Eircom apprenticeship

yeah but isnt there an interview in the assesment?

Just after doing assessment this morning. Not going to say any details in particular because that would be irrisponsible. Arccosh's post on page 104 is good advice. There is nothing you can really do only study typical interview questions like any job interview. The day started for me at 8:45 you wait in a seating area with the other candidates. 10 in total which are split into two groups from the start on. Eircoms info on the assesment day is all you need to know really. There is no big surprise just be yourself its a friendly relaxed enough atmosphere. They talk you trough everything and make you feel at home/ congratulate you etc.

One tip is to have copies of lc results,driving license and passport if you have one and the passport photo. From the questions i asked this is some info on the campaign.
If you have not got assesment date now dont expect to get one. There are 275 candidates left in the process out of 3000. Assesments are 20 people each day (10 every half day) for the next 3 weeks. There is what i would call a proper interview on the day. Unlike the last campaign where there was an interview stage after, the interview is incorperated into assesment day.

The woman i talked to said there might be a further one at a later stage but there are no plans to have one. Id say they are leaving enough time just in case they need to have another one as it is new to have it all in one day and are seeing how it goes. In my opinion i dont think there is a need for another one. It seemed thorough enough.

She said candidates will hear news on results a few weeks after assessments are done(may at some stage) the next stage after that is preliminary offer of places provided references and medical are all good. They actually plan to take 75 apprentices in sept(faq's said 60). One question i asked which i feel is very important(to me anyway) they stated the best apprentices will be offered a permanent position with eircom. I asked is there any particular number of apprentices they intend to keep. She said that there is no maximum or minimum ammoumt and that it wholly depends on performance during apprentiseship. I said so if all the apprentises are good would there be positions for all of them and she said there would be which makes me feel alot better about the whole thing.

As for dress code most wore shoes pants and shirt+tie some had jacket.one or two had jeans shirt and nice jumper but all are acceptable and no one looked out of place or under/over dressed. No need to dress like you are going to a wedding. I saw the group after us and they seemed to be the same. I would advise anyone far away that is doing it in the morning to stay somwhere close it just takes that bit of extra pressure off that no one needs.

I wouldnt advise anyone to give much away on this because firstly there is no need to as id say people will do just as good without any info and secondly you can be sure there are eircom lads watching this

Hope this helps

Its broken down into stages. Was there at 8:40. Finnished at 11:30 out the door 10 min later after i asked the few questions. I think the second group started at 12:30 so id say anyone on second half of day will be out at 3:30 max as long as lunch dosnt affect the process.

Thanks for that! Best of luck

oakfire wrote:

Some great info on here. Doing my assessment on Wednesday. I see a few people mentioned a FAQ section... Where is this? Is it on eircom site or is it the recruitment agency's site?

Just Google Eircom apprentice and you should find it

thekopend wrote: »

Just after doing assessment this morning. Not going to say any details in particular because that would be irrisponsible. Arccosh's post on page 104 is good advice. There is nothing you can really do only study typical interview questions like any job interview. The day started for me at 8:45 you wait in a seating area with the other candidates. 10 in total which are split into two groups from the start on. Eircoms info on the assesment day is all you need to know really. There is no big surprise just be yourself its a friendly relaxed enough atmosphere. They talk you trough everything and make you feel at home/ congratulate you etc.

One tip is to have copies of lc results,driving license and passport if you have one and the passport photo. From the questions i asked this is some info on the campaign.
If you have not got assesment date now dont expect to get one. There are 275 candidates left in the process out of 3000. Assesments are 20 people each day (10 every half day) for the next 3 weeks. There is what i would call a proper interview on the day. Unlike the last campaign where there was an interview stage after, the interview is incorperated into assesment day.

The woman i talked to said there might be a further one at a later stage but there are no plans to have one. Id say they are leaving enough time just in case they need to have another one as it is new to have it all in one day and are seeing how it goes. In my opinion i dont think there is a need for another one. It seemed thorough enough.

She said candidates will hear news on results a few weeks after assessments are done(may at some stage) the next stage after that is preliminary offer of places provided references and medical are all good. They actually plan to take 75 apprentices in sept(faq's said 60). One question i asked which i feel is very important(to me anyway) they stated the best apprentices will be offered a permanent position with eircom. I asked is there any particular number of apprentices they intend to keep. She said that there is no maximum or minimum ammoumt and that it wholly depends on performance during apprentiseship. I said so if all the apprentises are good would there be positions for all of them and she said there would be which makes me feel alot better about the whole thing.

As for dress code most wore shoes pants and shirt+tie some had jacket.one or two had jeans shirt and nice jumper but all are acceptable and no one looked out of place or under/over dressed. No need to dress like you are going to a wedding. I saw the group after us and they seemed to be the same. I would advise anyone far away that is doing it in the morning to stay somwhere close it just takes that bit of extra pressure off that no one needs.

I wouldnt advise anyone to give much away on this because firstly there is no need to as id say people will do just as good without any info and secondly you can be sure there are eircom lads watching this

Hope this helps

Regarding the dress code, the suit without the jacket would be alright? Thanks again for the post and best of luck to you and all da lads on this

thekopend wrote: »

Thats what i went with. Suit pants shirt and tie. Normal black pants would be grand too tho

Neat dress - normal black pants are fine -

For anyone who's done the assessment, is it one on one or all group activities for the day? And can anyone tell me if they asked if you had holidays booked for the summer?

anyone have any good places for parking near eircom? also anyone who's done the interview itself how long did it take?

ok thanks for that

I'm driving up from Cork early tomorrow, I know there's a carpark right next door to eircom hsq, supervalu I think, it's 2 hours free parking, not sure if you can pay for longer than that though?

There is a supervalue that u can park in its free for two hours but 10 euro an hour after that. Ye wont get a chance to go out during assesment. There is 1 group assessment and 1 by yourself. Interview is 30 min long. Id reccommend heuston car park or even the ashling hotel its bout 5 min walk across d luas bridge from eircom its 2 euro an hour and you just get a ticket and pay what you owe before leaving.

TheInspector wrote: »

How did people get on today? Mines tomorrow,and for the life of me I don't know what to prepare for, is the interview tough?

How'd you get in yourself, inspector?

TheInspector wrote: »

Wasn't too bad at all, only hard bit is the face to face. Other than that it's prity much common sense.

Just for people wondering, I got there an hour and half early, so went to get a coffee and Sambo in hueston, cheapest thing I could find was 5 euro and coffee was 3, I left and found a subway right behind the eircom building, fairly empty and has plenty of seats and toilet. So if you get there early it might be worth your while getting a coffee around there. Good place to read over notes.

Having completed the assessments how do ye find eircom so far in the brief time you spent in headquarters and from those staff you met ?

There was a good few from eircom throughout the day. The 4 i think from e cut just kind of organised the candidates for the day and brought them around. The marking of candidates is in eircoms hands now, e cut are just organising at this stage. All those assessors that came into the room just after the phychologist and e cut staff spoke and took documents were eircom. They are present as you are briefly saying who you are. Then they follow you for the group assesment. There was 6 people at least there whatching when we did group excersise split between each table, from eircom. Some of these then did the individual assessments and then 2 other eircom people interviewed you.