Just announced on publicjobs.ie Facebook page that 2022 TCO will open this Thursday 14th October
No link as I'm too new still
Will be applying for sure. Had a high OOM this year but no offer. You never know how it'll go!
For those who completed a TCO minimum contract of the 8 weeks previously, and did not recieve another contract after this, did you have much success in subsequent TCO campaigns, regarding obtaining HEO references?
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.
Link - https://www.publicjobs.ie/en/index.php?option=com_jobsearch&view=jobdetails&Itemid=263&cid=143396&campaignId=21292805
Thank you!
To obtain this would you just contact your HEO in your section?
What is included in a record of service letter usually?
Contact the HR department and ask if they will issue a reference. If they won't then ask them for a record of service letter which will simply state that you worked there from xdate to xdate.
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?
I honestly couldn't tell you. It might be best to contact the email address given for the 2022 campaign to ask if they'll accept a record of service as a reference. I had a reference from another job that was less than 3 years old so they accepted that with the record of service.
Thanks. I've sent off an email to above address so will wait & see what I am told..😊
I applied again this time around. Just completed an 8 week TCO. Very short really. They said that it may be extended but it never was.
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.
Totally agree with you on that. 😊
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.
Anyone recall when we will get the link to the exam? I can't recall and the information is gone off the system. Thanks
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 know three TCOs on my floor taken on in DSP in the last year who have been made permanent, so it's nonsense to suggest you can't be made permanent.
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.
I was taken on permanently by my department when I was a TCO but I was going through the permanent CO competition as well while I was working there during my TCO contract. My department just requested I was assigned to them when the process was all over.
It's the luck of the draw with TCO contracts. Some people only get 8 weeks. I know one person that worked nearly 4 years on a TCO contract.
Anyone be able to answer this?
This is from the booklet.
They were most likely on the CO panel and the DSP took them from that.
Many thanks Furrybones
Good stuff
Are you emailed with a link to the online questionnaire when it goes live or how do you access it? ( I've forgotten from last time, sorry 😛.
Thank you
You should get a message on Public Jobs with the link to the assessment.
Thanks very much for that furrybones. I think you normally get an email alerting you that there is a message on your Public Jobs messageboard also, if I remember correctly. 😊
You do, and if you've signed up for it you can also get a text message to alert you.
Find the scenario questions hard to answer every year.
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.
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