A new competition has opened. Closed on 24/10 on public jobs.
Good Luck to all those applying
https://www.publicjobs.ie/en/?option=com_jobsearch&view=jobdetails&cid=194388&campaignId=24456408&Itemid=263
I reckon it is strategic so people have cooled down by Monday, less chance of ranting phone calls from disappointed applicants
Yes, they love a good Friday evening notification. 😂😂
Not as yet Louise - can see them sending out notifications tomorrow at 4pm!! 😂
Has anyone from the Dublin and Mayo groups received a date for the March interviews yet?
Same as bren, I bought the pack, did a lot of practice. Also applied for 3 CS jobs in the last year so had experience from those tests. It all definitely helped me get shortlisted this time round. I'm way higher on AP than AO panel right now. But I also know people who have done lots of practice, and still aren't improving. So I guess it depends.
Practice definitely helped me with situational judgement (although I still think a lot of it is luck). I learned a few things like - the worst answer is always the do nothing option. Seems it's better to make a total haims of things rather than sit on your hands.
I found jobtestprep pretty excellent for verbal reasoning. I have no doubt I would have performed much worse without it. My interpretation of text was very different to theirs and it allowed me to learn what they were looking for.
it was useless for the job situation stuff and the numerical I didn’t need help for.
Same, I have done tests before and fared well, and figured these aren't the type of tests that you can study for. I also didn't want to spend money on jobtestprep, or whatever it's called! I'm still not fully convinced that practice would have made a significant difference. I reckon I lost a lot of marks due to my speed of answers... I prefer the old style tests LOL!
Does anyone know how many were shortlisted initially in Mayo? Just to get an idea for other regional areas. Thanks
I've no idea, I guess it depends on how many jobs there are and how many people pass each round. It's the whole how long is a piece of string question. I guess keep an eye here and you should be able to monitor how quickly they are moving through the ranks. It looks like they have taken 45ish through to batch 1.1, you could get 45 passes which means it might be while placing before they move to batch 1.2, or 0 passes so straight onto batch 1.2 - or anywhere in between those 2 numbers. Once it starts moving though you will get an idea of when/if it will hit OOM 900.
Do you think they will get to OOM 900 even though the last competition ran for more than two years, while this is due to be just one year?
the comp is one year long and it's unlikely they'll make it down that far on the OOM.
All you can do it chalk it down as lesson learned. Those tests measure specific skills, and like any test in life, most people have to study for them. I practiced most nights for an hour or two and that stood to me on the day.
Equally, for the interview I'll practice. They're not like normal job interviews and you've to hit certain criteria. I'll be laying out my examples and organising them into categories.
It doesn't matter the experience you have. You've to demonstrate the competencies/capabilities according to their rules. Each stage has to be properly prepared for.
This will all stand to you for the next competition tho
(Bren below said it much better than I could)
Well done to everyone who got to the next stage, and commiserations to those that missed out (I think we all know the feeling!). My score was over 240 and OOM was in the 90s for the open comp. Fingers crossed for the batch 2 of interviews happening soon, but feels like we might be for a bit of a wait.
I believe it can be a regular job, in any department, certainly know people who got offered that anyway. As a public service, queries etc can come in in irish or people may present at a desk speaking irish, all materials need yo be in irish and english etc, so irish is needed in all depts.
I got placed 1058 on the tests. Not so great. will I even get an interview ? Raging with myself for not practicing .. my form is good so I thought I’d get bumped up a lot but seems like they may never even see it .. lesson learned. coming from private sector …
I have significant management experience but I guess these tests are quite the obstacle. Genuinely didn’t get that part. Thought I’d sail through .. silly me
Yeah, I might. I'd like publicjobs to do some kind of webinar about what kind of jobs there are with Irish. Is it a regular job, in any department, or more likely something Gaeltacht related. If they said there was more of a chance to work from a more rural office with an Irish language job I'd be sold. Only picked Dublin for the better job opportunities. I'm hoping my own department will keep me. For that I'm probably better off not on an Irish panel…
I think there is. A huge shortage of Irish language so you can email in and chance it. Might be worth a shot.
Seem to have missed the boat on the Irish language jobs. Sent a message 15.40 Wednesday, had to reply by 10am Friday. Oh well. I take it from the "I missed the entry deadline by 4 minutes…." thread that there's no point in replying late.
Said if I passed the Irish test, got offered an Irish language position and didn't take it, I'd then be out of the general AP competition as well. Have enough to be doing getting ready for March anyway. 😬
I am through to next round with oom in the late 100s so it sounds like it might be autumn before I get called for interview if they are just doing 40 ish in each batch.
Would love any feedback on the practical element, it’s not a presentation or they’d say? Good luck to all going for interview in march, would very much appreciate any updates or feedback on the process.
I think they are taking 45 through, but again just a wild hunch. No.47 was just outside the score so I think they cut off at 45.
On the InterD?
Actually... my answer to the OP question about 2nd batch is based on incorrect assumptions and calculations. There is 2 OOM. I was only focused on the inter D OOM so the numbers being called will increase. Not sure by how many. Which means the time to interview everyone will also increase.
Therefore I haven't a clue what I am talking about or what PAS are going to do but good luck to everyone who made it this far 🤞
Correct. 9th on OOM
No I am within top 10. I scored over 285.
Are you 10? I scored higher than 285 but am outside the top 10 (not by much)
Thanks for this.
It does seem versus the previous competition that the batches/sub-batches are a fair but smaller. I presume this is just decreased demand from departments?
Were you OOM 9?
Thanks for that @garyc_76 that's really helpful. Best of luck with your interview.
I scored 285 so am in the 1st batch for the interviews. I've been trying to figure out how many were called for the 1st batch of interviews and based on my OOM. The number of candidates between 285 and 270 seems to be around 38. that being the case i'm guessing that only the top 40 (ish) in the OOM were called in the 1st batch. Based on previous comps, the 40 interviews will take about 2 weeks and the results of those would most likely be released by end of March/start of April. 2nd batch would then likely be called after the successful candidates were appointed.
So…. to answer the query - at this is a pure guess…. i'd say batch 2 would be called in May/June.
fantastic well done!
