Open competition for appointment to the position of Crime and Data Analyst (EO Grade).

Ok thanks. They might be interviewing in batches of 10 so. They’ll hardly need more than that in each county I’d say

No, I’m 17 Waterford. But I doubt they’ll need that many EO’s in Wat (but if they’re interviewing 10 for Gal they might interview 10 for Wat too). I doubt they’ll go much past that OOM tbh

Id love if they interviewed everyone and gave us all a shot but I doubt it’d happen. Like I think there’s at least 50-100 OOM per county? and there might only be 1-2 positions per county… They may not take from some panels at all so some counties, even if ur number 1, won’t place. I don’t think they ever said how many places nationwide there are so I’d imagine it’s a small number I’d guess about 20-25? Ive no idea though.

Yeah I saw that and tbh given a choice I’d rather be in the CS but I’m 100+ on the CS EO panel so have to give AGS a go if I want to be in the public sector

Oh this is interesting. I’m surprised they haven’t even got to 12. Galway should have a decent number of openings given it has a regional hq.

The business about CS vs AGS staff is new to me. To be honest, I never thought of this position as a general CS position. I have a fairly specialised background so wouldn’t have applied for a general CS role. But the fact that they are treating civilian staff so poorly is worrying. Anybody know if the crime and data analysis folks are treated the same as general civilian staff in terms of respect and promotions? I would be taking a pretty big salary drop to move to this role on the basis that I can move up fairly quickly.

I’d imagine there’s only 1 or 2 positions open in Galway given the small numbers called to stage 3. Are the interviews commencing shortly? Best of luck if so!

Not entirely sure on treatment of analyst vs general EO’s in AGS…sounds quite messy atm. There is a nice jump in salary from EO analyst to HEO analyst so would be worth it if you could hold out the 2 years to be eligible for promotion

Did they advise you that you had to complete another analysis test too?

Does anybody know what OOM had been called for clearance on the Dublin panel?

They reached my place on 10th August. I started clearance but ended up withdrawing because I was successful in the current Interdepartmental HEO competition. Would have loved to combine the Crime Analyst role with the HEO money but had to choose. Best of luck to everyone else - it really looks like a great job.

Did you get any sense of how long the clearance process takes? I lived abroad in a couple of non-EU countries so I’m concerned it could take a long time.

Just looking over the job spec for this position again and I see that there is five weeks of introductory training, possibly in Templemore. Presumably they are going to try to run that training for as many people as possible all at once. I wonder does that mean people will be joining in batches?

When you say vetting procedure, do you mean the Garda clearance? They told me they only did that after making an offer, or at least that being on the panel didn’t mean they would start the clearance process.

I see, thanks. My understanding of panels is that if they’ve reached your number you will be offered the position so long as the vettting works out.

I’m in Galway and they only interviewed me and told me my OOM a couple of weeks ago so can’t help. Would love to know how long the whole process takes for you in the end.

Turns out they’re only hiring a single person in Galway at the moment. Given that Galway is a regional HQ and is one of the biggest counties by population, that makes me think they could be hiring none at all in many places.

I was advised that it can take over 12 weeks (3 months) for all vetting to be completed.