Clerical officer in the civil service 2026 campaign

Has anyone experienced a Public Jobs scenario correction like this before? 2/6 questions affected, wondering what kind of OOM movement people actually saw (up or down) in similar cases

Maybe that’s for TCO or something mate. It’s not for this panel 👍

Ditto with me : I was shocked at how low I scored on the scenario score. It's somewhat difficult to imagine they could bump me down even lower (!) than I already was.

Yes, it's the good, adequate, weak and bad ones. But that will surely cause a major change to the OOM - that is 33% of the situation points right there that are incorrect.

I'm the EXACT same

Try to remain positive folks! If they havent scored 2 questions correctly out of the 6, you might improve your OOM. Very frustrating but unfortunately nothing we can do now.. cannot wait to be refreshing my emails tomorrow afternoon!!

Sorry, just to clarify it is for the tco position.

There's a lot of unnecessary panicking going on here. First of all, nobody knows if scores will improve or get worse. I'd like to think that those who put time and effort into their application are more likely to move up the OOM.

My wife is in this and we were quite disappointed with her OOM. She has fantastic experience in admin and customer service. She also put serious consideration in to her responses. I honestly think she did a great job on the application.

I expect her OOM to improve.

We will all find out tomorrow. Let's just wait and see.

(made an account just to comment on this lol)

For what it's worth, I placed in the 30s for Dublin. I have already done my interview on Friday April 10th.

When I was talking to the interviewer, it was after 2PM and he had been starting to lose his voice due to the amount of interviews he was doing. He seemed like he had quite a few more to do. I already got word on the following Monday to say I passed.

Previously, I have scored just over 1,000 on the Temporary Clerical Officer Nationwide 2026 Panel (applied November 2025) — I got these results in December. This batch of tests for the Permanent position were done Early March. This was obviously a MASSIVE jump for me, and I'm terrified about how much my result could plummet. My answers were only 5 months apart!

I hope this at least helps prove to some that this is very much real and a lot of us have already done the interview stage! Best of luck to everyone who is going to be affected by this

The people who had a high OOM and who now get bumped down to a new lower OOM and who have already been interviewed may have no choice but to sit this one out and wait much longer for a job offer. From what I understand, there is no obligation on the CS to offer them a position soon after they have interviewed - the whole process will probably switch around to the new OOM now.

2 of 6

Can I please ask anybody who already had their interview, was it interview in person or online through Teams/Zoom?

Mine was through zoom

How are we this far in the competition and they are only noticing this error now. So we have to jump through all these hoops to get a job in the cs and show that we highly skilled people who have meticulous attention to detail and make zero errors and they just mess up all of our OOMs and only correct it like 5 weeks after the application closes. Sorry for ranting but yeah. There's definitely some irony there. But best of luck everyone.

The best course of action is to leave as is instead of all this messing about. Admit the error and continue as is.

I doubt the additional 2 answers will drastically change anyone’s scores as the previous 4 scenarios/ questions would have a similar approach.