Executive Officer within the DCEDIY 2023 (Staffline Comp)

pygmaliondreams

Hi,

Creating a separate thread for this as it is a separate open comp from the general CS wide one running at this moment. This will let us discuss the competition in a tidier fashion.

Applications closed yesterday but I haven't yet received any emails, same for everyone else?

turbodiesel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058319739/executive-officer-within-the-dcediy-2023-staffline-comp

Hiya, I'm currently a civil servant and don't recall seeing this mentioned in my dept. Was it an internal comp for DCEDIY?

pygmaliondreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121289612#Comment_121289612

It was an open competition done through Staffline, rather than PAS.

It would have been easy to miss I only knew about it because it was mentioned on another discussion here.

pygmaliondreams

Emails went out for the assessment this evening.

Best of luck to anybody taking part.

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121308334#Comment_121308334

Thank god for that - good luck to all, would really love to get placed in this department

IIRC invitations to go forward were after filtering out those who would not qualify?

Shar!

Has anyone yet did the assessments? Just wondering how they are. I absolutely hate numerical reasoning 🙈

hoping it isn't too difficult

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121312127#Comment_121312127

Just done the numerical - first 12ish were easy (or so I thought) - last 6ish were trickier and guesstimated a couple as running out of time

Got 100% in the sample test but those questions were very easy

The graphs and stuff in the questions is hard to read (or it could be just my old eyes) - had to get close to the screen for some to be able read them clearly

Shar!

I probably will be guessing most of them with my eyes closed 😂

I hate graphs, pie charts and percentages guess them all the time - but I am a till hopeful to be called on the open comp .

pygmaliondreams

Found the numerical fairly easy, the verbal I might've fumbled a little because I am tired however.

No biggie anyways because I'm on the open panel!

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121312748#Comment_121312748

The last 2 (or 3) questions I found difficult (crap nights sleep last night didn't help) but my brain was struggling to know how to calculate the percentage difference or something based on the cost and whatever it was

Will do the verbal reasoning one tomorrow which can be tricky questions (if I get a good nights sleep tonight)

Since they seem to be moving fast hoping to hear the results a week after it closes and maybe on to interviews quick and placement before Xmas - would be a nice present from Santa!

pygmaliondreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121312892#Comment_121312892

Yes staffline comps move incredibly quickly from my experience, I had applied for one as a CO (but didn't take it in the end) and it was about 3 months from application to start date. Anyone in the private sector would probably find that incredibly long though LOL.

channelsurfer2

Why do staffline run them? Can they not get any from PAS?

pygmaliondreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121313161#Comment_121313161

More urgent need maybe? I'm assuming all of these positions will end up being involved with accommodation and they probably don't want to wait to get to them when there's a lot of other EO vacancies around that will be filled by PAS

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121313225#Comment_121313225

You mean Ukranian rehoming? Hope there's more variety to it than that

pygmaliondreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121313250#Comment_121313250

IPAS is a large part of dcediy as far as I'm aware.

I'm sure there are other positions but that's where the focus likely is at this time.

Sunshine_and _rainbows

Is anyone familiar with the roles in IPAS? Would they have work from home and is it a call centre?

pygmaliondreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121313776#Comment_121313776

DCEDIY have up to 3 days WFH as far as I know, also says that on the document put out when applying for this comp.

If you're working with accommodation you'll almost definitely have to make calls to accommodation providers like hotels etc but it isn't like there'll be hundreds of asylum applicants calling your phone.

rosknight

Are you on camera completing these tests?

Sunshine_and _rainbows

Thanks for that, I must have missed the WFH mention in the documentation. I don’t mind making or receiving some calls but I’ve previously worked for a call centre and it’s not something I’d like to do again.

pygmaliondreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121314314#Comment_121314314

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121314336#Comment_121314336

Understandable, I'm under the impression that a call centre would just be full of COs though? I know there's a lot of crossover but surely EOs wouldn't be sat waiting for calls all day when they're needed for decision making.

Sunshine_and _rainbows

My old call centre in DSP was mostly COs but some EOs also. The EOs didn’t usually answer the calls but they did deal with the worst of the callers when things escalated, so they handled a lot of hostile callers.

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pygmaliondreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121314479#Comment_121314479

Yeah makes sense, same here where EOs will deal with the difficult ones, except we don't take phone calls where i am at all thankfully.

fritzelly

Anyone done the verbal yet? How does it compare to the PAS ones?

SouthWesterly

Who are staff line?

raheny red

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121317997#Comment_121317997

I had a brief look on their site earlier. Think they are a northern Irish recruitment crowd? Pretty sure I did an assessment test through them before for Fingal.

turbodiesel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121317997#Comment_121317997

Big enough company. they bought Grafton Recruitment back in 2018 - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-44906127

Overview of the company here - https://www.staffline.co.uk/about-us/the-company/introduction

SouthWesterly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121319110#Comment_121319110

Thanks. Never heard of them until last night

raheny red

Maybe I'm rusty but I found the numerical practise test quite tough :/ and that's usually my strong point.

Sunshine_and _rainbows

I agree, I found it harder than the recent EO tests I’ve done with PAS. The quality of the graphs was also tough to read and threw me a little.

pygmaliondreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121320067#Comment_121320067

the numerical wasnt too bad but the verbal i struggled a little with being so tired, i should've left it to the day after but i felt excited to get it done!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121320348#Comment_121320348

the graphs were not fantastic, i had 2 minutes left when i answered all the questions. I don't think you were able to go backwards either? I had a question I wasn't happy with my answer for but couldn't figure that out.

fritzelly

Just done the verbal reasoning one now - 30 questions, think I did alright but you never know with the wording of some of them if you are reading it correctly per the answers available.