Clerical Offcier 2023 open for everywhere except Dublin - which has its own panel from last year
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Not that I'm aware of. 2 stages, assessment, and interview.
Completed mine earlier, I was agonising over whether some were adequate/weak or weak/bad etc, hopefully will pass at least. Any idea when we’ll get our OOM?
There won't be another open EO competition for at least 9 months, if not longer I'd guess, because the current panel has a year left in it. :( wish it opened because I'd love to apply myself, enjoying my job now but I'd love more responsibility too.
@CW2022 should just take a CO position if they want into the CS unless it's economically unfeasible of course...
Two years until you're eligible to apply for internal EO. Oooooooor you can still do CO, get in and be promoted to EO when the next competition comes around even if your two years aren't up yet. If you end up having to wait the two years, at least you then get multiple chances from internal and external competitions.
Also apologies about the webcam comment lol. The CO assessment seems to be ridiculously simple in comparison to the EO comp. I was basing it off the EO comp.
OK, not so bad - though who knows really!
Is there a stage after interview - another test? - or is it straight onto a panel then?
It's maybe not a waste because like answering questions in a timespan is a skill ig but I believe the tool might be outdated?
Ah ok. Does anybody know what exactly they were looking for in those questions? Do they want you to be a grass and always run to your boss or shut up and do extra work to keep problems to a minimum.
They might have answered the questions but that doesn't mean they got them right. They never give you the answers. But yes, if they did well in the tco competition and if they give the same answers now, they should be okay.
@patty5 The exact same? So would people who did the TCO comp not know the answers?
The questions are the exact same that were used for the TCO Comp.
How many scenarios are there ??
Part B didn't seem like there were many scenarios?!
Would people mind posting up here when the results come out? 😊
@The_Kitty Any idea how they go about scoring part 1A?
It's questions about experience you have with things like customer service, word, excel etc. Drop down menu for every question and you select the answer. Takes only a minute or two for the whole thing.
What's part A like?
Are most people applying from the private sector? Do people say CO long or what are promotion times like? Would it be bette to wait for an EO comp?
Anyone any information on when we get the results for Stage 1?
I've checked the information booklet, and it just mentions opening & closing dates for the assessment questionnaires and approx. when interviews are.
Anyone know?
Does anyone know the right answers to the questionnaire about what to do in the work situations. Not sure I put the right answers
No no webcam needed
Anyone current employed in the public sector thinking of making the switch to civil service?
I know there’s a separate nsso thread but it’s quiet, I assume no one has heard anything. Thought they would be quicker as it’s an external company running it and it closed a few days before this one
How do they go about scoring part 1A?
Thanks was planning on doing it on the old reliable desktop at work
Nope, no webcam needed and it isn’t timed either
Can someone confirm if a webcam is needed
@The_Kitty There is no example test in the familiarisation material. A practice test is not necessary for part 1A. Part 1B is Situation Judgement Test (SJT). You could Google that as there is no Clerical Officer SJ practice test on Public Jobs.
And above it was said a webcam was needed. Is this true?
while I didn’t find the practice test much help with this assessment, the familiarisation form that you will have received gives you a good explanation of what is to be expected.
