2024 Assistant Principal in Civil Service

September I'm not holding my breath for being called on this one anymore summer months are usually slow.

Any process that is not fully transparent should be of concern to all.

What isn't transparent?

You submit your documents, you sit the test, you're given an OOM, your documents are reviewed based on your OOM and you're reranked, you're invited for an interview based on your OOM and reranked. Jobs are then given out based on your final order. You're informed of the output at every stage and can pretty much appeal each stage.

Its incredibly onerous and an attempt at providing objective criteria. Apply for the job in the private sector, there's zero transparency because there's no requirement for there to be.

yeah I just got the emails in work. I'm on the 2.2 panels, I was told last week that there are five people ahead of me but that they're not processing any vacancies at the moment.

I wonder what that means. I can't remember; are the panels valid for a year after they're formed, or for the lifetime of the competition, i.e. September in the case of this 2024 comp? I might have to throw in another application 😅

Anyone here from batch 2.2? Last I heard they had reached 11 on the 2.2 interdepartmental. I'm beginning to worry the panel might expire; I know someone that happened to before.

I emailed publicjobs today; confirmed panel is live until September, said demand led so cannot predict, told me to apply for new comp if I want to be sure!

Has anyone ever purchased online packages for the online tests to practice?

I was 2nd on a regional panel after interview and the General Info booklet from the 2026 comp states that 2 appointments were made from the 2024 panel. I am still on the panel and currently first after the person ahead was appointed, so struggling to understand the maths here!

That must be it. I was on open and not 100% sure how those two panels interact.

Additional document 2: general information, on the 2026 comp page.

Congratulations. Absolutely, at this stage take the offer! Time is running out for the 2024.

Does anyone happen to know where the Open is at in terms of batch etc? I am batch 3, but don't have much hope.

No. It just depends on which departments "owe" their vacancies to which panel at any given point.

Sometimes people who are on both panels decline the offer they receive first, if they don't like it or it doesn't suit them, and hope that the second offer will be better. I'm not doing that

How did they contact you? Via email?

Yes, just by email this morning.

Thanks is it the usual large volume address? Just wanna make sure it doesn't go into spam

Fantastic good luck to everyone

oh wow. If they’re shortlisting into the 520s I’m just a few off. Fingers crossed. I did really well in the maths and verbal tests but poorly in the situational judgement. That’s an interesting one because I felt they should have included all three. There’s in some ways a bias towards people who “get it” in terms of civil service culture and methodology but that’s a positive and a negative in any leadership role