Eligibility query

oscillation

Hi everyone, just wondering if I am eligible to apply to open competition roles in civil service while I am currently a civil servant and still on probation please?

Conqueror

Yes

readoutloud

Yes, absolutely. Your probation will most likely revert back to the start again though.

pygmaliondreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122734703#Comment_122734703

Only if you change grades, it shouldn't if you stick to the same grade. Someone on my current team had 8 months in another office as an EO and it's been carried over… Speak to HR before accepting the position and all that I suppose.

Newbie12345The

Simlar - ive asked in the co2024 campaign - im a civil servant for the last number of years, im having an interview now - i want to move basciallly back from Dublin to nearer to home. Do i have to go to probation again and will i be still on the same point on scale/penson or do i revert back to point 1

readoutloud

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122735472#Comment_122735472

I had heard that any entrant through an open competition automatically restarts their probation.

Perhaps this is only when it's the same grade, but different my role / job title (ie: IGEES AO moving to general stream AO).

billyhead

Its only right you commence probation from day 1 again irrespective of if you remain the same grade but for example are moving to a specialist role.