Clerical Officer 2023 (Nationwide)

My OOM is 359 in Cork and 467 in Limerick. The qualifying score of 294 appears exceptionally low though. Mine was 533.

It was my first time applying through one of these tests.

Be honest - do I have any realistic chance of getting an interview here?

Last year when you came 50th for louth did they not reach that number for interview? Trying to gauge if I've a chance or not

Last time was in 60s now oom over 200 raging, I did lots of middling adequate answers which seems to be bad, but had marked highest answer in almost all the competencies first section . Really disappointed as I was about to be called in next round of interviews for at least 1 county and now no chance this round. Hopefully this is a 1 year panel only.

Are they not doing the reasoning assessments this year? Really thought that would be the bulk of the OOM.

I figured the situational questions were more fodder for potential interview questions rather than any kind of hard data. I picked my responses more with an eye to how I would defend them if asked in person. Be very disappointed now if I have to wait a year to game out a psychometric when verbal-numerical-deductive practice tests were all strong.

Received a lovely message this morning to say my results were incorrectly calculated. They’ve added another 100😔

On a suggestion from a post above I googled the civil service mobility map

this is what I found. I think it’s showing what positions are available In what dept and how many of each position that is there.

does anyone know if the number of positions are the positions available to fill or the total number of positions in that building (including ones currently filled!)

it’s worth a look anyways because I found a few departments near me that I wasn’t aware of.

hope it helps you too 🙂

Thank you. I realised it would be once I thought about it 🫣

Hello I am enquiring has anyone else had issues with Public Jobs getting your preferred location wrong? I know I put the right location but they are telling me I selected a different location. Any help would be greatly appreciated . Thanks

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Hi Poppydane . Thanks for getting back to me . I have done that and it states the wrong location that I applied for on the location preference still.

Agreed, I would’ve aced verbal-numerical-deductive tests etc but the situational judgement test seems a very odd way to rank potential candidates. There are no right or wrong answers and no way to know how to improve at them? It’s all a bit bizarre, anyone know why they changed to SJT’s this year and if they will revert back next year?

afaik positions available refers to the grades in that dept so that you know if you can potentially get mobility there (if you are a CO and they don’t have CO positions in that dept you won’t be able to go there on mobility)