AP Tax Specialist Revenue Recruitment

Missed out by couple points in leadership which is annoying.

Anyone know how often these competitions are run? Is it likely to be another year or two?

Hard luck. I too came up short in leadership 😮‍💨They ran 2 competitions in 2025- May & December. At the very least it’s experience and will be a great foundation for the next time!

Think you would be needing around 400 for that. Offers have started to trickle through. Best of luck to everyone. I am number 60 so not sure where that leaves me.

Hi sinagh, do you happen to know where the offers are for. I placed in the top 10 but Dublin was not one of my choices.

Separately, do you know of anyone in a previous campaign who didn't get an offer in either of their chosen regions but was able to secure a place further afield. If so I would love to know how that works.

Congrats to everyone who got on the panel. Unfortunately I went down in Interpersonal & Communication Skills. I was quite nervous. Would anyone have a recommendation for an interview coach? Preferably someone who specialises in public sector interviews?

Anyone in the top 10/20 panel placings received an offer yet?

My colleague got an offer for Limerick but not sure where he was on the list. Like the previous poster would be interested to hear of anyothere and for what locations?

I am just outside of top 10 Dublin and no offer yet!

In one of the previous campaigns, in the area on the application form where you indicate your preferred regions, there was a link to the breakdown of the appointments by region in the previous year. The number of APs appointed via both internal and external campaigns over the past few years are as follows:

2021 42

2022 47

2023 60

2024 55

2025 Not yet published

In addition to wanting to find out the number of regional appointments I would also love to know the split between external campaign appointments and internal. Obviously the external campaigns also include serving Revenue staff but at least it would give an idea of the likelihood of getting called from the external panel… or not!!

Hi @AlwaysLate

Do you have a link / source of where you got that information?
Is a breakdown of appointments per region still available - I know you mentioned this was cited on previous application forms

super helpful thank you!

It's a few years out of date but I had a look on the Oireachtas website now and found this for Dublin:

"I am advised by Revenue that in the period from January 2017 to December 2022, there were 299 Revenue appointments to posts in the Assistant Principal Officer grade, in Dublin. This comprised 105 appointments from Public Appointments Service or Revenue open competitions; 55 from interdepartmental competitions; and 139 from Revenue internal promotion competitions. In addition, there were 108 Revenue assignments at Assistant Principal Officer grade on transfer within Revenue or from another department or organisation; on secondment, or on return from Career Break."

So an average of about 17/18 APs a year from external competitions for Dublin but since the panel has only given us an overall rank and not location specific ones and some people may decide not to accept an offer you'd expect that if they hire a similar numbers of AP they'd have to go a good bit further down the panel than that.

It also looks like from the figures AlwaysLate posted that the numbers of APs hired has been trending upwards in recent years which could mean they'd need to go even further. The annual report is usually out late-April so we should know if the trend of more APs being hired continued into 2025 then. I'm guessing with how quickly they started a new competition that it probably did.

Anyone on this panel also been called for interview for the HEO panel? I’m due to be called for interview next week based on the email I received today. It’s a hard one because I am relatively high on the AP panel in both my locations, but that is no guarantee of an AP offer before the panel expires…

you are right! Thanks

I emailed them and they wrote back and confirmed