The Assistant Principal competition 2022 has gone live on PublicJobs.ie today.
Link is here: https://publicjobs.ie/en/index.php?option=com_jobsearch&view=jobdetails&Itemid=263&cid=166412&campaignId=22434207
Closing date for initial applications is 17/11/22.
The information Booklet for the Open competition is below, if you need to refer to it at a later stage in the competition.
Best of luck everyone!
I've seen them say stuff like that multiple times only for the results to arrive an hour later.
They do seem better than they used to be - shorter timelines & more predictable. Even so, an actual results date is needed. They'd save themselves a lot of hassle and prevent a lot of anxiety on applicants part.
Definitely, I'd say a lot of work didn't get done again today in the Civil Serivce today by stressed our applicants waiting on results that didn't come, yet again!
Even giving PAS credit for the fact that a lot of people would have taken time off over Christmas, I'm finding it a bit difficult to understand how it takes in excess of a month to publish the results of an online assessment. Let's face it - if it's an online assessment, the software would have tallied up the results as applicants submitted their tests. The Department I currently work for has had the vast majority of staff back before the end of last week.
I presume (whether rightly or wrongly) that they have some level of an auditing process, but based on past experience, I've received the results of online tests about two weeks after the closing date.
I will understand the shortlisting stage taking longer as that is more manual intervention, by reading application forms (if I'm even lucky enough to pass the online test stage!) I'm just a bit surprised at the slowness of this stage of the competition by comparison to previous competitions I've applied for.
Just my two cents anyway.
Definitely I spend too much time refreshing my message than actually working
I really don't know where the myth of a Friday afternoon came from 😃 my last comp was HEO and results issued on a Tuesday around noon. I had a look back on my messages and the results took 5 weeks 2 days to issue going by that i'm gonna say they'll be out mid next week, fingerscrossed for everyone
When I was in EO comp and CO comp it was Fridays. But that was back in 2016/17 But yes, I agree, the times for HEO were random. I have never waited this long for results yet though. Or maybe I wasn't paying as much attention.
In fairness, the whole process of civil service job campaigns takes way too long. From applying to starting should take no longer than 3 months. At the moment, at best and being top of every Order of Merit at each stage, you're looking at 6 months. At that point you've lost most of the decent non-PS workers since they'll have found jobs elsewhere. Within the service, you've got people half committed to their current role as they wait for months in hope of a move.
I understand things need to be fair and transparent but three months isn't asking for light speed.
I think you can discount the 2 weeks at Christmas. So its about average if we get the results this week
Getting very impatient now. I emailed again this morning and the reply states Stage 1 results will issue later this month 🙄
I wonder if they are going to just shortlist straight away?
That's what they did for the ongoing AO 2022 competition. Went straight to interview following the online assessment.
If they are shortlisting based on result of online tests & forms then the wait isn’t that bad.
With the interd heo comp everyone was given an oom after tests and then a new oom after shortlisting (tests/forms combined)
That's interesting. I wonder why they release the OOM for the tests and then again for the shortlisting. Transparency I suppose. It would be cruel to get though on the test, or to rank highly only to be moved down the list or excluded on the shortlisting shortly after.
Yes my logic is because AO/EO went straight to interview this might aswell. Take steps our of the chain.
Yes, I know of a few who had ranked highly and then they didn’t make it through shortlisting. Very disappointing for them.
Here's hoping the results issue today.
Have never waited over 5 weeks for any result. Hopefully I get put out of my misery soon.
It's like waiting for the Junior Cert :~
Atleast that comes out on a specified date
I was being silly, this year, it was delayed by months, they were all waiting with no end in sight. My son was one of them, This isn't quite so bad, but it is long.
I really thought the results would be out today. Its ridiculous at this stage should we be adding another 2 weeks to cover Christmas. I don't think i'll be progressing but i'd like to know.
Just asked again as I was told mid January. Reply was as everyone else has already said - later this month- I'm going to put it out of my head until next week as that is last week of January.
Looks like we’ll have an answer in the next 2 weeks. I hope they are shortlisting on applications at the same time too 🤞🏻
I don't think so. I was told the applications will be shortlisted after the results are issued. Just an extra long wait this time
Doesn’t seem like they are under pressure to build a panel anyway
Getting very sick of waiting now 😐️
Same. Just tell me already!
Competitions like these are a marathon not a sprint so don't be mentally exhausting yourself out on the very first hurdle by setting expectations of receiving results by a certain date and then becoming disappointed they don't arrive....
After the test results are released, there will be plenty more waiting time ahead in this competition so focus energy somewhere else more postive and let the process do its thing to avoid being mentally drained if/when you get to interview 👍
And apply for everything you come across in the mean time you never know which marathon turns out to be a sprint
I believe there will be an internal AP competition in DSP very soon
