[DFB] Temporary Emergency Services Controller

GoProGaming · 01-08-2013 01:53PM

emails came out earlier today to check your inbox on public jobs. things are set for the 19th-22nd of august with prep material being issued on the 12th to us.

Dublinmackem · 01-08-2013 02:22PM

GoProGaming wrote: »

emails came out earlier today to check your inbox on public jobs. things are set for the 19th-22nd of august with prep material being issued on the 12th to us.

I got notification through text message to check public jobs a/c roll on 19th -22nd keyboards at the ready so

lonfire1 · 01-08-2013 08:38PM

How are all your typing skills? It's not my strong point :-(

Mycroft H · 02-08-2013 12:08AM

Mines around 35wpm if it take it handy to avoid mistakes, anything faster errors start to creep in.

lonfire1 · 02-08-2013 12:29PM

BX 19 wrote: »

Mines around 35wpm if it take it handy to avoid mistakes, anything faster errors start to creep in.

Thanks . Il have to get practicing so ... Did anyone hear on the number of people that applied for the job ??

GoProGaming · 02-08-2013 01:59PM

alot, ive heard numbers from 6,000-25,000.
hard to guess really, would the dcc release the figure if we rang them?

lonfire1 · 02-08-2013 02:53PM

GoProGaming wrote: »

alot, ive heard numbers from 6,000-25,000.
hard to guess really, would the dcc release the figure if we rang them?

Would you think that many applied ? I actually rang public jobs and they would nt give me a number .. So I asked was it in the thousands and said that it wasnt .Maybe she was telling me what I wanted to hear. I'd say a lot of people missed out on it as it was a tempory position in the control room , and maybe they didn't see it opening into fire fighter positions ... Just a thought ....

Mycroft H · 02-08-2013 04:11PM

HR in DCC said to me that they've had more applications than they expected. They said they were inundated but wouldn't tell me the figure.

Arruabarrena · 03-08-2013 08:47PM

Nowhere near the figures banded about in here. Good luck to all

shauna6989 · 08-08-2013 02:55PM

Friend in dfb said figure was 35,000

Arruabarrena · 09-08-2013 11:55PM

Divide that by 17 more like

Rob32 · 12-08-2013 05:41PM

Anyone do the practice online assessments yet?

GoProGaming · 12-08-2013 06:05PM

going to give them a bash tomorow. ive a less busy day and a quiet house tomoroww afternoon to give it my best shot. how many practice tests can we take in total?

miju · 12-08-2013 06:25PM

Rob32 wrote: »

Anyone do the practice online assessments yet?

Done it there am a bit pissed of with it to be honest. I've worked in a very busy call centre and I type at 65wpm touch typing so well used to these types of scenarios and found this test poxy hard.

Not because of the speed required but because it's hard to distinguish her English accent speaking so fast and its even worse trying to spell place names from England

Literally had 2 seconds to spare by the final screen. How did anyone else find it?

Rob32 · 13-08-2013 12:28PM

miju wrote: »

Done it there am a bit pissed of with it to be honest. I've worked in a very busy call centre and I type at 65wpm touch typing so well used to these types of scenarios and found this test poxy hard.

Not because of the speed required but because it's hard to distinguish her English accent speaking so fast and its even worse trying to spell place names from England

Literally had 2 seconds to spare by the final screen. How did anyone else find it?

Same issue I had, Id never heard of half the places they needed me to spell haha.

miju · 13-08-2013 01:15PM

Rob32 wrote: »

Same issue I had, Id never heard of half the places they needed me to spell haha.

Exactly, and it's fine that you can hit F9 and they will spell the word for you but that loses time and is not I think a fair representation of place name spelling.

I remember when the lads in the UK came over to our call centre for a few weeks they had awful, awful trouble trying to get the Irish place name spellings

donkey balls · 13-08-2013 01:43PM

I tried to log on last night with the login details provided by PAS it kept coming up invalid login, Also when I clicked on to the other link for the call center it said that my session had expired.
Anyone else got similar problems?

lonfire1 · 13-08-2013 03:26PM

donkey balls wrote: »

I tried to log on last night with the login details provided by PAS it kept coming up invalid login, Also when I clicked on to the other link for the call center it said that my session had expired.
Anyone else got similar problems?

When you log on to your practice test you get another log in number , copy and paste it and log in with that one , if you can understand what I'm saying . That's what I did anyway .

donkey balls · 13-08-2013 03:36PM

Thanks will give it a go later tonight when I finish work .

GoProGaming · 13-08-2013 04:54PM

between her accent, quality of audio and the speed at which she speaks, lets pray it's easier on the day of the actual test. it was managable, but not the best ive ever done.

donkey balls · 13-08-2013 08:58PM

Just an up date I managed to login this evening no problem jaysus the call center girl talks at some speed,I thought flying in the US dealing with fast talking ATC was bad :eek:.

spygirl · 13-08-2013 10:30PM

Still not managed to get any of the practice tests to open for me....anybody any tips please??

lonfire1 · 13-08-2013 10:45PM

spygirl wrote: »

Still not managed to get any of the practice tests to open for me....anybody any tips please??

When you first log in you use a number from public jobs , then you should get another log in code , open a new page and try the new log in number .

lonfire1 · 13-08-2013 10:48PM

Just done a few tests myself ... Please tell me that some of you found the verbal reasoning hard. I nearly s.... Myself when I seen all the reading that had to be done .

spygirl · 13-08-2013 11:10PM

lonfire1 wrote: »

When you first log in you use a number from public jobs , then you should get another log in code , open a new page and try the new log in number .

not even getting that far, telling me security settings won't let mee download the file. need to update flash playeer. won't let me, tried disabling security for a few mins even but still nada
:eek:

GoProGaming · 13-08-2013 11:20PM

lonfire1 wrote: »

Just done a few tests myself ... Please tell me that some of you found the verbal reasoning hard. I nearly s.... Myself when I seen all the reading that had to be done .

if found it handy enough, except being afraid of running out of time. there was a hint in each question of what section you needed to skip to to get the info required

lonfire1 · 13-08-2013 11:52PM

spygirl wrote: »

not even getting that far, telling me security settings won't let mee download the file. need to update flash playeer. won't let me, tried disabling security for a few mins even but still nada
:eek:

Give it a kick so :-)

lonfire1 · 14-08-2013 12:01AM

GoProGaming wrote: »

if found it handy enough, except being afraid of running out of time. there was a hint in each question of what section you needed to skip to to get the info required

I ran out of time ... Big time, il have to get my finger out or I'm done !

GoProGaming · 14-08-2013 08:04AM

spygirl wrote: »

not even getting that far, telling me security settings won't let mee download the file. need to update flash playeer. won't let me, tried disabling security for a few mins even but still nada
:eek:

get yourself to your local library. free to join and free internet access.

D Trent · 14-08-2013 01:38PM

spygirl wrote: »

not even getting that far, telling me security settings won't let mee download the file. need to update flash playeer. won't let me, tried disabling security for a few mins even but still nada
:eek:

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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