Administrative Officer Open Competition 2025

If that is your OOM after the interview that is your final placement, there may still be people ahead from earlier batches awaiting allocation and clearance but well done, #1 is great.

Yes basically everyone ahead on the earlier batches has to be inclearance before they start with you, sometimes they will indicate how many are ahead of you, even if other batches, if you ask them.

Emailed Public Jobs a couple days ago. They are still working through Batch 1. About 20 in Batch 1, 20 in Batch 2, and 30 in Batch 3 that were successful in interview

I was near the top of the panel in the first batch. My clearance process took what I thought was an unusually long time, so I decided to chase it up myself. It appeared that the HR section in my department were not receiving the emails from Publicjobs with my reference form, for them to complete. So I asked them to reach out to publicjobs themselves to make sure they got it.

The clearance process was completed about a week after that but it involved a bit of chasing.

Approximately three weeks later, my department assigned me to a role and I begin this Friday.

For anyone wondering about timelines, my interview was in early February and I received my results around a week later. And I am existing civil servant who requested to stay in my department.

As someone who has successfully been placed in the mid teens from batch 2 in the interviews, I now have an upcoming interview for the Executive Officer position that I applied for before I did my AO interview. I am however unsure if it is worth my time and effort going forward with this interview for a lower position, given my success in the AO interview. The thought of putting the same amount of work and effort into preparing for this interview is putting me off. What does anybody think?

Similar boat here. I'm batch 1 teens OOM and currently on a TCO contract till the end of the year. Twice now Ive had an invite for a CO permanent role (one placement, one interview) but decided to pass because I'd feel like a dope starting from scratch again at the same pay only to get pulled out for an AO role soon after.

Given how slow this is moving though I will have to give the EO competition interview a bit more of a consideration.

Does anyone know how long the panel will run for?