Revenue - Administrative Officer in ICT or Data Analytics 2025

I have my interview next Friday! October 3rd. Any chance theres someone to has their interview first and can give me pointers? 😂

First face-to-face interview i’ve done in a long time so i’m so nervous! I graduated over a year ago too, so i’m pretty rusty 🙁

Just get STAR based answers prepared based around the panels, personal answer you applied for including appendix A, also whatever you wrote on your application in the panel specific questions, make sure you are able to expand that answer in star method especially if you put in some examples in that

The panel answers you wrote, consider those the type of technical type of questions that you should answer in STAR method, any examples you wrote in the panel sections you applied for, have longer answer of those examples you put prepared as you may be asked otherwise expand that answer and/or after another good star method style example 2 prepared as well on the side.

I have a question, I remember you mentioned getting information about this competition from Reddit too and another thread created apparently from here, do you know where I can find them so that I can read through them?

May I ask how? Mine is on the 30th, just want to make sure that as well as the information I got before from different interviews (private sector) and from what I learned from here is accurate and kept in mind for when I do this interview next Tuesday

At the start they’ll say who’s covering what. If 'Bob' says he’s doing Leadership Potential, then every question from him is testing you against those bullet points.

He might ask: “Tell me about a time you had to deliver something through others or bring a team with you on a difficult change.”

So an example answer might be - In my last role we had to introduce a new reporting system. I suggested phasing the rollout and flagged the risks of moving too quickly to management - that showed I’d thought about the wider implications and had a clear perspective. I ran a workshop to get the team up to speed, shared what I’d learned, and encouraged them to suggest improvements - that showed adaptability, support, and maximising the team. I passed those suggestions back up the line and some of them were adopted, which meant I’d contributed to shaping the process. The team hit the deadline smoothly and our feedback influenced how the system was rolled out more widely.

That single story covers nearly all the Leadership Potential points they’re marking you against.

It’s worth having a couple of examples prepared, but really it’s the competency bullet points you need to know. People get hung up on memorising their examples and then freeze if they get a question they haven’t prepped for, because they can’t go off script.

Also, watch out for them flipping the question — they might ask when you didn’t do something, or a time you failed, just to see how you handle it.

Best of luck with the interview.

best of luck! It would be lovely if you could share your experience tomorrow

I got an interview date for 17th October. Jasus they must be interviewing half of ireland, I wonder how many actual jobs there are…

I will do so, I'm sure the person who created and started this thread that is also doing their interview tomorrow will share what happened (enough to know without exposing who we are individually outside here), I'm scared to **** but I just pray to God and just hope all will be well 🥹😭

Anyone who is also doing the interviews tomorrow, I wish you the very best of luck 🤞

wish you very best. You’ll be fine 🤗

Had a separate interview the other day for another place and thought the same, I’m sure you did fine. Did you find it very formal or casual?

Best of luck with the result anyways!

You’ll be fine, best of luck. Were technical questions related to what you wrote in job application or were like random stuff like how would you clean data etc