Clerical Officer in Waterford Council

I applied for it too - I know as much as you do! Just the standard email telling us they'd be in touch in due course regarding the aptitude tests.

I'm hoping it'll be within the next fortnight anyway. When I applied for the Clerical Officer in the Civil service, it was almost exactly a month between submitting my application and getting the aptitude test, so fingers crossed these roles work around the same timelines.

I'd love to know how many applied!

deise_girl wrote: »

Yeah I applied to that too, I was sick for the supervised tests though and really messed them up Hoping that this is my second chance!

I hate how drawn out these things are, wish they could just start the assessments and give the results out right away!!

I know, they really take their time, don't they? I actually did ok on the supervised test, but I wouldn't say there's a whole lot of positions in Waterford (compared to say Dublin), so I'm not holding my breath for an interview any time soon.

How did you find the WCC application form? I thought it was a bitch compared to the civil service one. Took me hours to fill out!

deise_girl wrote: »

Do you think they'll weed many out on the basis of the application? Atleast with the civil service everyone had a chance at the tests.

Well what I took from the auto reply email was that everyone that applied would receive the date of the aptitude test in due course.

I'd say of those that pass that and then pass the numerical/verbal reasoning/error checking, the application will then come into play when inviting people for interview. It's really unchartered territory for me though, as it does seem slightly different from the way the civil service do things. I've also heard the pass rate for the numerical/verbal reasoning and error checking are stricter than the CS.

If we do well, it'll be nice not having to travel to Dublin for each stage though!

Me neither. They're really dragging it out now.

I asked in the Limerick CC Clerical Officer thread over on the Work & Jobs forum how long they were waiting, just to get an idea of timeframes and got this reply:

Expression of interest was in mid Nov & we received an email on 21st Dec inviting us to the test in early Jan... Christmas in the middle may have delayed things for us, hopefully you won't have to wait as long for your test. It was 3 weeks later we received our test results and nothing yet for the next stage... hope this helps and best of luck to you!

So, it seems they were waiting around 5/6 weeks from application stage to being invited to the test - we're waiting a good bit longer than that at this stage. Submissions of application closed on 13 January and nothing further almost 2 months later. I haven't a notion what's taking them so long, tbh.

deise_girl wrote: »

Yeah like it's a bit much really.. Why bother have the closing date so long ago if you're not going to follow up on it?
I keep thinking I'm just not on their mailing list somehow, that I've been forgotten!
The amount of time they're taking probably says a lot about the number of vacancies that they have

Lots of vacancies, since they don't have any clerical staff to administer this competition...?!

Hi Guys,

Do you have any links for practice tests? I googled "aptitude test" and started doing a few of those but I'm looking to see if there's any specific ones for city council jobs.

Thanks

Fair play to those who got to 30 in the Clerical checking...I only managed 23!! Was concentrating on accuracy rather than timing myself. Think the clerical checking may have goosed up my chances. 7 minutes is crazy given the amount of detail you have to check.

The verbal was fine, finished all those, but I ran out of time on the last four questions in the numerical, although I found the numerical far easier than previous civil/public service tests.

Quite surprised when the guy said that only just over 500 had applied for the jobs...that's far less than I expected. Still don't reckon I reached the standard to advance to interview, but sure it's all practice I guess.