Administrative Officer Open Competition 2025

Great, thanks - sounds like everything I’ve prepared for so far re the presentation anyway. Any general advice for the interview questions after? I feel like they’ll be quite challenging - I’ve reviewed the capability framework well and prepared some examples of my past experience and skills that fit

60 as of 24/02. I'm around the same as yourself, so fingers are crossed, all signs point to at least getting an interview anyways.

Congrats! I'm not sure how long it takes typically but I can say I was in batch one and top 3 OOM and it was only around 2 weeks from finding out OOM to starting to get emails asking for documents for clearance.

Apparently they are now at 100 on the order of merit. Seems like it is moving faster than usual?

Thanks for that feedback! I’ve been placed and not far from you. Wow - I feel like that’s really slow, considering the numbers being interviewed

Does anyone know if they have started the clearance process for batch 2 yet? I’m in the mid-teens in batch 2, curious to know how fast things are moving.

Mine had little or nothing to do with my previous work/study areas, but I did find it helpful to include why I would be interested or my skills/competencies would be relevant.

I think the most helpful thing for me to keep in mind was that it was going to be a very strict 8 minute presentation (double check that!), so there's only so mcuh depth you can go into there. But yeah, it took me much longer to prepare as well - I probably spent 4-5 hours trying to pick a topic!

I can't stress enough how I wasn't really sure what I was doing, but I tried to refer back to the government documents they included in the instructions and some related statistics/studies I pulled up on Google. Less depth on what the issue is and more on it being identified as an issue, and then whatever approach I was looking at after that.

I interviewed back in February so, can give a little insight into how the interview is structured! It starts off with introductions & opening questions, you’ll then do your 8-minute presentation (it was an open brief but, they did encourage you to do it on a topic you’d be comfortable with or one that would align with your area of study). They’ll they go into a Q&A session; I found the questions weren’t very specific to my topic, they were very general. Once the presentation is done you’ll go through each capability starting with ‘Building Future Readiness,’ and so on. Mine was about 60-75 minutes - plus it’s online!

Cool. Thanks for that. How long after did they give you the result of your interview or are you still waiting?

Just wondering has anyone from batch 1 been placed yet?