Recruit Prison Officer 2019

irishgirl91

Recruit Prison Officer 2019 application on public jobs - opened 28/02/2019 and is closing on 21/03/2019

Dedicated thread for the 2019 application process so get posting guys & girls and good luck in your application

patrickpints

filling out my application, wonder how much weight is giving to the voluntary or community work question as there is nothing really I can put down for that?

private89

Am looking at the 2019 campaign.

m wondering if the background checks are the same or easier than for AGS? I have a few convictions (motoring and public order) and wondering if these would exclude me. I applied to AGS and got turned down. Just gone 30 so think I have "grown up" now.

Would coming from the Army help or is that a

po candidate

private89 wrote: »

Am looking at the 2019 campaign.

m wondering if the background checks are the same or easier than for AGS? I have a few convictions (motoring and public order) and wondering if these would exclude me. I applied to AGS and got turned down. Just gone 30 so think I have "grown up" now.

Would coming from the Army help or is that a

I'm not 100% on how strict it is compared to Gardai. I'm from 2018 and waiting on clearance at the moment. I remember in the 2018 thread a serving officer stated it wasnt as strict as he has colleagues he knew had been in trouble before joining and they got in no problem. He suggested that this wouldn't happen with the Gardai! Have a look at the start of the 2018 thread and you'll see a few asking about the clearance issue. Ultimately I would just apply if I were you and see how it goes.

irishgirl91

private89 wrote: »

Am looking at the 2019 campaign.

m wondering if the background checks are the same or easier than for AGS? I have a few convictions (motoring and public order) and wondering if these would exclude me. I applied to AGS and got turned down. Just gone 30 so think I have "grown up" now.

Would coming from the Army help or is that a

I would agree with po candidate to apply and see how it goes

Star hurl

Would anyone have an idea how much per Month after tax you would be taking home ? Also completed the appitude tests in 2016 and was very strong in job simulation but really struggled in the numerical section . Would that part still be the same or maybe it has changed again ? .

patrickpints

anyone do the interview last year? how difficult was it and how long roughly?

patrickpints

no idea on the tax question as everyones personal circumstances is different, would you clear 500 a week after tax?

billgibney

patrickpints wrote: »

no idea on the tax question as everyones personal circumstances is different, would you clear 500 a week after tax?

Including all allowances and built in overtime the starting pay is around 47000 per year

Bowrow

patrickpints wrote: »

anyone do the interview last year? how difficult was it and how long roughly?

The interview is the hardest part.
Just have your examples on the competencies and stick to answering the questions and you'll be fine.
I think it was about 20-30 mins

Bowrow

Star hurl wrote: »

Would anyone have an idea how much per Month after tax you would be taking home ? Also completed the appitude tests in 2016 and was very strong in job simulation but really struggled in the numerical section . Would that part still be the same or maybe it has changed again ? .

I narrowly missed out in 2016 and 're applied in 2018 and I now await on pct and medical.the 2016 was numerical reasoning but 2018 was Alot harder imo because it was a calculation test.do some study/grinds and you'll be fine

KBHC

billgibney wrote: »

Including all allowances and built in overtime the starting pay is around 47000 per year

Is this as a recruit Prison officer after your assigned a prison?? Or after 3 years when u become a prison officer??

raze_them_all_

KBHC wrote: »

Is this as a recruit Prison officer after your assigned a prison?? Or after 3 years when u become a prison officer??

Your assigned a prison after the initial 12 weeks, you become a prison officer on completion of college so after 3 years

Star hurl

So your talking about around 35 k for the first 3 years with Sunday's etc

Phillip k

patrickpints wrote: »

no idea on the tax question as everyones personal circumstances is different, would you clear 500 a week after tax?

You don't get as much over time as what they use to. Starting salary is 28,690 to 32,941

patrickpints

when filling in the application form, section A employment record do you have to include dates or just months you started jobs? how exact do you have to be?

po candidate

patrickpints wrote: »

when filling in the application form, section A employment record do you have to include dates or just months you started jobs? how exact do you have to be?

I put down month and year and it was no problem.

Bartholemew Mills

patrickpints wrote: »

when filling in the application form, section A employment record do you have to include dates or just months you started jobs? how exact do you have to be?

Only the months and year. You don't need the exact dates.

patrickpints

perfect thanks

patrickpints

any idea what they look into with previous employers? references?

Any advice for the supplementary information section?

Bartholemew Mills

patrickpints wrote: »

any idea what they look into with previous employers? references?

Any advice for the supplementary information section?

They won't be looking for references from previous employers until you pass the interview stage, at the very least.

As regards the supplementary information, simply add whatever you think may be relevant in support of your application. Perhaps you play sports (that shows that you're a team player), perhaps you train in martial arts (that shows that you're into fitness and you most likely know how to handle yourself in a situation), things like that. Be creative and tell them about yourself, there's no 'wrong' answers as such. Just make sure you're comfortable talking about the things that you mention as it may come up in the interview. Best of luck.

callum21

patrickpints wrote: »

anyone do the interview last year? how difficult was it and how long roughly?

I just did the interview a couple of weeks ago. I was in there for 50 mins, We were laughing and joking at the end of it too, Have good detailed answers related to previous employment and you will have nothing to worry about. Best of luck. Its such a long process.

JJss1988

Now that the closing date has passed what is the timeframe regarding the Online Tests?

niallerire

hey guys just a quick question. A friend of mine had been caught with a small amount of drugs but he didnt get a conviction, He stil wants to apply to the prion offers.. would it be woth his time? can any prison offier on this tell me what the vetting part it like??

po candidate

niallerire wrote: »

hey guys just a quick question. A friend of mine had been caught with a small amount of drugs but he didnt get a conviction, He stil wants to apply to the prion offers.. would it be woth his time? can any prison offier on this tell me what the vetting part it like??

Not a RPO however I should be starting training soon. Vetting takes a long time and it seems thorough although I'm not sure what they consider a serious problem, apparently it's not as difficult as the Garda recruitment vetting. I'm from 2018 campaign and in that forum there were a few posts at the start about vetting. Maybe have a look there! Ultimately there's no way of knowing for certain until you go through the process.

CplMick

niallerire wrote: »

hey guys just a quick question. A friend of mine had been caught with a small amount of drugs but he didnt get a conviction, He stil wants to apply to the prion offers.. would it be woth his time? can any prison offier on this tell me what the vetting part it like??

If you have a criminal conviction or have been on remand in prison even with out conviction then it is a waste of time applying you won't get in. As to somebody else who asked traffic offense's fall into different categories and there for it depends on the type of charge or conviction same with public order offense's...
Been caught with drugs and not been charged... Hmm while not a conviction it is suggestive of been a drug user which means compromised before even starting and while it may slip thru a security check you have to ask?? do you want to start a high pressure job dealing with scum who will try to compromise you from day one being already subject to a possible compromise???

Kellea

Has anyone heard back regarding the online assessments yet?

JJss1988

Kellea wrote: »

Has anyone heard back regarding the online assessments yet?

No I have not heard anything but maybe it is still a bit early?
I am not sure what the timelines are.

sazxox

Does anyone know how many initial jobs there are or is the 216 panel based??

CplMick

sazxox wrote: »

Does anyone know how many initial jobs there are or is the 216 panel based??

Most things with in the service are panel based so I would believe this recruitment drive will be the same.
If you get thru the process, you'd be placed on a panel then training course places will be offered to those on it till the panel is finished.
You may find for those high enough placed on the panel that you could end up in training with some those from the previous panel that is coming to an end.

CplMick

private89 wrote: »

Would coming from the Army help or is that a

A lot of Officers are ex P.D.F or R.D.F it does show you inclined to Public Service etc. so it can help yes especial if you've U.N. overseas time served.
If ex P.D.F. you can carry a portion of your service

Micks1988

Hi guys, I applied for the prison service the application closed last month haven't heard anything back. Anybody any idea of how long I'll be waiting to hear back thanks

irishgirl91

Micks1988 wrote: »

Hi guys, I applied for the prison service the application closed last month haven't heard anything back. Anybody any idea of how long I'll be waiting to hear back thanks

Hi. I'm not too sure when the aptitude testing will begin ( hopefully sometime soon ) just make sure your notifications are set up on public jobs. I applied last year and it was a few weeks between closing date and stage 1 if I can remember correctly..

CplMick

This maybe of interest to all of you hoping to join the service

http://trap.ncirl.ie/1780/1/joyceclarke.pdf

Best of luck with your application

irishgirl91

Assessment questionnaire invitation is open now guys .. you have until before noon on the Tuesday 9th to complete it

Abbey127

Hi does anyone know can they fail you on the Assessment questionnaire ?

po candidate

Abbey127 wrote: »

Hi does anyone know can they fail you on the Assessment questionnaire ?

Yes, you can fail it. I failed it before but I've no idea how or why. It's not something you can practice for. Make sure you read the familiarisation booklet and try answer the questions with the job description and the Competencies in mind. No hard and fast rule though, just answer the best you can! Best of luck.

CplMick

..... Assessment questionnaire .....

.... Do Not Have somebody else do it for you it will show up in the next part ....
.... And Yes People have tried it and been found out before ....
.... You Have Been informed ....

Best of Luck to all

Abbey127

po candidate wrote: »

Yes, you can fail it. I failed it before but I've no idea how or why. It's not something you can practice for. Make sure you read the familiarisation booklet and try answer the questions with the job description and the Competencies in mind. No hard and fast rule though, just answer the best you can! Best of luck.

Didn't know you could fail as they said there is no right or wrong answer . Thanks for the help

Bartholemew Mills

For those of you applying for the role, what are your reasons for doing so?
I'm genuinely interested to hear why people wish to join the Prison Service. It's well documented that it's a very difficult and stressful job with relatively low pay, at least for the early years of one's service. Is it security of tenure? The pension? Do you think you can make a positive influence in offenders' lives? All of the above?

CplMick

Bartholemew Mills wrote: »

For those of you applying for the role, what are your reasons for doing so?
I'm genuinely interested to hear why people wish to join the Prison Service. It's well documented that it's a very difficult and stressful job with relatively low pay, at least for the early years of one's service. Is it security of tenure? The pension? Do you think you can make a positive influence in offenders' lives? All of the above?

Can I ask why You are asking this first !!!!
Have you applied yourself or are you serving?

Thinking of Applying?

Doing some sort of Thesis into recruitment?
Or are you doing a Psychological course or something similar?
Your comment and Question's could seem very Loaded and Personal to a suspicious mind.

People deserve a more full statement of your Reason not Just "I'm genuinely interested to hear"


But I will give you My answer all of the above and none of the above My reason's at the time was not something I could explain even to Myself other then it Just seem the right thing for me.

sazxox

Just done the questionnaire - it seemed fairly straight forward which worries me now, especially if you can fail it which I didn't know!!

Anyways, after the aptitude deadline closes, anyone know a timeframe for results?

irishgirl91

sazxox wrote: »

Just done the questionnaire - it seemed fairly straight forward which worries me now, especially if you can fail it which I didn't know!!

Anyways, after the aptitude deadline closes, anyone know a timeframe for results?

I know what you mean I did it and it didnt seem that bad at all straight forward for sure.. but you just hope that your answers were good enough too at the same time..

ah i imagine if you pass and you are successful will be invited to sit the rest of the aptitude testing for stage 1 ( if its a fail for anyone surely they wouldnt be allowed to progress ) and the results will be given after the rest of those tests are completed .. it could be a few weeks give or take

irishgirl91

CplMick wrote: »

Can I ask why You are asking this first !!!!
Have you applied yourself or are you serving?

Thinking of Applying?

Doing some sort of Thesis into recruitment?
Or are you doing a Psychological course or something similar?
Your comment and Question's could seem very Loaded and Personal to a suspicious mind.

People deserve a more full statement of your Reason not Just "I'm genuinely interested to hear"


But I will give you My answer all of the above and none of the above My reason's at the time was not something I could explain even to Myself other then it Just seem the right thing for me.

eagerly waiting for his reply here

sazxox

The aptitude tests are out

irishgirl91

Best of luck in stage 1 everyone!

Deadline is 12 noon Wednesday 17th 2019

Star hurl

I gather that if you recieved an invitation for the appitude that you passed the questionare... ?

sazxox

Star hurl wrote: »

I gather that if you recieved an invitation for the appitude that you passed the questionare... ?

I thought everyone gets the aptitude tests weather they pass the questionnaire or not no?

po candidate

Star hurl wrote: »

I gather that if you recieved an invitation for the appitude that you passed the questionare... ?

Not Quite ! The questionnaire is done separately to the aptitude tests but everyone is invited to both. The results of the questionnaire are not reviewed until the aptitudes are done then the results are out at the same time for all. In the results you'll be provided with your score, the minimum score required and the If you passed or not.

starstothesun

Aptitute Completed! Just felt With maths hadnt enough time to calculate and get the answer! Anyone know with the three sections to the aptotude test are they all counted or just Verbal and Job Sim? And is there a certain pass rate that has to he got on each one or is it and overall mark? Im just feeling the maths let me down!

daniel1390

Ye 100%agree did mine there this morning the maths one not enough time in that section