Executive Officer in the Civil Service 2026

If you're unemployed in last 2 years you need to provide evidence of it. Do you need to request forms from DSP to cover last 2 years or just the period of unemployment?

Just asking! Thanks for responding. Five days in the office would be tricky to manage for 6 months as I have three children and no extended family around to help

As said above, you've to do your core hours. You can't be away from your desk and you have to be green and active. You are as contactable as home as you would be in the office. As an EO you could be supervising staff and have to be available to them, and this could be from 9.30am to 4pm depending on department and customer service needs.

Which depts need you to have your teams as green all day? Would hardly be green all the time while in the office.

Of course you can step away to make a cup tea, go toilet, take a call on mobile etc. But you can't be spinning to collect kids at 3pm etc.

But you are to be contactable at your work station during work/core hours.

Various departments had staff apply again for working from home over the last few weeks and the policies are fairly black and white, just don't abuse it!

The poster asked a question, you can't be telling them they can do it before they're even assigned a position. You've to persume you need to be at your desk during core hours. Anything you've to do during them hours outside of work is a 'favour' , but not expected.

We all know the CS are very flexible, but start with not having such privileges and see what may develop.

Beyond the current WFH conversation 😅, anyone offered a role yet ? Im just waiting for vetting to come back and dying to know what depts have vacancies, I recall at one stage in 2024 revenue had expressions of interest, wondering if any depts have bulk vacancies again.

It will surely come once a vacancy arises, as he is number 1 the only way it wont is if the county doesnt get a vacancy in the lifetime of the panel.

Once the clearance email comes its very fast, give them ID docs and education if not already submitted, they enter you into garda vetting (mines due back any day) and then current employer reference, (they will respond promptly). PAS confirmed current employer is the absolute last thing they do.

Im hoping for the big reveal next week or soon after. They're very secretive about what vacancies are currently open.

This! 100% agree with this. You have to be ready and available at all times durning core hours (Revenue)

And most Revenue departments are 6 months training in the office for new entrants and then you apply for blended working. This can be refused. In my section my day in the office is Thursday but there are some weeks I may have to go in an extra day due to Business needs. This week I am in three days. If wfh you still need to have childcare organised.

I hadI had an EO who was constantly away from her desk at school pick up time. She got way with it because the HEO enabled her. If you wanted to contact her, you couldn't contact her because she was away from her desk most of the day, if you did manage to get hold of her, you would hear or see a child in the background. We all hated her and we hated how she got special treatment over the rest of us. It was not breed a nice work environment.

We all sorted out our childcare. Creche costs me a fortune but I can't be in two places.

There's no guarantee you'll be allowed work from home to begin with. And even if you are, you need to be available, if you do have a h e o who ll enable you as well, be prepared for everybody else to hate your guts. Everyone else it's in work doing their job where they are supposed to be.

Sort out your childcare, you can't be at home minding in your kids and also doing your job.

I think we need to be clear that when a person says they need to WFH because they have young kids it doesn’t necessarily mean for childcare. I have young kids who are in full time crèche. I go in to the office 2 days a week, those days are difficult, I have to rush them out the door in the morning and get home just before they go to bed because of the commute. I really dislike going in to the office because of that time it takes away from my kids. Not during working hours but the commute both ways. When I’m working from home I get to have that commute time with my kids

This is fair enough although I think that is mainly a problem if there's a long commute involved and if there aren't 2 parents able to do the run (eg I used to do the drop off, get into work about 9h40 and work late, while my wife got into work early and picked them up from after school around 5pm). If you've a 90 minute commute each way and your partner can't do one of the runs, that can make it all a lot harder, although in that case I'd recommend looking for a childminder, particularly if they will pick up the kids (we had one who spent half the day in our house which was great, we didnt have to pick up at all). Main drawback there over creche is that if they (or their own child) is sick you may end up having to take a day off yourself, either annual leave or wouldn't be unknown to call in sick yourself (I never did, but know some who did and in practice is an area where a boss is likely to look the other way).

Obvious its harder if its a lone parent juggling all this (or someone with a partner who doesnt see this as 'his' job...)

Sorry to hear that terrible story, lots of terrible managers in civil service