Clerical Officer 2020

I'm currently batch 2 num 78 and going through vetting if that's any help?

From last msg from them on 22nd they were on batch 32 OOM 108 ( including 52 people who are on clearance / vetting stage) for Dublin panel .

I am batch 32 OOM 123 .. so fingers crossed 🤞

Can I ask advice please? I really want to go for the CO campaign but reading the info booklet they say that the interviews will be January 2022, that seems really quick going from reading this thread. People from the 2020 campaign were only interviewed a couple of weeks ago for example.

I am currently studying and am hoping to get a job as a CO (obviously it's very competitive and fingers crossed and all that!) in a year to 18 months. Should I wait til the next intake or should I get myself on the panel now (again fingers crossed I make it that far!) ?

TIA

Thanks a mill, can you decline without it affecting a future application?

It will have no impact on future applications. Public Service is well used to applicants not accepting an offer for a myriad of reasons including "still studying "

No, you don't have to wait. My second choice came up first and I accepted it. I was then taken off the panel for my 1st choice.

Honestly that's station dependant.

People I know there have a great team atmosphere. Sergeant, inspector and super intendant all extremely polite and really nice and call into the office for a chat. Guards apologetic if reminders were forgotten about and totally on the ball with them usually and always up for a laugh.

Maybe the team atmosphere in your station is us vs them but not all ststions are like that.

No working from home but that more down to confidentiality of certain files and the job needing signatures for everything before it's sent on.

@Lena034 have you got through clearance stage . Just wondering as Dublin panel has not moved for past week ( stuck on 108 ) .. reason they say is , there are people on clearance stage that still need to get position 😓😓

any one know what the typical pension deductions are? would hope to be clearing €380 a week in hand at least on point one of scale. Can anyone who started recently confirm if this sounds about right?

If anyone has been in a similar situation or can offer some advice on the following I would be grateful. I have been asked for employment references for the last 12 months. For the last 5 months I can provide this but the previous 7 months I was on PUP from a different employment. Is this previous employment while on PUP usuable as a referee (as I wasn't actually working) or would I need to supply the alternative i.e. Welfare/Revenue statement along with character reference. My first issue is I can't get a welfare statement online as I don't have full account access due to having an older pps card. My second issue is what to look/ask for from Revenue. What can Revenue give me that will suffice? Thanks anyone.

Also, to add, I was a volunteer with my current employer for the 7 months I was on PUP. Would that be any benefit in that I could use my current employer as a single 12 month reference and not need any of the others?

Hi I am just wondering for anyone that has experience with the CS, is time off/parental leave in the summer hard to get and do temps work in all departments?