Temporary Clerical Officer in Civil Service 2022

2021_AP

Just announced on publicjobs.ie Facebook page that 2022 TCO will open this Thursday 14th October

No link as I'm too new still

Beckett99

Will be applying for sure. Had a high OOM this year but no offer. You never know how it'll go!

I am me123

For those who completed a TCO minimum contract of the 8 weeks previously, and did not recieve another contract after this, did you have much success in subsequent TCO campaigns, regarding obtaining HEO references?

furrybones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118014229#Comment_118014229

A lot of departments don't give references. Instead, they give a record of service letter. That's all I had from a previous TCO placement and it was accepted when I was placed on the 2020 panel.

furrybones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058212684/temporary-clerical-officer-in-civil-service-2022

Link - https://www.publicjobs.ie/en/index.php?option=com_jobsearch&view=jobdetails&Itemid=263&cid=143396&campaignId=21292805

I am me123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118017647#Comment_118017647

Thank you!

To obtain this would you just contact your HEO in your section?

What is included in a record of service letter usually?

furrybones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118021526#Comment_118021526

Contact the HR department and ask if they will issue a reference. If they won't then ask them for a record of service letter which will simply state that you worked there from xdate to xdate.

I am me123

Will a 'record of service' of the previous TCO contract completed suffice for the 2022 TCO campaign or do they need an actual performance based reference?

furrybones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118021675#Comment_118021675

I honestly couldn't tell you. It might be best to contact the email address given for the 2022 campaign to ask if they'll accept a record of service as a reference. I had a reference from another job that was less than 3 years old so they accepted that with the record of service.

I am me123

Thanks. I've sent off an email to above address so will wait & see what I am told..😊

PinkLady2016

I applied again this time around. Just completed an 8 week TCO. Very short really. They said that it may be extended but it never was.

furrybones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118041418#Comment_118041418

Best of luck with it, I just put mine in too.

The 8 week contracts are so frustrating, you're barely in the door when you're out again. Learning anything is impossible.

I am me123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118041530#Comment_118041530

Totally agree with you on that. 😊

PinkLady2016

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118041530#Comment_118041530

Yes they are very short contracts. Took it on because the guy hiring said it maybe extended and Im sorry that I did. Because like that I was just in when I was going again. I got 2 days of training and then I was in the office on my own literally for 2 weeks while the woman showing me was away on holidays. They gave me a laptop to work from home and I was expected to know it all by then. Crazy I got this feeling that they only took me on to cover while she was on holidays.

Meanman

Anyone recall when we will get the link to the exam? I can't recall and the information is gone off the system. Thanks

Mrs OBumble

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118085292#Comment_118085292

Of course they only took you on to cover while she was on holidays: covering leave is pretty much the entire purpose of TCO contracts.

Vologda69

I know three TCOs on my floor taken on in DSP in the last year who have been made permanent, so it's nonsense to suggest you can't be made permanent.

Mrs OBumble

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118092761#Comment_118092761

I believe the 2020 panel was the first one where that was even possible: prior to that, people from the temporary panel simply could not be appointed to permanent positions.

I am also led to believe that it's still pretty rare. Perhaps more likely in DSP and possibly Revenue, because they aren't such popular places to be assigned.

Nigel Fairservice

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118092761#Comment_118092761

I was taken on permanently by my department when I was a TCO but I was going through the permanent CO competition as well while I was working there during my TCO contract. My department just requested I was assigned to them when the process was all over.

It's the luck of the draw with TCO contracts. Some people only get 8 weeks. I know one person that worked nearly 4 years on a TCO contract.

Meanman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118091551#Comment_118091551

Anyone be able to answer this?

furrybones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118097912#Comment_118097912

This is from the booklet.

furrybones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118092761#Comment_118092761

They were most likely on the CO panel and the DSP took them from that.

Meanman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118097980#Comment_118097980

Many thanks Furrybones

The_Kew_Tour

Good stuff

I am me123

Are you emailed with a link to the online questionnaire when it goes live or how do you access it? ( I've forgotten from last time, sorry 😛.

Thank you

furrybones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118108207#Comment_118108207

You should get a message on Public Jobs with the link to the assessment.

I am me123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118108788#Comment_118108788

Thanks very much for that furrybones. I think you normally get an email alerting you that there is a message on your Public Jobs messageboard also, if I remember correctly. 😊

furrybones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118110511#Comment_118110511

You do, and if you've signed up for it you can also get a text message to alert you.

Beckett99

Find the scenario questions hard to answer every year.

PinkLady2016

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118092671#Comment_118092671

yeah you are right. its for covering leave . Although previously I took a TCO with HSE because there was a vacant role there and i was there for 15 months, But they let me go to take someone on from the panel if I was on it I would have been considered considering I worked there already and they were pleased with my work. I had applied to the 2017 CO panel but never called for interview because there was a freeze on it.

furrybones

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