Interdepartmental Higher Executive Officer 2020 - (Serving Civil Servants ONLY)

italodisco wrote: »

Folks, quick question.

I'm gonna do the interview tomorrow morning, did everyone suit up for the stage 2 interview?

Shirt and tie id imagine...

Looks presentable imo anyway

Any tips for Stage 3 Interview & Presentation tomorrow please? The nerves are starting to kick in! 😬 TIA

Skweefie wrote: »

This thread is very comforting when needed. It is good to see others having the same wobbles as me!! Trying to gear myself up for the shortlisting and thought I was leaving it last minute by doing it tomorrow. Good luck folks and also those in the stage 3...

edit: I will also suit up as if in person interview.

I'm a bag of nerves to be honest, I'd much rather be heading in to sit in front of a panel of interviewers as I'd have a bit more than 3 mins to get a good example across.

Just wondering if it's only people remaining in their own dept who have been placed so far? Or if they are working there way up through the order of Merit and we have only had posts from people who are remaining in their own dept?? This waiting is fierce!

Littlefinger wrote: »

I'm trying to do mine now. Has anyone had any issues with getting the browser to recognise the camera? I have tried on chrome and Edge on both my PC and laptop? I'm trying not to panic.

Are you using a work PC / laptop, could be a firewall issue blocking access, Have you a smartphone, can you try using the camera on that.

Littlefinger wrote: »

I'm trying to do mine now. Has anyone had any issues with getting the browser to recognise the camera? I have tried on chrome and Edge on both my PC and laptop? I'm trying not to panic.

My work laptop has a little slide for privacy that actually covers the camera lens....

Littlefinger wrote: »

I rebooted my home pc several times and eventually it started working.

All done now , thankfully.

If anyone else has camera issues on work laptop, press ctrl alt delete, go into task manager and shut down Skype completely.

Sonru sees skype on and won't share the camera with it.

Did mine today, found it challenging to get everything into 3 minutes. I sounded like a horse racing commentator!

Just finished mine now.. I don’t know if I was the last to finish it but got there at least ��

italodisco wrote: »

If anyone else has camera issues on work laptop, press ctrl alt delete, go into task manager and shut down Skype completely.

Sonru sees skype on and won't share the camera with it.

Did mine today, found it challenging to get everything into 3 minutes. I sounded like a horse racing commentator!

Ah this made me laugh, do you think they play the Sunday Game Music or similar when they watch us to keep timeI dread to think what I sounded like rabbling along.

italodisco wrote: »

Quick question, for those of us finishing up stage 2, tonight being the deadline, how long of a wait will there be until the results come out?

Hi Italodisco, I was in the batch before ye guys doing the video interviews and we still haven't received our results. Can't remember the exact date anymore, so maybe someone else here does but it seems like it's been 4-5 weeks now already. Someone on this thread emailed PAS and they said that they wouldn't release results until end of June? So who knows??!

caarp wrote: »

Hi Italodisco, I was in the batch before ye guys doing the video interviews and we still haven't received our results. Can't remember the exact date anymore, so maybe someone else here does but it seems like it's been 4-5 weeks now already. Someone on this thread emailed PAS and they said that they wouldn't release results until end of June? So who knows??!

Yup:rolleyes: - still waiting patiently for our results of the video interview - our closing date for Regionals was the 13th May - so its just over 5 week now and counting....But I would be quite confident that ye won't be waiting anywhere near this long, as Dublin has the bulk of vacancies and is the priority. I would say 2-3 week mark.

italodisco wrote: »

Okay this thread is confusing, I though there were folk from the 1st batch saying they had already done stage 3.

This threat is for the competition in the title, maybe folk should start separate threads for discussion on different comps!

Thanks for the update

Not talking about a different competition at all. There have been a few batches called in this competition already ahead of yours which has just finished stage 2, video shortlisting.

bcatt wrote: »

interviews/ presentation for the second group in the Dublin competition are finishing today.
PAS have informed me that the hope the results will issue before the end of the month.

Brilliant, thanks. The first batch only took a week to hear back about results. Looking at this thread their interviews finished up on a Friday and results were issued the following Friday.

bcatt wrote: »

interviews/ presentation for the second group in the Dublin competition are finishing today.
PAS have informed me that the hope the results will issue before the end of the month.

Sounds like these results for batch 2 from Dublin will issue before batch 1 regionals. :-(

redmgar wrote: »

Anyone else who had am interview this week find it a very difficult interview. Lots of interrupting and not competency based questions?

That's to test you, how you respond to pressure and also to see if you become irritated etc...

As HEO you could be in charge of as many as 10,20 EO & CO. Different personalites etc... so it's important you are calm and collected under pressure.


My advice, although too late now, come back to the question (interupted one) and ask to finish your point. The panel are not there to make you fail, its a test of suitability for the role, and to weed out those building up a CV but can't be relatable when pushed*


I could be talking pony, but that's my 2cents. Never as bad as it seems, good luck.

*think of the Apprentice if you watched that show, when the candiates are grilled at interview stage, nobody wins, it's feedback to Lord Sugar with HOW they dealt with it!