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PME Primary Teaching Interview

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  • #52
    midlandor
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭midlandor


    eimear8401 wrote: »
    I have just sent my application to Hibernia, how long before I hear back?
    Do they give you much notice for your interview?

    I applied the week before the deadline and no word yet. I was told it could be 2 weeks before I get an interview date.


  • #53
    midlandor
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭midlandor


    eimear8401 wrote: »
    I have just sent my application to Hibernia, how long before I hear back?
    Do they give you much notice for your interview?

    I got an email this morning saying that I am in an Interview queue and should get a phone call soon with an interview date. Have you heard back?


  • #54
    eimear8401
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭eimear8401


    No, but I applied for the Autumn intake. I hope I get another couple of weeks


  • #55
    tonycascarino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭tonycascarino


    thequarefellow wrote: »
    Unless you have a relative who can get you a job in a school afterwards don't do it. Hibernia (and the other colleges) are turning out huge numbers of newly qualified teachers - way more than there are jobs for. There will be about 500 in your class (There were 450 in September 2018 cohort - and that was just the September cohort. Add to that the April cohort and then all the others NQTs coming from other colleges - and back from the middle east, now that the minister is out there bribing them to come home!).The course is horrendous and way over priced. If you must - go to Scotland where they will practically pay you to study and convert the Irish requirement later. You probably won't need it anyway as majority of NQTs have to go abroad to get work where you will not be required to teach Irish. Honestly, don't take my word for it. Go in to any staff room in the country and meet the NQTs there scrambling about trying to find the scraps of subbing and maternity leaves that keep them hoping for a full time job for years on end.

    This. Take for instance Hibernia. It costs 15000 euro for the course + 2000 euro or so (between the cost and spending money) for the 2 Gaeltachts...all for a chance to sub teach for the rest of your time or at least for a very long time...Too many going for it, it is being saturated with graduates and there are not enough permanent jobs going around...


  • #56
    wacotaco
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭wacotaco


    Hi,

    How did people go about preparing for the Irish interview? I've haven't studied Irish in 12 years. The questions seem basic but I've nothing to study off atm. Should I look at doing grinds? There's a course in Dublin for 6 weeks (400euro) however I'm based in Galway.


  • #57
    Olivia Pope
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭Olivia Pope


    When are you hoping to interview wacotaco? I would contact the Irish department in NUIG and see if they run courses. I did a preparatory course in UCC, it was very good and I got a place first time round.


  • #58
    wacotaco
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭wacotaco


    Olivia Pope wrote: »
    When are you hoping to interview wacotaco? I would contact the Irish department in NUIG and see if they run courses. I did a preparatory course in UCC, it was very good and I got a place first time round.

    Deadline is june 3rd. I'd push booking the interview out as close to that so potentially 11/12 weeks.


  • #59
    Olivia Pope
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭Olivia Pope


    Hi Wacotaco, those course probably run from autumn to spring. If I was you I would find a very good Irish teacher and do Grinds. I had about 4 months from when I started my Irish until my interview. You could do your research online and draw up a comprehensive lists of questions that you might be asked. Write them down and then practice them with the teacher in the form of mock interviews. Make sure you include a good spread of the tenses. I did, I will, I would. I would definitely prepare something about brexit, covid 19, the housing crisis. Anything else topical. I was asked alot about my current occupation. What exactly do I do everyday. If I hadn't had that prepared it would have been very difficult.


  • #60
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Go back through the last page or two of posts here, most of the topics have been covered or mentioned.


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  • #61
    midlandor
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭midlandor


    wacotaco wrote: »
    Hi,

    How did people go about preparing for the Irish interview? I've haven't studied Irish in 12 years. The questions seem basic but I've nothing to study off atm. Should I look at doing grinds? There's a course in Dublin for 6 weeks (400euro) however I'm based in Galway.

    Ranganna.com have an online Hibernia Preparation course which I found very good. Conradh na Gaeilge often run a one day course a few weeks before interviews, so might be worth giving them a call too! Best of luck with the study!


  • #62
    wacotaco
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭wacotaco


    Thanks everyone for the advice!
    If anyone has any notes on aforementioned type questions I'd appreciate a pm .


  • #63
    wacotaco
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭wacotaco


    Hi all,

    Has anyone heard what's the stance regards interviews now? The closing date is June 3rd for the next intake.


  • #64
    Olivia Pope
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭Olivia Pope


    Hi Wacotaco,

    I am a current student due to go on SP in 12 days and I have not been Contacted yet. Sit tight. They will probably try and sort out current students first.


  • #65
    wacotaco
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭wacotaco


    I can't get my college results as NUIG is closed. Might miss out on the closing date which is June 3.


  • #66
    Olivia Pope
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭Olivia Pope


    wacotaco wrote: »
    I can't get my college results as NUIG is closed. Might miss out on the closing date which is June 3.[/QUOTE

    Email Hibernia, you won't be the only one. Its very likely that your interview will be done on Skype or something similar. They may offer places pending all paperwork.


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  • #67
    jrmb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 706 ✭✭✭jrmb


    Olivia Pope wrote: »
    Email Hibernia, you won't be the only one. Its very likely that your interview will be done on Skype or something similar. They may offer places pending all paperwork.
    Yeah, they're very accommodating about everything that's going on.


  • #68
    wacotaco
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭wacotaco


    Olivia Pope wrote: »
    Hi Wacotaco,

    I am a current student due to go on SP in 12 days and I have not been Contacted yet. Sit tight. They will probably try and sort out current students first.

    Did you get called?


  • #69
    Olivia Pope
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭Olivia Pope


    wacotaco wrote: »
    Did you get called?

    Not sure what you mean?


  • #70
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Hi Olivia
    What decision was made in TPs? Postponed to next year?


  • #71
    Olivia Pope
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭Olivia Pope


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    Hi Olivia
    What decision was made in TPs? Postponed to next year?

    Gotcha!

    For my cohort we do not have to make up the teaching weeks, but we have to be assessed and have to account for the credits. So we are expecting an assignment instead. Probably lesson plans that we were hoping to teach. Are you hoping to start in September?


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  • #72
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Olivia Pope wrote: »
    Gotcha!

    For my cohort we do not have to make up the teaching weeks, but we have to be assessed and have to account for the credits. So we are expecting an assignment instead. Probably lesson plans that we were hoping to teach. Are you hoping to start in September?


    No I completed it a few years ago. Just curious how they handled it.


  • #73
    Olivia Pope
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭Olivia Pope


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    No I completed it a few years ago. Just curious how they handled it.

    Apologies, was replying in a rush. So disappointing to miss the school placement. Hopefully it will not disadvantage us too much in the long run. How are you finding things yourself at the moment?


  • #74
    wacotaco
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭wacotaco


    All interviews for the Autumn 2020 intake will be conducted online by video call. Has anyone been called yet?


  • #75
    eimear8401
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭eimear8401


    just wondering if anyone had their interview via zoom? how did it go?


  • #76
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    eimear8401 wrote: »
    just wondering if anyone had their interview via zoom? how did it go?

    It wasn't with Hibernia, but I had a Zoom interview for mine, and it was fine, they were very nice, and they're in the same situation as you with being at home and out of their normal routine, though they'll be in the swing of online interviews at this stage.

    The questions they ask will be the same as they would be face to face.

    If you'd like me to share some of questions I can remember being asked, please pop me a PM. I did my Irish in January so I'm not much good to you there, but the English side will be similar across all the colleges.


  • #77
    eggyemma
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭eggyemma


    eimear8401 wrote: »
    just wondering if anyone had their interview via zoom? how did it go?
    Hi Eimear, I applied at the beginning of this month and I haven’t heard anything yet, the only things that’s changed is that the status on my application says “enrolement verified”. Are you waiting too? I tuned in to one of their information webinars and the girl said that they are dealing with a backlog of applications cause of Covid and that there could be a 2-4 week wait for interviews!


  • #78
    wacotaco
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭wacotaco


    Are we expected to wear a suit and tie for the online interview? I'd feel more comfortable wearing a nice shirt but don't want to come across too casual. Were the interviewers wearing suits?


  • #79
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    wacotaco wrote: »
    Are we expected to wear a suit and tie for the online interview? I'd feel more comfortable wearing a nice shirt but don't want to come across too casual. Were the interviewers wearing suits?

    I wore a dress and suit jacket for mine, even wore heels. It put me in the right frame of mind. I don't know if that answers your question though. At the end of the day, it's still an interview, and how you present yourself is indicative of how seriously you're taking the whole thing - perception is reality.


  • #80
    wacotaco
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭wacotaco


    Did anyone have their interview recently? How was it.. what was asked etc?


  • #81
    Fourstarstevek
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭Fourstarstevek


    Hey guys just wondering has anyone had their interview for primary teaching yet? What type questions did you get asked about for irish was there much about COVID-19?


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  • #82
    SUNFLOWER20
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭SUNFLOWER20


    hi guys

    I sat my hibernia interview almost 2 weeks ago. Just wondering for those that sat interviews in recent months how long were you waiting ?

    Thank you


  • #83
    eggyemma
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭eggyemma


    SUNFLOWER20 wrote: »
    hi guys

    I sat my hibernia interview almost 2 weeks ago. Just wondering for those that sat interviews in recent months how long were you waiting ?

    Thank you


    I waited 5 weeks from when I applied to when I got the interview. I got 7 days notice for my interview. When I done the interview I got the email 5 days later 🙂


  • #84
    SUNFLOWER20
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭SUNFLOWER20


    Thanks eggyemma

    Congratulations !

    I'm probably over thinking this, but it seems as if, those who do well find out quickly. As in within a week. Only basing this on what i have read going through the forums !


  • #85
    Laprincesse
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭Laprincesse


    Hi All, I found this thread super helpful when prepping for my interview so wanted to pay it forward. I did the interview for Hibernia last week and found out 3 days later that I was being offered a place :-)

    The interview was on Zoom with 2 interviewers. One tackled the English Qs and one tackled the Irish. The one who is not speaking muted themselves on the call. The interviewers were really lovely, very positive and encouraging and kept the tone quite relaxed, but they do grill you (or at least they grilled me). All of the Qs listed on this thread came up - I was very glad I had prepared them. One difference - they asked me to speak for 2 mins on a topic of my choice (not 1 min as I had thought). They also asked me to explain my statement on the application form in detail, which I wasn't expecting. My interview went on for 35 - 40mins..

    Worth noting that when you click the link that Hibernia send you, the interviewers have to initiate the call - it kept asking me for an email and password which panicked me momentarily.

    I wore formal clothing but managed to keep my slippers on!

    I hope that's helpful and best of luck to anyone waiting to be interviewed.


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