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Prison Officer Recruitment 2016

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    #62
    OskerWilde!
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭OskerWilde!


    So has anyone done their stage 1 aptitudes??

    Found them a bit difficult, think the timing at 17mins was cutting fine.


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    #63
    Leanne7011
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭Leanne7011


    OskerWilde! wrote: »
    Think that's a piss take there fyi!!!

    Ya I grasped that thanks :)


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    #64
    jackthelad85
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭jackthelad85


    @oskerwilde Hi, I just got back from Budapest this morning, and I'm going to do my test later. I have no hope of passing it lol I am illiterate when it comes to maths of any kind. Could you give me any hint whatsoever of what kind of questions were asked?


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    #65
    OskerWilde!
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭OskerWilde!


    I can't actually even describe them. It's all percentages and percentage comparisons . In the end I just flew through it as 17mins is just not enough time. Have a calculater !! After that, best of luck!!


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    #66
    CorkColin
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭CorkColin


    OskerWilde! wrote: »
    I can't actually even describe them. It's all percentages and percentage comparisons . In the end I just flew through it as 17mins is just not enough time. Have a calculater !! After that, best of luck!!

    Are we allowed to use a calculator :o ??


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    #67
    OskerWilde!
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭OskerWilde!


    Yep, but timing is crucial!! Firstly you'll need a dictionary or thesaurus to Unjumble the English jargon that they've written..(hahaha)!


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    #68
    CorkColin
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭CorkColin


    OskerWilde! wrote: »
    Yep, but timing is crucial!! Firstly you'll need a dictionary or thesaurus to Unjumble the English jargon that they've written..(hahaha)!

    How'd ya know your allowed use one? well i tried the "practice" ones and its safe to say i'd be getting 0 without a calculator haha! even the wording on some of the verbal reasoning one was tuff stuff :)


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    #69
    User16
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭User16


    yep, Ive been practicing the tests on the websites that let you keep doing the timed ones. Think I answered 3 maths ones. Then ran outta time!! Im bricking it for the real ones. was feeling really thick, when i read on here that everyone seems to be struggling with them.
    Im alright at maths problems generally, but understanding the questions are hard on their own without even trying to answer them. I didnt even know what they were asking of me. But I hope that the other tests will carry me through... Fingers crossed...


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    #70
    Leanne7011
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭Leanne7011


    I finished the aptitude about an hour ago but just got a reminder email telling me to do it by tomorrow. Has everyone got this? I'm worried my results didn't save


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    #71
    PoorAuldDivil
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭PoorAuldDivil


    Just done there.......jesus those maths questions were tough enough anyway. A lot harder than the stage one for the Gardai, I found.


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    #72
    OskerWilde!
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭OskerWilde!


    Leanne7011 wrote: »
    I finished the aptitude about an hour ago but just got a reminder email telling me to do it by tomorrow. Has everyone got this? I'm worried my results didn't save

    I'd log back in if I were you and check.
    I didn't receive a reminder email, but maybe as you only done it-the email was just automatically generated at a certain time today.


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    #73
    User16
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭User16


    Up half the night trying to log in to do the tests. It says my username or password is wrong. I'm ****ed now. :(😞😞😞😭


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    #74
    BlackcatDub
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭BlackcatDub


    PoorAuldDivil wrote: »
    Just done there.......jesus those maths questions were tough enough anyway. A lot harder than the stage one for the Gardai, I found.

    Absolutely, I passed the Prison Support Officer and Clerical Officer numerical tests with good scores, however this was by far the toughest numerical to date, the rest was fine but reckon this numerical will whittle numbers down fairly swiftly.


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    #75
    Leanne7011
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭Leanne7011


    User16 wrote: »
    Up half the night trying to log in to do the tests. It says my username or password is wrong. I'm ****ed now. :(😞😞😞😭

    Did you email them? Hopefully they'll email back by 9am and you'll get it done.


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    #76
    Leanne7011
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭Leanne7011


    OskerWilde! wrote: »
    I'd log back in if I were you and check.
    I didn't receive a reminder email, but maybe as you only done it-the email was just automatically generated at a certain time today.

    When I log back in it says everything is completed. I didn't get an email saying that anything was submitted though but I just assumed I would.


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    #77
    murphy2
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭murphy2


    Leanne7011 wrote: »
    Did you email them? Hopefully they'll email back by 9am and you'll get it done.

    It's not your public jobs I.D and password, there is one underneath the link to the test in your message board unique to you, maybe that's not the problem though?


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    #78
    User16
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭User16


    murphy2 wrote: »
    It's not your public jobs I.D and password, there is one underneath the link to the test in your message board unique to you, maybe that's not the problem though?

    And dopey here didn't see it!! Lol
    When I did I logged in and completed it. Maths was much more do-able than the practice questions. Much to my relief.. fingers crossed now.. good luck to all and thanks for the responses..


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    #79
    User16
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭User16


    jackthelad85 wrote: »
    @oskerwilde Hi, I just got back from Budapest this morning, and I'm going to do my test later. I have no hope of passing it lol I am illiterate when it comes to maths of any kind. Could you give me any hint whatsoever of what kind of questions were asked?

    Things like a graph of company profits. Then ur asked if they earned 50,000 in 2009 and their profits rose by 15% per year, how much did they make in 2012.. etc


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    #80
    CorkColin
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭CorkColin


    I thought the numerical was unbelievably hard :( Just hope to get a pass and get a chance to do the supervised one at least :)


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    #81
    Shuttle666
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Shuttle666


    I think it mentioned somewhere in the instructions that you wouldn't get any notification that everything was submitted.


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    #82
    Leanne7011
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭Leanne7011


    Shuttle666 wrote: »
    I think it mentioned somewhere in the instructions that you wouldn't get any notification that everything was submitted.

    You're right. I remember reading something like that now. Does anyone know how many will go forward to the next stage?


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    #83
    OskerWilde!
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭OskerWilde!


    It didn't say. Just said first results out in early September. Hate waiting..


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    #84
    Leanne7011
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭Leanne7011


    OskerWilde! wrote: »
    It didn't say. Just said first results out in early September. Hate waiting..

    I know. Fingers crossed for us anyway.


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    #85
    Iang87
    Registered Users Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Iang87


    So its early september we can expect to hear. Thankfully I found the maths questions relatively handy. I have been working in finance for 4 years and always had a good head for maths so that was good. The other 2 aspects I wouldnt be too confident on but sure we'll see.

    I've wanted to do this job for years. Set up my public jobs account for this notification 4 years ago so I'm hoping all goes well. Little worried about a physical as I had a knee operation last year so I'm afraid that will kill my chances. Anyone know just how demanding that physical is. I read the guards physical list and doubt i'd have got by that so I'm hoping this one is not as demanding


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    #86
    OskerWilde!
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭OskerWilde!


    Iang87 wrote: »
    So its early september we can expect to hear. Thankfully I found the maths questions relatively handy. I have been working in finance for 4 years and always had a good head for maths so that was good. The other 2 aspects I wouldnt be too confident on but sure we'll see.

    I've wanted to do this job for years. Set up my public jobs account for this notification 4 years ago so I'm hoping all goes well. Little worried about a physical as I had a knee operation last year so I'm afraid that will kill my chances. Anyone know just how demanding that physical is. I read the guards physical list and doubt i'd have got by that so I'm hoping this one is not as demanding

    Well I had major back surgery not so long ago so I'm hoping for the best.
    I know when I joined the guards the physical wasn't like it is now. I just hope I get that far with PO! Those maths were yuk and I found the others ok..


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    #87
    Yaknowyourself
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭Yaknowyourself


    Iang87 wrote: »
    So its early september we can expect to hear. Thankfully I found the maths questions relatively handy. I have been working in finance for 4 years and always had a good head for maths so that was good. The other 2 aspects I wouldnt be too confident on but sure we'll see.

    I've wanted to do this job for years. Set up my public jobs account for this notification 4 years ago so I'm hoping all goes well. Little worried about a physical as I had a knee operation last year so I'm afraid that will kill my chances. Anyone know just how demanding that physical is. I read the guards physical list and doubt i'd have got by that so I'm hoping this one is not as demanding

    Howa ya. The prison service fitness test is a 600m run between 2 cones 15 meters apart and is to be completed in 3 minutes. There's a run test with a fire extinguisher between 2 cones, not sure of the distance. There's a grip test on your strong hand and weak hand, not too sure on what pressure, it's something like 30lbs on your good hand. You'll also have to be able told a riot shield out in front of you off the ground for a minute. That's basically the test. You'll be grand. Best of luck with it all


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    #88
    Lawros Tache
    Registered Users Posts: 321 ✭✭Lawros Tache


    Hi ALL,

    Best of luck to all applying.

    I saw earlier on thread somebody was looking for a serving Officer to answer some questions.
    I'll gladly answer any questions asked but it'll be my honest opinion and may not necessarily be the answer you're looking for so please don't shoot the messenger. (I remember a similar situation the last recruitment drive and some people just couldn't accept what was being said to them in good faith)

    PM probably best, i wont answer anything specific on a public forum for obvious reasons.


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    #89
    Iang87
    Registered Users Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Iang87


    Yaknowyourself wrote: »
    Howa ya. The prison service fitness test is a 600m run between 2 cones 15 meters apart and is to be completed in 3 minutes. There's a run test with a fire extinguisher between 2 cones, not sure of the distance. There's a grip test on your strong hand and weak hand, not too sure on what pressure, it's something like 30lbs on your good hand. You'll also have to be able told a riot shield out in front of you off the ground for a minute. That's basically the test. You'll be grand. Best of luck with it all

    Thanks for that. I wouldnt worry about either of those. I'd just strap up the knee and away I go. Thanks for that


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    #90
    Leanne7011
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭Leanne7011


    Has anyone heard anything yet? Will we hear something either way or just if we progress?


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    #91
    Usernemises
    Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭Usernemises


    https://www.boards.ie/b/thread/2057333310

    Have a read of this anyone thinking of joining. This guy gives great insight into the job.


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