on lunch at 12.30 to 2.30pm and go home again at 4pm everyday or you'd have only worked 20 hours at the end of the week. You could work these hours one day, and start at 8am the next day, take a half hour lunch and work until 7pm to make up the hours.

If you want flxebility in your working hours, it's the way to go!

Soldah

MaxPayneXL wrote: »

Hi Guys,
I have been shortlisted for EO ICT vacancy in the recent open competition.

Can anyone please suggest from the following one of the best places to work from the following list.

1. Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine


2. Office of the Revenue Commissioners


3. Department of Employment Affairs and  Social Protection


4. Department of Foreign Affairs

Appreciate any help.

1. First chose Food and the Marine take this job for your best career and you are British or Italian or something else in Europe ??

MaxPayneXL

Any one started working as EO ICT role any where?

I have finished my garda vetting / references. Was told to wait for the communication from HR of the concerned dept.

Any one else in the same situation?

Juak

Yes I have started in july. It took very long time for everything to come through tho