Civil Service Clerical Officer Campaign 2017 (Dublin)

Jsman11 · 08-11-2019 8:16pm

ADevaney wrote: »

Got an offer today; very happy with it;
Start 18th so it looks like our wait is finally over.....ðŸ˜

Congratulations! Just wondering was your offer city centre based?

Jsman11 · 08-11-2019 8:24pm

macokako wrote: »

Hey everyone, just wondering if anyone is in the same boat.
Completed reference forms for AGS in August, got a call two weeks ago to say my references were not valid anymore as i haven't been in employment for the last two years (left job to stay at home with kids, applied for competition not long after)
They asked for a character reference for the last two years which i provided but have heard nothing since ???

I think it's just that they are only looking for a reference for the last year from everyone and the fact you haven't worked over that time they asked for a character reference. I wouldn't worry just yet. Have they contacted the character reference you gave?

Jsman11 · 08-11-2019 8:52pm

If I was to guess it would be mid to late January before they start to offer the majority of us places. The timing seems to match up with Brexit with most of are reference being checked two weeks or so ago which would of had us ready for if it happened. Then they got another extension so we basically just have to wait. There will still be a few vacancies opening so they will still be hiring the odd person up until then. As I said it's just a guess but this is just what I'm telling myself so that I'm not panicking too much.

Samuel T. Cogley · 08-11-2019 8:54pm

Nihiyminoy wrote: »

None of us it seems have really heard anything since the references, I honestly feel like they’ll drag this into the new year

Have you made contact with HR in Navan?

macokako · 09-11-2019 10:02am

Jsman11 wrote: »

I think it's just that they are only looking for a reference for the last year from everyone and the fact you haven't worked over that time they asked for a character reference. I wouldn't worry just yet. Have they contacted the character reference you gave?

no they haven't been contacted yet

ADevaney · 10-11-2019 7:23pm

My post is a city suburb; got the call about week after references were checked....

Nihiyminoy · 10-11-2019 10:03pm

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Have you made contact with HR in Navan?

I did a number of times in relation to other stages of the process but not in terms of a start date and location because going off of other people’s experience on here, most said that after 2 weeks of our references being contacted that we would receive a start date and location but obviously it has gone over that amount of time. I’m going to give them another week to contact me and if they do not, then I am going to call them everyday relentlessly as if there had been a death in the family because all of us here that are waiting on the same thing have the same thing in common, and that is that we are all now compromised within our current jobs as because of the reference checks they know we are leaving so it’s a constant thing of being given the worst work and hours to do because “ah sure they’re leaving anyway” . So to sum up my little rant, if they think they can throw all our files into a pile for over the Christmas and just go and enjoy their time off while we’re all reliant on this single phone call, then they have another thing coming. This process will be entering its third year shortly so it needs to end, enough said.

macokako · 11-11-2019 1:27pm

Nihiyminoy wrote: »

I did a number of times in relation to other stages of the process but not in terms of a start date and location because going off of other people’s experience on here, most said that after 2 weeks of our references being contacted that we would receive a start date and location but obviously it has gone over that amount of time. I’m going to give them another week to contact me and if they do not, then I am going to call them everyday relentlessly as if there had been a death in the family because all of us here that are waiting on the same thing have the same thing in common, and that is that we are all now compromised within our current jobs as because of the reference checks they know we are leaving so it’s a constant thing of being given the worst work and hours to do because “ah sure they’re leaving anyway” . So to sum up my little rant, if they think they can throw all our files into a pile for over the Christmas and just go and enjoy their time off while we’re all reliant on this single phone call, then they have another thing coming. This process will be entering its
third year shortly so it needs to end, enough said.

so do you think it will be the New Year before we hear anything?
I've been offered work for December so just wondering whether or not to take it?
i hear your frustration btw

Nihiyminoy · 11-11-2019 6:03pm

macokako wrote: »

so do you think it will be the New Year before we hear anything?
I've been offered work for December so just wondering whether or not to take it?
i hear your frustration btw

Honestly it’s all just speculation at this point but if you were to judge it based on the timing that it has taken to get this far in the process then yeah I think you’ll see Santa Claus himself quicker than you’ll actually see anybody in HR lift a phone. I think you should because you just can’t rely on these unpredictable people. It’s only four weeks of work anyway so it’s not like you’re properly committing. Extremely frustrated haha.

macokako · 12-11-2019 2:32pm

Nihiyminoy wrote: »

Honestly it’s all just speculation at this point but if you were to judge it based on the timing that it has taken to get this far in the process then yeah I think you’ll see Santa Claus himself quicker than you’ll actually see anybody in HR lift a phone. I think you should because you just can’t rely on these unpredictable people. It’s only four weeks of work anyway so it’s not like you’re properly committing. Extremely frustrated haha.

🤣🤣 very frustrating

Nihiyminoy · 21-11-2019 3:13pm

Anybody hear anything??

rsl1976 · 21-11-2019 3:57pm

Nihiyminoy wrote: »

Anybody hear anything??

What's happening with yours. Did they contact your references?

Nihiyminoy · 22-11-2019 12:29am

rsl1976 wrote: »

What's happening with yours. Did they contact your references?

No idea, yeah weeks ago but still quiet

KDBkev123 · 22-11-2019 12:38am

Heard nothing, references contacted weeks ago as well. Looks like the whole process will take a full year considering we applied for AGS specifically in February when they made an expression of interest. Stuck in retail for Christmas....

rsl1976 · 22-11-2019 9:33am

Bit crap when they have already contacted references to then not follow up with the job offer. I was sent the details of where i was going within a few days of them contacting mine

macokako · 28-11-2019 11:28am

nothing !!!

Nihiyminoy · 01-12-2019 5:44pm

And now it’s December, so not this year then.

dodi1973 · 07-12-2019 7:17pm

Anything new

lena1602 · 11-12-2019 3:11pm

Finally got some news everyoneðŸ˜„
Just received a call from HR earlier and got a location assigned (National Bureau of Criminal Investigation).

Start will be in January. So I'm sure you'll hear something soon enough as well.

rsl1976 · 11-12-2019 3:26pm

That's great news just before Xmas.

Sounds like it might be an interesting department.

Congratulations!!!!

dodi1973 · 06-01-2020 2:14pm

Anyone hear anything new

Nihiyminoy · 06-01-2020 8:18pm

dodi1973 wrote: »

Anyone hear anything new

I did, I actually did end up getting called in the end, so thanks everyone for all the info and advice over the last few months.

rsl1976 · 06-01-2020 8:22pm

That's brilliant, congratulations. Do you know where you are going?

KDBkev123 · 06-01-2020 11:14pm

I actually emailed them earlier to see what the story was. I then got a call in the evening which I missed, and 10 minutes later I got an email saying they’re still awaiting vacancies, but why call me if it wasnt for an offer? So now I’m confused if I should call them back or not due to the email saying nothing really...

KDBkev123 · 06-01-2020 11:16pm

Nihiyminoy wrote: »

I did, I actually did end up getting called in the end, so thanks everyone for all the info and advice over the last few months.

Where and when mate? About time especially all the hardship you had to go through in this process! Delighted for you

mac1ntosh · 06-01-2020 11:18pm

Definitely call them back, that email was probably generic!

KDBkev123 · 07-01-2020 12:01am

mac1ntosh wrote: »

Definitely call them back, that email was probably generic!

Thought that too! Suppose I should ring back and just enquire again it won’t do any harm. Just weird how they rang only when I emailed them this morning.

Nihiyminoy · 07-01-2020 12:16am

rsl1976 wrote: »

That's brilliant, congratulations. Do you know where you are going?

Thank you, I do, I’m actually already there, I just haven’t been on this thread since.

Nihiyminoy · 07-01-2020 12:19am

KDBkev123 wrote: »

Thought that too! Suppose I should ring back and just enquire again it won’t do any harm. Just weird how they rang only when I emailed them this morning.

Put it this way, they wouldn’t bother ringing you to tell you something that they could just send in an email to fob you off so if I was you I’d be calling that number back in the morning.

KDBkev123 · 08-01-2020 1:27am

I called back, they said expect to wait another month so that’s 2 months in my mind so I’m mentally prepared for a start in April now! &#55357;&#56834;

KDBkev123 · 20-01-2020 7:41pm

Anyone else get that email about shift work patterns in AGS?

Nihiyminoy · 26-01-2020 3:55pm

I’m hoping that some of you got called in the end??

KDBkev123 · 28-01-2020 12:35am

I rang them last week in regards to the expression of interest for shift work patterns and he explained the whole process in general...basically there are little to no vacancies at the minute so people are only being appointed when a vacancy arises, due to retirement, promotion to EO, transfer etc that’s why it’s so slow. He said last year they had an easy time filling vacancies because there were so many but now it’s very slow moving...

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