New 2021 Assistant Principal in the Civil Service

Very best of luck! I'm sure you'll do great. Let us later ones know how you get on please. I have mine next week.

It's very disappointing. I'm sure they'll be on soon...

So, I have survived my interview. The Board was lovely, the questions were tough, as expected.

Presentation questions were appropriate for the relevant competencies. However, I did have some issues with my slides. I have prepared speaker notes in case, but couldn't see them while sharing. It did work while practicing, but not during the presentation. Not sure where the issue was. You will get a prompt at 9min and will be cut off at 10min.

Interview questions were coming like from a cannon, lots of cutting off and moving on. It's all like a blur now, but a huge weight got lifted off the shoulders at the end. I am glad it's finished and I hope I don't have to do it again any time soon. Not sure if I did enough or not, time will tell now. I think the first interview batch was waiting for results for 2 weeks after all interviews finished, so I would hope to hear in 3 weeks time...🤞

I had my interview during the week and I'm in agreement with agnena. They Board and PAS representative were very nice and did their utmost to make me feel at ease. Interview is tough enough, questions are numerous and quick, but no surprises or odd questions at the same time.

I didn't have issues with my presentation, though I'm not sure I delivered what they were looking for. I wasn't great on the questions I felt but hopefully did enough to pass that section.

I wasn't too impressed with my interview performance, I feel I didn't get a lot of acheivements across as was my intention, but they certainly helped steer me along and I asked questions where I didn't quite understand what they wanted. Not too hopeful, but the whole experience was positive and I'll certainly feel more positive walking into another interview on account of it (if it was a PO interview that would be a bonus 😊 )

Oh what counties are they calling?

There is nothing wrong with sticking some notes on the side of your screen or on the table, but I'm not sure if you'd have time to look at anything. I haven't had mine yet, but I'm hoping I'll have remembered enough not to need notes.

Best of luck! Hope it all goes well for you.

Thank god that it over, did not go as well as I would have liked. As a previous poster stated I think they may have gotten my speaker view when I was presenting because when I asked if they could see the slides they said yes but did I want to present like that, I didn't think anything of it and just said yes. Being questioned on it later I got asked about figures because the panel member couldn't see them. I only clicked afterwards maybe they didnt get the presentation view and instead saw all my notes. So that is super frustrating

Felt I didnt get my depth of experience across and wish I explained the work structure in my current place a bit better as I felt there was a mix up that Ive changed jobs a lot whilst my role actually requires me to join different projects.

I'm not expecting to hear good things but it was an experience that I can certainly draw on, felt I didnt prep correctly and spent a lot of time working on examples and learning them off and the structure of the interview didn't allow for that. If I was to do ti again I'd focus on the competencies more

Best of luck to everyone left I'm going to bed I'm knackered lol

Just got my allocation and I've already accepted it!

I got a straightforward dept, but in an area I have no experience with, but I think that's the point of an open competition. We're expected to be generalists who can be placed anywhere. I'm sure we all have our dream departments and we can start moving around after 2 years, so there is a light at the end of the tunnel if you got something a bit different than what you were expecting.

Curious to know if the results are marked on a curve ie. relative to the other candidates in the batch?

If that is the case, what happens in a hypothetical scenario when there is only one job and two candidates have been equally marked, one earlier in the week and one later in the week?

So there is no objective playoff? 😀 One person scores something on Monday morning. Another scores the same Friday afternoon. Late Friday afternoon, the referees have to "remember" something from Monday morning to increase or decrease by 1 as you suggest. Sounds like subjective relative grading to me as AuroraP asked.