Clerical officer in the civil service 2026 campaign

It was only the application form for the CO competition. Mainly those questions that were asked in a part of it. EO was the one that had its own standalone test

Just application - you’re scored on that.

Definitely next time take the time with those scenarios and written assignments! Don’t leave it until last minute!

Seems a very flawed way of selecting candidates to interview, what was there to stop candidates getting another friend etc who has experience in them to answer the scenario questions and the honest person that tries to be above board gets lower scores and is ruled out, do they use the interviews to weed out the ones that were dishonest

If you had someone do the application you’d be found out during the interview, they will be reading your answers to the competency asked and will ask for different examples. People that cheat also get found out 👍🏻

I got in the 40s for Longford so going by the 2024, there may be hope so 🙈🙈🙈

I was in the 80s on 2024 panel for longford also, did get called for an interview a few weeks ago, passed the interview but didn't get an offer.

For the life of me I have no idea why I didn't pick Limerick instead of Clare, I'm 92 so zero chance for me

Hi all - went through this whole process for the 2025 campaign, where I scored top third category A for Roscommon with an OOM of 28. Despite all that, and after nearly fourteen months of hearing absolutely nothing, was never called for an interview. I sent Public Jobs an email and they advised they had reached OOM 15 by the 26th March this year, when the extended 2025 campaign closed, and advised me to apply for 2026 campaign, which I have done. I was advised last week I had an OOM of 68. I was told by someone that they go back to people at the end of a campaign if they have vacancies to fill, before going onto the new one and new candidates. Don't know if this is true, but my advice is if you are applying to just apply and forget about it. You could be waiting 12 months+ and it's all based on the numbers they have to fill for any particular county.

Can I ask, as someone who has been a CO in the past..

Do most of you guys (at least those who are Dublin based) live with your folks?

Hi all, I got 106 on the panel for Meath, any idea on whether this is likely to get me a job with the CS by the end of the year?

I had oom between 110-115 in Meath for Co comp 2024 and got a position out of it, took a while though.

Anyone have that chart which shows how many were picked for each county in the previous competition?

@intotheunkown posted it a few pages back.

@Mon123 I got oom 2 in Louth…how can that be??

Terrible time of year of do it as most of the new TCO placements haven't gotten a place yet and the vast majority of the last panel will have finished already. Really questioning why Revenue has to do it's own thing so much

Timing probably carefully chosen to get the ones they want.

Many people don't like working for Revenue: They do nasty things like take money off people, and internally they have very clear measures showing who's working and who isn't.