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Mobility - Where to?

  • 06-10-2024 1:31am
    #1
    job seeker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,119 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I am currently looking to transfer department through mobility.

    I am a PCO and would like to move/transfer to Dublin. Which departments would be good to add to my mobility application? I don't want to have to work shifts so Monday to Friday 8-4 or 9-5 hours are a must. I'd be open to most departs apart from Court service & AGS.

    If you have any suggestions at all I would love to hear them. Thanks a million.



Comments

  • #2
    FunkyChicken24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭FunkyChicken24


    Firstly, what is a PCO, do you mean a CO or a PO?

    Anyway, I think having a look at the mobility map and see which departments have the longest queues for mobility for your grade, is a good place to start. There is no point in adding some departments if the chances are you won't get a place for several years. Unless of course you are really interested in one department and willing to wait that one out but obviously you might need to put the others on hold for that one or just be really on the ball about the timeframes around offers etc or you could end up back at the beginning.

    I would read up on the work done by the different departments in Dublin and work out from that which ones have less public-facing, operational units, so less chance of needing to work weekends or late shifts. I would think places like the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Office of Government Procurement, DPER, that sort of thing might be safer options, although they probably all have the odd unit that require more public-facing, irregular hours, so I think it will always be a gamble.



  • #3
    Nigel Fairservice
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,322 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    You must be one of the only civil servants wanting to move to Dublin at CO grade. There's a lot of COs waiting years to transfer out of Dublin

    Justice (immigration control) work shifts as do some parts of Revenue (customs).



  • #4
    Lauras5839
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭Lauras5839


    Prison Service CO? I've been where you are, Dublin is a good idea for Mobility at least for the fact that it will move quicker than panels down the country. I agree with the above about reading up on the Departments but if you're just looking to get out of where you are then put the larger departments as your choices. Keep on applying for general competitions as well, they can move much quicker than Mobility, that's how I moved in the end

    Also nobody without prison service experience will have a clue what you mean when you say PCO, just go with CO it's easier for clarity :D



  • #5
    job seeker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,119 ✭✭✭job seeker


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122689665#Comment_122689665

    As below, its a CO in the irish prison service. I see what you mean. I will have a look at te mobility map indeed, thank you. I appreaciate your advice. In regards to the offers. You really have to have your eyes peel for emails.

    Reading up on the departments is a decent shout too, I'll do that too thank you!

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122689871#Comment_122689871

    Yeah you see the better half lives in Dublin with family. My plan was to move to Dublin and that we would move in wih her family. Although her family is looking to buy a house next year. So I was try to make a plan that would enable me to do this.However, if I move to dublin move in with her and her family and they then buy a house down the country some where, I will be left scrambling looking for accomidation. Whic would be far less tan ideal. Before creating this thread I didnt realise that the waiting list was as long to get out of Dublin. So I am not sure what I should do now.

    Apoligies, I was looking for departments that were on a 9-5 Monday to Friday sort of workshift. I am working these hours and I would't fancy goin back to shift work. Thanks for your reply none the less.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122689939#Comment_122689939

    Yes indeed, I am out the country now. So there is no Saturday or evening shifts so its grand for now. I am appling for the open competitons too. I was in for tis years EO and I just missed out by 50 point in the first stage. Although I just feel like I need more practice at these. Thanks for your reply.



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