Executive Officer 2024 Competition (Nationwide)

Any word yet? Did mine today, not very confident

Feeling the same

Best of luck

Well that's the interview done and dusted. Felt it went OK but also felt some of my response were repetition of earlier response. Just have to wait and see now if I've been successful.

Any curveballs? Was it typical "tell me about a time" type questions?

Anyone know timeframe for start a job from the open panel? I have passed interview and the last message I got from PAS was to send on my qualifications a week ago. I said yes to Revenue as it would have been the most likely department anyway for my county, so I know they have positions.

Hi, could I ask you what County are you? And was your interview from the open panel or from the EOI. Thanks!!

Did the interview. Hard to know how it went because everything is very neutral in tone when you're in the moment. I felt they were very intentional in tailoring every question to be reflective of civil service values - nearly all questions led with mention of these so I'd advise anyone preparing to be brushed up and have examples to match these.

I had one challenging question around communication that I felt was oddly specific and it threw me a little. I found it tough to avoid being quite vague on that one as I didn't have a concrete example to match.

Overall, really not sure about it.. I feel like I did well on some questions and then was not specific enough on others, I fear I may have waffled on a couple of occasions. Oh well, at least it's done now.

Yes, I definitely found some questions simple and broad enough that you could answer it in a few different ways. Just with this one question, it was conflict related, but the wording felt a little more specific than the other questions in the interview with more to it than a general "how do you deal with conflict?" question so it threw me off a little.

And they love throwing in "how would you introduce yourself to a CO who has been in the position for 30 years and has great experience?"

Ye thats what i thought too about the Co question

Thanks for that.

Just got asked to complete pre - employment checks saying I'm under consideration for a placement in Athlone, but it doesn't say what department etc.

It says I need to submit current employer details, I've just started a job in the private sector, I assume they won't contact the current employer unless they offer me a position and I accept?

I am 68 on Oom and havent heard any more since I replied to expression of interest last month. Not having much hope😒

I'm not sure how they're dealing with the two streams now. However, it seems from what I've read earlier that people who didn't opt for the Revenue stream and passed the interview are being offered first refusal of these Revenue positions anyway. I could be wrong on that of course. Not much time left till the April deadline they've set themselves but you'd never know.