Temporary Clerical Officer in Civil Service 2022

Will be applying for sure. Had a high OOM this year but no offer. You never know how it'll go!

A lot of departments don't give references. Instead, they give a record of service letter. That's all I had from a previous TCO placement and it was accepted when I was placed on the 2020 panel.

Thank you!

To obtain this would you just contact your HEO in your section?

What is included in a record of service letter usually?

Will a 'record of service' of the previous TCO contract completed suffice for the 2022 TCO campaign or do they need an actual performance based reference?

Thanks. I've sent off an email to above address so will wait & see what I am told..😊

Best of luck with it, I just put mine in too.

The 8 week contracts are so frustrating, you're barely in the door when you're out again. Learning anything is impossible.

Yes they are very short contracts. Took it on because the guy hiring said it maybe extended and Im sorry that I did. Because like that I was just in when I was going again. I got 2 days of training and then I was in the office on my own literally for 2 weeks while the woman showing me was away on holidays. They gave me a laptop to work from home and I was expected to know it all by then. Crazy I got this feeling that they only took me on to cover while she was on holidays.

Of course they only took you on to cover while she was on holidays: covering leave is pretty much the entire purpose of TCO contracts.

I believe the 2020 panel was the first one where that was even possible: prior to that, people from the temporary panel simply could not be appointed to permanent positions.

I am also led to believe that it's still pretty rare. Perhaps more likely in DSP and possibly Revenue, because they aren't such popular places to be assigned.

Anyone be able to answer this?

They were most likely on the CO panel and the DSP took them from that.

Good stuff

You should get a message on Public Jobs with the link to the assessment.

You do, and if you've signed up for it you can also get a text message to alert you.

yeah you are right. its for covering leave . Although previously I took a TCO with HSE because there was a vacant role there and i was there for 15 months, But they let me go to take someone on from the panel if I was on it I would have been considered considering I worked there already and they were pleased with my work. I had applied to the 2017 CO panel but never called for interview because there was a freeze on it.