Eircom apprenticeship

auto spark · 10-08-2011 03:24AM

ps ......... i never stated , my interview tuesday week is only the phone interview stage

Watching · 10-08-2011 03:26AM

For those that followed the thread from beginning, I have city west test on Monday.

Mwahahahahahhahahaha:D

auto spark · 10-08-2011 03:29AM

nice one mate ......... best of luck , there must be gansy loads of people going for it , if some people are at perosnal interview , some are at phone interview and some havent heard anything yet .

leem6 · 10-08-2011 10:03AM

Watching wrote: »

For those that followed the thread from beginning, I have city west test on Monday.

Mwahahahahahhahahaha:D

Has anyone received the email with details re: next Monday's assessment?

focusowner · 10-08-2011 01:16PM

leem6 wrote: »

Watching wrote: »

For those that followed the thread from beginning, I have city west test on Monday.

Mwahahahahahhahahaha:D

Has anyone received the email with details re: next Monday's assessment?

Can anyone tell me where in city west its being held ? Got the phone call last thurs from a guy called ian telling me its tomorrow thursday from 9-1.30 but im still awaiting the email , ive rang but leanne at the help desk just says il get him to ring but its getting too close for comfort at this stage

Kromdar · 10-08-2011 01:29PM

focusowner wrote: »

Can anyone tell me where in city west its being held ? Got the phone call last thurs from a guy called ian telling me its tomorrow thursday from 9-1.30 but im still awaiting the email , ive rang but leanne at the help desk just says il get him to ring but its getting too close for comfort at this stage

and for the previous poster too, i got the email today for monday afternoon.

"Venue: Citywest Hotel (please click here for directions: www.citywesthotel.com/gettinghere.html) "

focusowner · 10-08-2011 01:30PM

Kromdar wrote: »

focusowner wrote: »

Can anyone tell me where in city west its being held ? Got the phone call last thurs from a guy called ian telling me its tomorrow thursday from 9-1.30 but im still awaiting the email , ive rang but leanne at the help desk just says il get him to ring but its getting too close for comfort at this stage

and for the previous poster too, i got the email today for monday afternoon.

"Venue: Citywest Hotel (please click here for directions: www.citywesthotel.com/gettinghere.html) "

Legend

breckans · 10-08-2011 03:15PM

Just did phone interview, Emily said 15 mins but took 8! Dont know if thats good or bad. She was very nice and helpful, messed up at start but finished well. Hear from them withen next week. Good luck to all of ye.
P.S Example of team work! Would love to help ye more but i'll prob get killed!

breckans · 10-08-2011 03:16PM

Just did phone interview, Emily said 15 mins but took 8! Dont know if thats good or bad. She was very nice and helpful, messed up at start but finished well. Hear from them withen next week. Good luck to all of ye.
P.S Example of team work! Would love to help ye more but i'll prob get killed!

focusowner · 10-08-2011 09:53PM

breckans wrote: »

Just did phone interview, Emily said 15 mins but took 8! Dont know if thats good or bad. She was very nice and helpful, messed up at start but finished well. Hear from them withen next week. Good luck to all of ye.
P.S Example of team work! Would love to help ye more but i'll prob get killed!

Just here in citywest now decided to stay the night as its a nice drive first thing in the morning

Got the confirmation of the course by phone at 4pm lol better late than never i suppose

msg11 · 11-08-2011 01:02AM

Still no word back from them. Not hoping for much at this stage. I will say this, who ever is behind the organising of this it's bloody disgraceful.

Holding out for so long on people and not telling them are they at the next stage or not.

I have sent them two e-mails asking basically what's going on. No reply back to either.

A few keystrokes with a keyboard and pop a few e-mail addresses into the computer screen and tell us, Yes or No.

thefinalstage · 11-08-2011 09:45AM

msg11 wrote: »

Still no word back from them. Not hoping for much at this stage. I will say this, who ever is behind the organising of this it's bloody disgraceful.

Holding out for so long on people and not telling them are they at the next stage or not.

I have sent them two e-mails asking basically what's going on. No reply back to either.

A few keystrokes with a keyboard and pop a few e-mail addresses into the computer screen and tell us, Yes or No.

Why not call them?

knotknowbody · 11-08-2011 11:29AM

breckans wrote: »

Just did phone interview, Emily said 15 mins but took 8! Dont know if thats good or bad. She was very nice and helpful, messed up at start but finished well. Hear from them withen next week. Good luck to all of ye.
P.S Example of team work! Would love to help ye more but i'll prob get killed!

Done my phone interview on Monday, again Emily said 15 minutes but mine was only 10, was a bit annoyed with myself as I messed up a question in the middle and thought that she cut it short and I was out, but got the call this morning and will be visiting Citywest next week, so a short phone interview is not necessarily bad.

Look at it this way maybe you gave concise answers that got to the point while others waffled a bit and that's why it was shorter, good look to all still waiting.

msg11 · 11-08-2011 01:41PM

poisonedstream wrote: »

Why not call them?

Is an e-mail not as good as a phone call these days ? Do you have a number for them and I will give them a ring tomorrow.

focusowner · 11-08-2011 02:35PM

Did the assessment today and have to say such a nice bunch of people doing the assessment , if i get further i hope the rest are as decent

Kromdar · 11-08-2011 03:26PM

msg11 wrote: »

Is an e-mail not as good as a phone call these days ? Do you have a number for them and I will give them a ring tomorrow.

contact details, as seen at the bottom of an email i got

Freephone: 1800 50 60 70
Email: apprentice@eircom.ie
Website: www.eircom.net/apprentice

afaik, the phone number gets you through to the company doing the screening process, rather than eircom, but thats who you want to talk to really.

breckans · 11-08-2011 06:55PM

Got call myself today to citywest next Wed. Waiting for e-mail she promised. She said it was Fancy dress so hope ye all turn up in yere costumes!!!

leem6 · 12-08-2011 12:12PM

Got assessment ononday afternoon myself, just wondering if someone could please pm me with copy of email as I've been calling them all week but still no sign of them forwarding it on to me.

axiom · 12-08-2011 01:07PM

seems like alls not lost ....

did my online assesment near 3 weeks back and only got a call about the telephone interview yesterday ....

which itself isn't for another week or so .... seems like it's still gonna be a long road ahead

SmudgeS20K16 · 13-08-2011 08:11PM

SmudgeS20K16 wrote: »

I applied on July 25th, did the aptitude tests on July 27th, got a phone call 8 days later on August 4th to say I had a phone interview today.

Just after finishing it (16 minutes in total) and think it went fairly well.
I'd be hopeful to get through to the next round so fingers crossed.

The lady said the next round is a day assessment in Dublin with some hands-on tasks.
Then a one-to-one interview followed by a medical / eye test.
Salary is 19k for first year.
Hours are 8:30 to 5 Mon to Fri, no shift work and the locations are Drogheda, Dundalk, Dublin and Portlaoise.

Good luck everyone!!

Oh and are most of you males or are there any other females getting on successfully??

Quick update.....

got a call on Thursday (August 11th) to say I got through to the next round.

I'll be in Citywest on Wednesday next, August 17th.
Just got the email and I'll be there from 9:45 for 3 hours.

focusowner · 13-08-2011 10:02PM

Quick update.....

got a call on Thursday (August 11th) to say I got through to the next round.

I'll be in Citywest on Wednesday next, August 17th.
Just got the email and I'll be there from 9:45 for 3 hours.[/Quote]

Best of luck apparantly 2% of total applicants were female so its good to see that you will get to assessment stage

NinjaNikki · 14-08-2011 02:36PM

Hi, did anyone get a call for an interview this Friday coming??

evosteo · 17-08-2011 05:21PM

jus an update, got a phone call at 4pm today (17th) to say i got through to the next round,

assessment in city west at 1.45 on monday the 22th for 3 hours,

did the test on the 24th july, and phone interview on the 28th of july, and honestly i lost hope on this last week after hearing nothing for so long.

hope there not scraping the bottom of the barrel ha ha:eek:

bobdole968 · 17-08-2011 09:35PM

where is the citywest hotel
when i check google i get 2 hotels one in dublin center and another outside the city

focusowner · 17-08-2011 09:46PM

bobdole968 wrote: »

where is the citywest hotel
when i check google i get 2 hotels one in dublin center and another outside the city

Take the n7 exit off the m50 southbound and you cant miss it ul pass the big eircom building at the citywest business park and take the next exit on the left sign posted for city west hotel on the right hand side about a mile in , the assessment is on third floor of the hotel

bobdole968 · 17-08-2011 10:16PM

thanks for the info

Billy... · 19-08-2011 01:48AM

The waiting game...

axiom · 22-08-2011 04:02PM

anyone any more info on that assesment day ? what's involved etc...

wonder how many are left in the running ... anyone been for an interview yet ?

focusowner · 22-08-2011 05:56PM

well the good news for those that reached assessment stage is that ur in the last 300 and i think that this week is the last week of assessments from what i could make out

as for the day itself nothing that can be told that wont ruin it for you or those that are yet to do it apart from the following

turn up early

dress smart ( dont turn up in trainers and a hoodie) shirt and trousers type of thing

be polite , the instructors are very nice and be nice in return

relax its not too stressful

speak up when they ask a question and keep quiet when ur supposed to listen and you wont go too far wrong

ps best of luck

evosteo · 22-08-2011 06:43PM

found out that they will be taking on 70 apprentices instead of the original 50 due to the high volume and calibare of the applicants.

approx 6000 applied and 6% were chosen for the assessment stage

assesments running this week into next week and then the interview selections will take place,

will be let know by phone call either way

Eircom apprenticeship

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