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Garda Recruitment Stage 4 (2018 Campaign)
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deniseecath wrote: »I think I musty have annoyed HRM enough.
I emailed on the 9th of January and was told my file was still undergoing vetting. So I emailed again today just to see and was met with a reply "We acknowledge your email and will be in touch in due course." Suffice to say, that didn't answer my initial query, so I replied asking them if my file was still undergoing vetting. That was at 15.10 today and by 15.58 HRM emailed me and offered me induction at Templemore on the 20th of January.
I accepted and rang my boss to explain my short notice right away. But I'm lucky enough in my current employment that they understand; they knew this was coming down the pipeline at some stage.
So for anyone still waiting, I literally just kept emailing HRM every two-ish weeks until they got fed up with me!
That's brilliant! Congratulations!
I've completed pct (failed on push and pull machine at first too
) and medical around the same time like you and also kept calling them nearly every two weeks to see about vetting...got the offer for 20th too 0 -
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What about only getting 6 weeks notice to do the test when told it would be 12 weeks or have you any idea would that be a valid reason?
I'm not sure whether that would suffice or not. I originally applied in the 2017 - I ended up failing the PCT first time (beep test and push/pull). I must have fallen through the paperwork cracks because by the time they had called me to do the PCT retest it had been more than 12 months since I'd completed a medical (seven-ish months after the PCT itstelf) and I was given around two weeks notice of it. I was told that I could not change this date as it was my PCT retest.
I also told them that I had suffered a fall in work that had me certed out for 3 weeks (slipped on a wet floor). I explained this to the college and explained that it had been more than 12 months since I'd had my medical with the chief medical officer in Dublin. They told me it was still fine.
I went ahead and did the retest and ended up failing the beep test by about 2 or 3 runs of my level. One of the instructors pulled me aside and told me to appeal given the fact that they'd forgotten about me for so long and I technically didn't have a medical done within the 12 months, and I'd verbally told them that I'd doubted my own capability to do it given I'd been certed out of work etc.
The instructor stressed that you have grounds for an appeal if you feel you have been treated unfairly - or if you were ill that day (ie. get a letter from you GP afterwards that states you have flu/virus/vomiting bug etc that may have affected your performance on that day).
I wrote the letter when I got home detailing how I felt I had grounds for appeal as I had been essentially forgotten about for more than 6 months which made keeping up my training extremely hard. Along with my medical being out of date, my lack of notice for the PCT retest and the language used in the email made me feel that I had no choice but to show up even though my medical was not in date. Coupled with my fall in work I was surprised that I was not asked to see my own GP for a clearance form when I had clearly stated this before showing up at the college.
Long story short, I got an email back a week later from HRM telling me that they were 'reviewing' the appeal process and at the moment my appeal didn't meet the grounds required for appeal.
.... if all that didn't meet grounds for appeal, I'm not sure what will. But go ahead, write your email and send a printed letter too. Just maybe go with that you feel you were treated unfairly as the lack of notice made it difficult to attend the PCT and the language of the email/response you received put you under duress as you felt you would be excluded from the campaign if you did not do it and that you feel very strongly that if you were given a date further away you would have had more time to personally prepare for the PCT.
Just be aware that the notice time for appeal PCTs can be as little as a week or up to 12 weeks, hope that's helpful 0
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