Clerical Officer 2020

Denise McEvoy wrote: »

Did anyone get any results for Laois & Offaly?

My daughter got results for Laois/Offaly. Into the 500's so not looking good, although she was in the top 30 for TCO, it's baffling tbh

laoisgem wrote: »

My daughter got results for Laois/Offaly. Into the 500's so not looking good, although she was in the top 30 for TCO, it's baffling tbh

TCO is good to get, the experience will be invaluable in interviews later.
A working knowledge of SAP (if her department uses it) is great to have as well.

fergald wrote: »

My wife got number 1 for Laois and Kildare. However she was no 13 on EO for Laois well over a year now and still did not get called for interview.

That's amazing well done to your wife, I hope she gets a call soon.

1670 in Dublin... I won't pop champagne corks. I know someone from the last time who was around the 1400s and they waited 6 months for an interview

laoisgem wrote: »

My daughter got results for Laois/Offaly. Into the 500's so not looking good, although she was in the top 30 for TCO, it's baffling tbh

Not baffling at all.

The score is not about how good you are. It's about where you stand relative to other candidates who applied for this competition, in this location.

Only PAS know what the ranking is done on. Obviously the questionnaire. But what else they take into account, eg work-experience (it is good or bad to have some), other software you've used, qualifications, previous TCO experience, previous CO experience.

Non-Dublin counties will likely have candidates with substantial CO experience who want to move closer to home. These people won't be in the TCO competitions.

Is there a way of finding out how many applied for each county?

Pasterickers wrote: »

Thanks very much for your reply. Has this been officially said somewhere do you know?

It says on the results email
"Candidates will be contacted regarding Stage 2- Interview as vacancies arise in accordance with their order of merit. Please note that candidates will only be invited to sit Stage 2- Interview once, irrespective of the location choices applied for."

PinkLady2016 wrote: »

I got 400s for both. Not holding out much hope on getting a job as I am fairly down on the list

I didn’t do much better in the 300s, bare in mind though that most people who apply for Meath apply for Louth aswell so they are on both panels so your 400 could be more like 200.

Did anyone notice that the booklet says there wont be anyone used off this panel after May 2021?

Denise McEvoy wrote: »

Did anyone get any results for Laois & Offaly?

I got results for Offaly about 6pm yesterday.

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I was number 4 in my area in 2014, 2 in 2016, currently 1 in the 2018 panel yet here I am ranked 200 for 2020.

Well I hope you get something on co 2018 what counties do you have? I was 300+ in co 2018 Louth/ Meath and waiting 2 years and a very slim chance getting it lol. Meath panel haven't moved for at least 2 months. So placed 120+ this time could potentially be placed in 1 year based on panel 2018?!

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I was number 4 in my area in 2014, 2 in 2016, currently 1 in the 2018 panel yet here I am ranked 200 for 2020.

Just in reference to changing ranks and all that...

When I left college initially I thought it was a very good idea to scope out the civil service, applied for lots of the competitions at all different levels. Put in some serious effort too, not messing around, actually studied quite intensively in the run up to different stages. I still get notifications of jobs of course and with a whole lot of extra time at present I thought I'd give these exams a bash for "old times sake" :P

Heres my takeaway on quite a bit of experience with these exams...

1) As soon as any of the "rank this question/response" type of stuff comes up you may as well buy a lotto ticket. It is essentially random outside the very few completely obvious questions.

"You fall into a vat of boiling oil, would you....
A) email your supervisor, even though he is dead
email some random supervisor in Limerick
C) Apply for a scholarship

Yeah, you can argue theres some reasoning to them, but the correct answers are so nebulous as to be near random. And considering one or two questions can make a difference of hundreds of places in the ranking...

2) The math and logic based exams are very fair and it is worth practicing material beforehand. However, there are so few questions compared to the amount of people doing them, again, one or two extra incorrect answers is enough to obliterate your chances.

3) The entire process of these campaigns often take vast amounts of time. You could well be waiting over a year to get anywhere.

4) *take with a pinch of salt* I had strong reasons in the past to believe that a bunch of people were getting specific "advice" on what to answer in the questionnaires and such from people in the know, cough cough applicants of family members working in certain areas :P

Its amusing to see that the process is just as random as ever having gotten the results from these exams. I have been at the very top and very bottom of these campaigns, with no difference in effort.

To sum up, ESPECIALLY for those just starting to look into these civil service type campaigns, whatever you do, do not have any sort of reliance on these jobs coming up. You could say the same thing about any job, but these are several magnitudes lower in terms of chances of success.

Apply for them when they come up, put in an effort, immediately forget about them and treat them as lottery tickets and not proper job applications, and don't be shocked when you place 1st or 7000th.

It was the fella above that said he's awful dismayed about the result and not sure what to do next that struck me. I remember having similar feelings! Well, if you didn't win the lottery you wouldn't feel let down, and that's the right attitude to bring to these things too.

ellieh1 wrote: »

Tipperary

I got results for Tipp. That was my second choice.

Johnnythefox4 wrote: »

538 OOM for Limerick. Reckon that’s me done

I was over 1100 from the 2018 panel and got offered a position in Limerick so I wouldn’t worry