Interdepartmental HEO Competition 2019

Not sure if the following is helpful to anyone, but if the DPM pilot is successful, it looks there's going to be many more EO and HEO vacancies in Garda Stations over theh next few years.

4 divisions in the country are pilots for the new DPM which officially begins on 1 April for one year, even though its been gradually introduced over the past 2 years. There's four sections contained in the DPR, Governance, Administration, Crime and Community Engagement. Administration section is completely made up of garda staff.

Due to the DPM Cork city has seen a massive increase in COs and EOs. Its also has new HR HEO, a Finance HEO and a Governance HEO, plus an AP.

HEOs are not taking over the divisional EO role, however, parts of the Divisional EO's work, eg leave, finance, divisional Garda Statf, etc was transferred to either HR or Finance section.

Apparently, in Cork City, when the Divisional Sergeant is promoted (shortly) the role will be taken up by the Divisional EO, supported by the Divisional CO. No sign of a Divisional HEO.

I dont like the format of the tests ��

Addle wrote: »

I haven't seen them yet.
Are they different to the last 2 competitions?

No, they are using Cut-e again, which were the providers for the last couple of HEO comps.

They're handy.

I hope the tests issue today. I have the day off work and nobody is at home so it'd be the perfect time to do them.

It's going to be rather difficult if they don't come out until Thursday and then trying to find a quiet moment at home over the weekend!

Has anyone got any good aptitude tests links similar to familirisation material they coukd share . Im on maternity & totally out of the loop so need all help i can get ! 🀥

Crunchymomma wrote: »

I think there is some cut e style ones on jobtestprep.co.um

has anyone purchased ?or it it worth it ? The E Cut one does not seem to have many numerical tests and loads of other tests we would not use... thoughts ???

Hi all,
For anyone who's applied for HEO previously and completed the online assessments before: can anyone advise if the questions in the real test are much more difficult than the samples provided? Obviously the timing is much tighter in the real test but are the actual questions more complicated?

Thanks in advance if anyone can answer this

The_Conductor wrote: »

Infinitely harder.
The examples are to give you an idea of how the questions are formatted- not a gauge of their difficulty.
On the brightside- we're all in the same boat- if you find them hard- the rest of us probably do too.

Thanks! I suspected as much. Trying not to overthink things!

Completed the tests.

The Management Scenarios were fine but my God the Verbal and Numerical were awful. You are not entirely sure which questions relate to which of the tabs. Got about 2/3 of each test completed before the time ran out.

Help! I completed the Management Scenarios and when I went to hit proceed my computer crashed! I logged back in but the test is gone but not submitted! I have emailed the Helpdesk but waiting on a reply. I am panicking - has this ever happened anybody before? Can I redo them?

Just completed the test there, by Jaysus are they quick! You really don't feel the time going.

Best advice I can give is to work quick but try ignore the clock. I probably wasted a minute near the end looking between the clock and questions out of panic.

And remember that the tests are more to do with accuracy than speed, it even tells you that most people wont answer everything.

Best of luck everyone!

Hi all,

I've been using this site to practice Numerical Reasoning.

Its free to use, only down side is that its structured differently to the real thing.

www . numericalreasoningtest . org/

cosmic wrote: »

Anyone who has taken them already - do they give you the option to go back and review a question, or when you move on to the next one is that it? In that time limit I sincerely doubt I'd have the time to go back but I'd like to know for peace of mind

You can move forward and back or jump to any number you want using the grid option. Good luck!

Just finished them.
Verbal was fine. Numerical was tricky I found, just trying to understand what was being asked used up a lot of the time.

lucat wrote: »

BlondeBomb wrote: »

I found numerical difficult to interpret too.
A lot of the questions referred to Evergreen Ltd.

Are we to assume all the tabs are information from Evergreen Ltd.

Some tabs reference other Organisations but most tabs income / costs / employee etc reference no particular organisation.

I’m guessing with majority of questions re Evergreen that this is there accounts / data?

Did I miss something obvious?

I came on here today to see if anyone else had the same issue. I'm really annoyed about it tbh, and I think I might complain to Publicjobs because I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out if the charts were for Evergreen or not. A simple heading on each chart would have avoided the issue. I think it was very poorly done.

I’m guessing it was Evergreen, otherwise I’d have had a lot of cannot say.

I agree that it should have been clearer who each tab referred to especially when one tab in particular referred to a number of organisations.

Forthebuzz wrote: »

I got all bar the last three done on each but not sure if that's a good thing!!

I think the pass marks are usually around 50%.[/quot

I answered 40 for verbal and 27 for numerical . Safe to say that's me out ...