New 2021 Assistant Principal in the Civil Service

From PAS as of 11am this morning:

To date we have reached as far as order of merit 67 on the Open panel and 47 on the Interdepartmental panel from batch 3.

I have some great news, so as of this evening Batch 3 is exhausted. They are currently on Batch 4 the current position they are on is Open 1 and Interdepartmental 1

Do you mind me asking your original order of merit? I am also on the Galway panel and just curious now that it's moving. When was the video interview scheduled for?

I emailed just before the Christmas break and they advised they would not be starting batch 4 until mid Jan. Now they might start earlier, but I am not expecting anything this week.

1700-1725 range

5th to 10th January is the window to complete

Does anyone no how long Garda vetting takes? I received a provisional offer for AP role before Xmas and PAS advised I will get a formal offer once Garda vetting completed (presuming I am cleared!). Obviously I can't give formal notice in my current role until I get a formal offer.

My Garda Vetting took exactly 1 week. I submitted on a Tuesday and got notification on the following Tuesday morning

Hi, just enquiring to any person who has been in the AP role for the past few months after a recent appointment - how are you finding it? Is the role meeting your expectations.. or not - for those appointed to the Dublin region have you to attend the office everyday or can you work from home 3 days a week et - thank you in advance ….

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I second this, I would really be grateful if someone recently appointed & new to CS could share their experience so far ? If they are Working from home some days ? how they find the role etc 😊

Hmm.. I'm no. 40 on the open panel.. Hope they keep going!!

Hope they keep some form of a blended option going.. Vital to me taking up a role!!

Blended working won’t be dropped, for example in my department with the number of new hires there simply wouldn’t be enough desks if everyone had to be in.

This might be of interest: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/01/09/hybrid-working-rates-reach-as-high-as-97-among-civil-servants/

I do not think it would be dropped either, but it's just a question of which department we get assigned to and their minimum requirement of days in office. Currently my own department is 1 day a week, but I know of others that have to come in 3 days a week in another department.

Also I am batch 4 top 5 in interdepartmental and open stream. I received my clearance email last night. It does not reference which stream it is for, but as I am an existing civil servant I do not need to complete the garda vetting section on the form. So perhaps it is for the interdepartmental placement??

Could some one email PAS and post the current OOM for Open and Inter departmental please?

Well it really depends on DPER if they decide to review it and pull dispute the funding all department might have to review their own internal blended working systems.

I for one will be certified sick until I find another job if they ask me to return full time and many others have voiced this opinion in my department.

Thanks a mill, I will also check next week on Wed/Thur and post it here.

If any one else on here wants to take up the baton the week after me, I think we would all appreciate that.