2024 Assistant Principal in Civil Service

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I had to submit mine on a Wednesday morning, my interview was the following Monday.

Yikes.. best start concentrating on the aptitude for next comp so!! I'm mid 500s so no chance of getting called when this is only going to be a year comp.. unless they extend it, was surprised they said it was only going to last a year

Interesting - I emailed them last Friday with the same question, and the response was different:

"At present we have brought forward up to open OOM 42 to stage 3 interview for Dublin.

As we are operating a demand led recruitment approach for this competition, therefore we are unable to predict if or when vacancies will arise, so we are only calling candidates forward when there is a demand from Departments to fill vacancies within locations."

So they only called additional 11 OOMs for the 1.2? Or doing smaller batches?

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"At present we have brought forward up to open OOM 42 to stage 3 interview for Dublin.

This might be crazy but 53 and 42 are very close together when typing. I suspect its a typo?

I'll take my tinfoil hat off now.

No movement in westmeath at all yet either. Would be nice to even just find out if we've been shortlisted

Was this for a rescheduled interview also? Or was your OOM somewhere between 42 and 53?

No, not rescheduled, but OOM between 42 and 53.

PAS have said to me this morning they’ve called up to OOM 61 to interview in Dublin Batch 1.

I'm in Batch 1.1, OOM in the low 20s on the Open stream. No word yet on clearance so I'm guessing there's no urgency beyond the top half or so of those successful from the first round of interviews in late March. Unless anyone has insight into how they handle clearance: do they tend to do it on demand or in batches?

If there is only person for each OOM - then they are doing 1 week of interviews this time? And yes, I am hoping to be in the 1.3 although I fear that it will be over the summer (when I am on holiday). Anyway, I it is painfully slow, considering that I scored above 250 points at the shortlisting stage and I was hoping to have the interview behind me a bit sooner.

Yes seems that way! I have a similar OOM too so was hoping to be in 1.2 and get the interview done before the summer, but from experience on a different technical AP panel, these processes are crazy slow and the only way to keep your sanity is to put them to the back of your mind until you get word from PAS… it really is the most frustrating recruitment process imo

Hi, based on my communication with them I think my preemployment clearance will start in a couple of weeks. Did they give any indication to you how long that would go on for? And were you able to negotiate a start date at all (or maybe that only happens once clearance concludes). Thank you

For what its worth I've emailed today to see if there was any movement, seems none so far.

"At present we have called forward up to open OOM 53 and interdepartmental OOM 26 to stage 3 interview and presentation for Dublin." - 16/05/2025

How did people find the strategic analysis exercise in the interview and the prep beforehand?