Principal Officer 2025

My reading of the booklet was slightly different-they won't create an OOM post-interview at all. Instead it's a pass/fail and then appointments are based on skill matching. Could be wrong!

If its any help, you cant be assigned there as a PO Standard

AG, DPER are 3 days a week.

At PO level standard wfh arrangements are almost completely irrelevant to your own work.

A lot of time is spent in meetings and those meetings will be in person if they need to be.

You can't tell the Minister, sorry I work from home Wednesdays.

On the flip side, if it's a week or month where you're lighter on meetings/work, nobody will question it if you work from home that day. You'll have the ability to work from anywhere because you'll be expected to work from multiple locations if needed.

Well done on passing - did they say how many applicants they shortlisted? or up to what OOM?

I also passed the online tests just over 200 and haven’t heard anything.

There's a new OOM based on a shortlisting score. I dropped slightly. Expecting to be called for interview the week of the 8th.

Only 36 is an insanely low amount to be interviewing. Are we thinking there are likely to be a set batch of vacancies related to the EU presidency or what?

I’m near 180 but I didn’t get a message, so they didn’t call that far

PAS clearly taking a different approach to this year considering they went through around 250 for Batch 1 in the 2022 comp. Probably makes a lot more sense for everyone to take it in smaller chunks and not end up with loads on a panel that last forever and goes nowhere

They shortlisted numbers 1 to 150 or thereabouts.

For those 150, they marked the application forms. There were marks out of 50 for four different criteria. Those in the top 150 who scored more than 20/50 in all four areas passed and their application form score gave them a new ranking.

At a guess 70-100 passed shortlisting.

The 36 best application forms will be interviewed in batch 1.1 in September.

37 → the rest of the 150 will be interviewed as batch 1.2 if they have more vacancies.

If they have yet more vacancies, they will shortlist more application forms and there will be a batch 2.

This panel is meant to run until early next year but it might get extended. Departments have not taken many from the last panel. Hard to know how this will go.

This batch 1.1 might be the entirety pf it or they might get passed 1000 in the original OOM.

Can I ask was it just 4 capabilities they shortlisted off or was anything additional marked.

Over the 150 after stage 1 here so not shortlisted yet

Surprised that they are interviewing so few if im honest