The HEO 2024 Competition is now open for applications.
Link is here: https://www.publicjobs.ie/en/?option=com_jobsearch&view=jobdetails&cid=189011&campaignId=24231106&Itemid=263
Closing date for initial applications is 3pm on the 6th June, 2024.
Best of luck everyone! Candidate Information video is available here: https://vimeo.com/943622208/bbf6b13d05
Same as you guys.
Verbal was fine (Or least I thought and hope so)
The numerical…That was ridiculous! Took me about 25 minutes to do it and majority of it was guess work. As someone said above, unless this is for a finance or accountant role, I did not get the point of that at all.
Hope for the best for all of us
Info was missing from most tables and charts for me.
I was away until tonight and will have to do the tests in the morning .. not ideal but this is the hand I've been dealt. Just a quick question please..
Can we skip questions and go back to them at the end? Or is it a case of once you move on you're stuck with what you've selected?
Pretty sure you can't. It either tells you in the familiarisation material or when you're reading through the test information before you take the test.
Unfortunately you can't. You're stuck with your selection.
You can't skip I remember reading in the information. I believe as it's adaptive assessment your answer to the question determines the next question you get.
let’s just say I’ll be chalking this one down to experience 🙈
can’t go back - ye have to keep going once you’ve given your answer
Well that was a 💩show.
Numerical was a complete disaster. Very demoralising tbh.
Found the numerical incredibly difficult….not holding out much hope for a pass.
Numerical was fine for me, just took longer than expected. They were definitely harder than the Aon/Cut-e tests used in the 2023 EO competition I found verbal more difficult. I probably answered 'can't say' too many times.
Similar experience for me in regards to the numerical. They got progressively harder so I'm hoping that means I was answering them correctly. Then again, progressively harder for me might have been easy for someone else, it's hard to tell. I did throw a guess at 2 because they were taking me too long to try to decipher what exactly I was supposed to do.
I would imagine we all got randomised verbal questions so it's hard to judge by someone else's comments on what they selected. For me, I had a mix of true, false and cannot say. Again, I might have gotten them all wrong 🤣
Did anyone else find the info wasn't very clear?
Yeah I found that on a couple, I was looking around the screen thinking I was missing some of the information. Overall I found the numerical really difficult and I normally do quite well on them.
As a few have said, numerical is usually my strongest and I was stumped by a few. Felt like I was missing data
Yes. Definitely. I gave feedback on it all, and I didn't mince words.
Now that that's all over, when do we expect to get results? 🤣
As bad as I found the numerical, I dread the presentation 😂 If I get that far😂
Start of August ..
Those tests were bleeding brutal.
I don't know wtf they were thinking giving us (or anyone) numerical tests like those. The blurry images, the absence of data labelling, the nonsensical questions, the redundant information, the over reliance on estimation regardless of the type of answers available, the list goes on. Not to mention that fact that "estimating" data is a huge no-no in the real civil service! It's the public sector version of "creative" accounting.
What farce, and I think it's a shocking disrespect to us as candidates.
Well that was the square root of me granny's hole!! I didn't know I was applying to re-programme the James Webb telescope.
It's done now, the universe will decide 😂
Did anyone send their feedback to PAS?
Hello all,
Well everyone, what's done is done. there's no point in thinking about it now. I wish everyone very good luck. when are the result expected to come out? Does anyone know? I never red the booklet before l applied.
Thank you,
😁that comment made me laugh out loud !!!!
Booklet says before the beginning of August !!!
Best laugh I've had all day…. was badly needed. 🤣
Well considering that used sova that allready know the results but it'll take 2-4 weeks for them to click the button that says publish
It's to allow for any complaints to be checked out
They also issued an error message saying they changed the minimum score for the tests from 20 to 34
