Administrative Officer (Specialist Streams) 2024

I applied for energy and climate stream. I'm 77 oom and have no idea how many applied in this competition? I really hope I'll get the chance to interview.

Hi, has the first batch got invite for interview stage? they said they would call up to OOM 36 by end of April.

hello, I have my interview this Thursday for the energy, environment and climate stream. Has anyone had theirs yet and have any advice? Thank you!

No idea really, I would assume under 2 weeks. I had mine today. What stream were you in? Hope you got on well!

I’m in the business and finance stream, I thought the interview was really intense, the questions are nonstop and theres not much time for general chat but the board members were lovely. Fingers crossed we’re not waiting too long for results now! How did you find your interview @goldenmushroom?

The first batch had about 2 and a half weeks to prepare so based on that I would guess it could be late May or early June but that’s absolutely just a guess!!m

@oscillation I found it the same, quite intense but all kind panel members :) such a blur now! Yes, hopefully we aren't waiting too long. Best of luck, keep me posted

Do we think we’ll get interview results before the long weekend? Driving myself crazy refreshing the site every 10 mins!! Afraid to ask them and annoy them though

Results out finally, I’m delighted! Hopefully everything moves along a bit faster now. Hope everyone is pleased with their results :)

Just to add, I was doubting myself after the interview big time - I had previously done CO and EO interview so kind of had an idea of what was going to come up but I felt like I didn't do as good in the AO but at least I passed. My advice would be to know the competencies and practice answering questions, there is a great list of questions on one of the old EO threads that has basically every question they could ask in an EO/AO interview. Also the specialist knowledge questions I found were quite easy and broad e.g. what do you know about sustainable energy, what policies do the government have to reduce GHG emissions. Best of luck to anyone going for interview!

Results are out!!! Thrilled I passed, I was doubting myself after the interview. I hope everyone is pleased with their results :-).

For anyone waiting for an interview or interviewing soon, I would definitely recommend knowing the competencies and their examples extremely well. My interview board were lovely, so nothing to be nervous about. Wishing everyone the best of luck!

hello, congratulations on your result! I ranked 1 in the energy environment and climate stream and I haven't received any follow up details yet. A year ago I was offered a job within another department (turned it down) about a month or so after receiving results, but it depends on how quickly you get references and do the clearance process.

They will ask for contact details for your references and they send them an email with a form to fill out, you will also have to do Garda vetting if you are not already in the civil service which can take anything from a week to 6 months depending on how lucky you are.