Clerical Officer 2020

Montageofhell wrote: »

I know someone who's been offered an interview for this clerical officer role. They have to fill out some form with their experience. They want to know how thorough are the checks on past employment, they are filling in a gap or two with adding a couple of months to employment that was finished. For example, they worked in office A for a year, started in office B 3 months later, they've adjusted A to say they worked right up to when they started in B. Does anyone know about the checks they'll do for the civil service?

Usually it's your last two employers are contacted. They can check others. They don't care about gaps in your employment like some private companies do, you're better off being honest.

Guffy wrote: »

Just be able to explain it

The interviews are competency based and you are graded on your competencies. They don't care about your employment history other than how you use it for examples of the competencies.

Do you have to provide typed references or do they actually contact your past employer? I have noticed on past threads peopled stated that references usually are after the position has been offered?

Cindy20201 wrote: »

Do you have to provide typed references or do they actually contact your past employer? I have noticed on past threads peopled stated that references usually are after the position has been offered?

It was no more than a quick phone call confirming some details. Nothing major to be getting worried about.

youllbemine wrote: »

I am interested in this job as civil servants do nothing but watch box sets all day

Very true. They also send us free organic food and organise free foot massages as part of the Civil Service employee wellness programme. That TD Mac Sharry forgot to mention that. Maybe next week. He also spared the Department of Social Protection from his comments. Is that because they are in the frontline or could it be that they have a large national office (Pensions) in his constituency? Anyway I'm sure his opinion is well considered. Sur wasn't his Daddy a TD before him.

Time for my foot massage. Get your application in quick.

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

It's got a lot better with the introduction of Boxsets, used to be that you didn't look out of the window of a morning lest you'd have nothing to do in the afternoon.

Haha! Love it.

Mike Foxtrot wrote: »

I think people should give Mr Macsharry a break (6 weeks to be exact) the poor man has been working so hard 3 days a week since the 1st of July.

He made some good points about those lazy public servants and the loss of productivity. I mean the productivity of a T.D has been near zero for most of the year.

Oh well.

The truth in that is quite sobering.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40025909.html
So I wonder will we even get a job this time around

Big_Baner wrote: »

Well that's my weekend ruined.

As someone in the EO thread pointed out, it's likely anything already budgeted for (such as this competition) will go ahead. There are some departments in desperate need of front line staff like DEASP.

Hi can I ask where your wife got posted and what was her order of merit? 😊

Anybody get called for either Leitrim or Sligo yet??

Any idea what OOM they are up to in Dublin?

Jassgal wrote: »

I emailed last week and they where at 251 for Dublin

Can we infer that approximately 250 Jobs have been allocated in Dublin to date or is that just 250 interviewed awaiting a vacancy ?

Aes Triplex 94 wrote: »

Can we infer that approximately 250 Jobs have been allocated in Dublin to date or is that just 250 interviewed awaiting a vacancy ?

Thats 251 interviews but some people will have failed interviews and others will probably be in the clearance stage.