Clerical Officer 2020

doc22 wrote: »

I'd disagree as you have no idea of where the position will be in a neighboring county or own county. So if you get an offer for one end of a county that's you off the panel for the whole county if rejected.

The panel will move at the exact same pace if not slower due to lack of spare candidates on panels,a position will come in and be taken by someone on the panel regardless. This move doesn't benefit candidates in any way it puts more pressure on them to make blind decisions earlier in process. In the grand scheme PAS aren't processing that many jobs in regional locations to begin with without adding this nonsense

This was always the case, you never know where your going to be placed but if you go to interview for one county and subsquently refuse a offer, you wasted interview time for you and PAS.

In my case, i live on a county boundary so I wouldnt mind which I was called for however I know my second choice normally moves faster and most candidates in my 1st would have choose my 2nd choice also.

In this system, if they are offered interview for my 2nd and go, I would move up in my 1st choice county and if they refuse to go, I move up in my 2nd choice county 😀.

If a candidate picked one of my counties and an alternate and they are called to interview for my county it make no different to me because they were ahead of me anyways. If they refuse to go, they are off the panel and I move up in that county.

claregal1 wrote: »

Hi - anyone on this been called for interview for Limerick yet ? If yes , would you give rough idea of oom please .

Edit - Top 5 for both Sligo and Limerick have been called for interview

If these are in here can ye tell us what you were asked please? Fingers crossed for ye all!

claregal1 wrote:

Edit - Top 5 for both Sligo and Limerick have been called for interview

Best of luck ðŸ‘

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

You can hold off and wait for Carlow too but then you'd be off the Kilkenny panel if it came up first and you turned down the opportunity to interview for that region. Kilkenny and Carlow are reasonably nearby to each other so I'd probably just take whichever came up first.

Yes and I'm bang smack in the middle of both so it's much of a muchness thankfully

ladz wrote: »

If these are in here can ye tell us what you were asked please? Fingers crossed for ye all!

All interview questions for CO are pretty much the same (I did it twice) and based my answers using the STAR technique
They will be questions on the below: (taken from the booklet)
Teamwork, Customer Service & Communication Skills
Delivery of Results including Managing and Processing Information
Drive & Commitment
Specialist Knowledge, Expertise and Self Development. I passed twice (wasn’t placed first time as my oom ran out 2 before I was to be placed and am now in)
Write out answers to popular interview questions based on your experience and using the technique above with the competencies in mind and you’ll fly through.

Any chance of being called for interview for Galway at oom 170?

With a 95 place difference between my 1st and 2nd choices, I don't think I'll refuse my 1st if I get called. I'm guessing you can find out if you have moved further up the list on your second choice before you make any descision. If anyone on here has been interviewed already for this comp, did you get much notice? Thanks.

claregal1 wrote: »

Yes - Pas are only calling for interview as vacancies arise .

At least, if you get the call, you know theres a job there, should you pass the interview. I suppose we're all hoping panel doesnt expire before it gets down to us.

Hi everyone. I placed 8 for Laois and 17 for Tipperary. Does anyone know how far up in numbers (if any) they are in the above counties?

niallmacsuain wrote: »

I'm a TCO in DEASP. Hearing through the grapevine that there's a huge influx of new COs due in August in the department. Up to 1,000 apparently. But no word on how many will be permanent/temporary.

What counties

Carmol123 wrote: »

What counties

Wasn't mentioned. A colleague's husband who is in the DEASP tech team was told about it in a meeting.

Anyone on here been interviewed yet?

Only 1 has been called in Wexford so far.

Interviews taking place this week by zoom.