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Garda Recruitment - Applying to join An Garda Siochana

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  • #602
    fitzer32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭fitzer32


    from wat i can tell the guards probably wont be running a recruitment campaign till the beginning of 2010.theres at least a couple of hundred people on the waiting list to go down to templemore and there are still 2 more batches to be interviewed.wit only 400 spots next year in templemore i'd say people passin their interview now will be waitin over a year more before headin to templemore.i wouldnt like to be waiting around for the next recruitment campaign to start especially wit unemployment goin to rise,there will prob be +10,000 plus applyin for 400 jobs completely different ratio to the last few years!!


  • #603
    redlane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭redlane


    fitzer32 wrote: »
    from wat i can tell the guards probably wont be running a recruitment campaign till the beginning of 2010.theres at least a couple of hundred people on the waiting list to go down to templemore and there are still 2 more batches to be interviewed.wit only 400 spots next year in templemore i'd say people passin their interview now will be waitin over a year more before headin to templemore.i wouldnt like to be waiting around for the next recruitment campaign to start especially wit unemployment goin to rise,there will prob be +10,000 plus applyin for 400 jobs completely different ratio to the last few years!!

    I see your point but if (as you have said) there are a couple of hundred people waiting to start and only two batches left to interview (which obviously won't all get in), where are the bodies to start training in 2010 itself going to come from? It seems to take the best part of a year to get from aptitude test to starting in Templemore (and more in many cases). For this reason, even by your own estimates of numbers in the system, there would need to be a campaign sometime in 2009 for 2010 intake.


  • #604
    TheNog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭TheNog


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  • #605
    fitzer32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭fitzer32


    i'd say ther will be a campaign in 2010.all they need is 800 for the next 2 years in the college an to be honest i'd say there well could be that number on the waiting list cause there ar people from campaigns last year still waitin to get called down!! but theres no way of knowin the exact figure but thats my gut feeling!


  • #606
    cork spunker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭cork spunker


    Mun23 wrote: »
    Hi Guys and Gals! Im new to posting but have been following this thread for a while now and find it very helpful :)

    Just wondering does anyone know when the next campagne is opening I cant seem to get a proper answer from any number I ring:(
    Failed the medical last time round so have to go thru the whole process again, Also can somebody please clarify about the eyesight I raid unaided on the gards website but on this forum some people are saying it has changed to "aided"
    Also has anyone got a third chance at the Physical? I know someone who did...

    no recruitment drive till next year i have heard from hq. only 400 trainees being admitted next year, leaving a panel of 2000 behind praying they get a call for 2010. fact !


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  • #607
    fitzer32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭fitzer32


    i agree wit ya dat the next recruitment drive wont be till 2010 but how do u know ders a panel of 2000 waiting???


  • #608
    tabatha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭tabatha


    just came across this,
    http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2008/oct/12/fears-of-freeze-on-gardai-recruitment-drive-as-200/

    wonder what they will do?


  • #609
    tabatha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭tabatha


    also came across this which is more reassuring

    http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/Tackling%20Crime%20%E2%80%93%20An%20Absolute%20Priority%20Justice%20Sector%20Estimates%20Package%20to%20Preserve%20Frontline%20Services


  • #610
    TheNog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭TheNog


    Tabatha

    tbh in this job nothing is certain unless it has already happened!!!! every member will tell you that. You see the AGS budget is set in stone but day to day costs can increase and decrease significantly.

    An example of this would be something along the lines of Bellanboy. If another incident occured where a constant Garda presence is required that will eat into the budget. Other budgetary eaters (??) would be murders, road deaths etc. As the year goes on some services may have to be scaled back or cut altogether.

    Having said all that I do hope the recruitment continues but we can all agree it will not be on par with what we have seen in the last few years.


  • #611
    google08
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭google08


    2010 is that when they are advertising again for the next recruitment drive ? Does that mean that between now and 2010 that they will be getting in the 2000 waiting to get in ?
    Do you know what batch are due in nov ?


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  • #612
    wispa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭wispa


    google08 wrote: »
    2010 is that when they are advertising again for the next recruitment drive ? Does that mean that between now and 2010 that they will be getting in the 2000 waiting to get in ?
    Do you know what batch are due in nov ?

    just my own opinion i dont think we will have to wait untill 2010 for the next recruitment.there was a new poster released looking for more muslim and foreign people to join AGS a few weeks ago.i doubt they would release a poster like that looking for foreign recruits and then make them wait 2 years until they could join, that would put people off applying.what do people think????


  • #613
    Geri Boyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭Geri Boyle


    It would probably take til 2010 for background checks for non-nationals to be complete anyway..


  • #614
    madbadger
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭madbadger


    And this poster was released before the budget was announced...


  • #615
    redlane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭redlane


    madbadger wrote: »
    And this poster was released before the budget was announced...

    The budget announced something like a half percent decrease in the Garda budget, hardly significant. I think decision were probably made as to future recruitment before the budget.


  • #616
    tabatha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭tabatha


    well i just called pjs and they said that they think there is one before christmas. she seemed pretty unsure so i called garda headquaters. they bascailly said that things have changed. he said that there was one suppose to be before christmas but that is now changed. he said that they have no official confirmation of anything yet but that there is major cutbacks and as they wont be cutting back in garda pay they will be cutting back in recruitment. anyway, he said that it is looking like late next year before there is anything.


  • #617
    TheNog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭TheNog


    redlane wrote: »
    The budget announced something like a half percent decrease in the Garda budget, hardly significant. I think decision were probably made as to future recruitment before the budget.

    The half percent amounts to €20 million in our budget.
    tabatha wrote: »
    well i just called pjs and they said that they think there is one before christmas. she seemed pretty unsure so i called garda headquaters. they bascailly said that things have changed. he said that there was one suppose to be before christmas but that is now changed. he said that they have no official confirmation of anything yet but that there is major cutbacks and as they wont be cutting back in garda pay they will be cutting back in recruitment. anyway, he said that it is looking like late next year before there is anything.

    The cutbacks as far as I can see will probably be in recruitment and overtime :mad: The AGS have pretty attained the 15,000 members it set out to make with 14,2ish and another 1,000 in training. It has been reported (too lazy to find the link) that the extra 1,000 coming on will add a 1 million annual hours at normal time so no need have the extra funding in OT :mad::mad: again.

    Good thing is Anvil will continue with the budget being €21 million this year an increase of 1 million.

    Kerry4sam I think you provided the link for the budget breakdown on the AGS. Any chance you could repost it?


  • #618
    tabatha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭tabatha


    TheNog wrote: »
    The half percent amounts to €20 million in our budget.



    The cutbacks as far as I can see will probably be in recruitment and overtime :mad: The AGS have pretty attained the 15,000 members it set out to make with 14,2ish and another 1,000 in training. It has been reported (too lazy to find the link) that the extra 1,000 coming on will add a 1 million annual hours at normal time so no need have the extra funding in OT :mad::mad: again.

    Good thing is Anvil will continue with the budget being €21 million this year an increase of 1 million.

    Kerry4sam I think you provided the link for the budget breakdown on the AGS. Any chance you could repost it?


    all well and good but crap for anyone who wants to join :(


  • #619
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    TheNog wrote: »
    The half percent amounts to €20 million in our budget.
    The cutbacks as far as I can see will probably be in recruitment and overtime :mad: The AGS have pretty attained the 15,000 members it set out to make with 14,2ish and another 1,000 in training. It has been reported (too lazy to find the link) that the extra 1,000 coming on will add a 1 million annual hours at normal time so no need have the extra funding in OT :mad::mad: again.

    Good thing is Anvil will continue with the budget being €21 million this year an increase of 1 million.

    Kerry4sam I think you provided the link for the budget breakdown on the AGS. Any chance you could repost it?

    GARDA SÍOCHÁNA Budget Decreased:

    at http://www.budget.gov.ie/2009/downloads/CombinedBudgetEstimates2009&SPCP.pdf

    page 48 for An Garda Siochana details ... TheNog, I think this is the link
    tabatha wrote: »
    well i just called pjs and they said that they think there is one before christmas. she seemed pretty unsure so i called garda headquaters. they bascailly said that things have changed. he said that there was one suppose to be before christmas but that is now changed. he said that they have no official confirmation of anything yet but that there is major cutbacks and as they wont be cutting back in garda pay they will be cutting back in recruitment. anyway, he said that it is looking like late next year before there is anything.

    you know i am still quietly confident that their will be one more this side of Christmas around November'ish as : by the time they hold the stage1 for all those candidates, you'll be looking at next March/April anyways for completion of all stage1 applicants, earliest [taking into consideration-if the number of applicants rise and the stage1 are held in PublicJobs office as opposed to the Teachers Union which seem to be able to hold more candidates at any one sitting] ... I just forsee the waiting time for applicants increasing significantly and from next year onward holding a recruitment drive 3times annually ... time will tell and que cera cera :)


  • #620
    tabatha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭tabatha


    kerry4sam wrote: »
    GARDA SÍOCHÁNA Budget Decreased:

    at http://www.budget.gov.ie/2009/downloads/CombinedBudgetEstimates2009&SPCP.pdf

    page 48 for An Garda Siochana details ... TheNog, I think this is the link



    you know i am still quietly confident that their will be one more this side of Christmas around November'ish as : by the time they hold the stage1 for all those candidates, you'll be looking at next March/April anyways for completion of all stage1 applicants, earliest [taking into consideration-if the number of applicants rise and the stage1 are held in PublicJobs office as opposed to the Teachers Union which seem to be able to hold more candidates at any one sitting] ... I just forsee the waiting time for applicants increasing significantly and from next year onward holding a recruitment drive 3times annually ... time will tell and que cera cera :)

    fingers crossed xxx


  • #621
    jwt22
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭jwt22


    kerry4sam wrote: »
    GARDA SÍOCHÁNA Budget Decreased:

    at http://www.budget.gov.ie/2009/downloads/CombinedBudgetEstimates2009&SPCP.pdf

    page 48 for An Garda Siochana details ... TheNog, I think this is the link



    you know i am still quietly confident that their will be one more this side of Christmas around November'ish as : by the time they hold the stage1 for all those candidates, you'll be looking at next March/April anyways for completion of all stage1 applicants, earliest [taking into consideration-if the number of applicants rise and the stage1 are held in PublicJobs office as opposed to the Teachers Union which seem to be able to hold more candidates at any one sitting] ... I just forsee the waiting time for applicants increasing significantly and from next year onward holding a recruitment drive 3times annually ... time will tell and que cera cera :)


    Have to say I agree, if thay freeze recruitment until 2010, there will be no recruits until 2011 by the time any of these get through the selection process.
    Probably they will have a drive brfore Christmas and could be 2010 by the time these applicants get in but at least theres some hope for us! :o

    (Curse me for not realising my dream sooner! :(:D)


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  • #622
    eroo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,084 ✭✭✭eroo


    Tbh with ye lads, there is absolutely NO POINT in speculating. No one here knows whats going to happen. Personally, I believe and hope that the next campaign will be in Jan/Feb 09. If they recruit in November, it's quite close to Christmas so trying to process that many applications before 'the season' would be a large undertaking imo.

    Bottom line, hold out and see what happens, and don't listen to the speculation and rumours that fill the internet. After all, if you really want this, you'll wait as long as it takes. Well, I will anyways!


  • #623
    tabatha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭tabatha


    eroo wrote: »
    After all, if you really want this, you'll wait as long as it takes. Well, I will anyways!

    unless you are coming up close to the age limit.......:(


  • #624
    razor89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭razor89


    ugh....this bloody waiting is a test within itself. I think the worse thing is that this whole thing is completly out of your hands and your left 100% in the dark as to when somethings going to happen. There should really be someone the likes of us can turn to for straight and educated answers.:(


  • #625
    Mrmotivator007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭Mrmotivator007


    when is the next recruitment likely going to be open.if they are planning to take smaller clases the chances of getting in would be smaller right!if so what chances would you have of getting in with a fairly average leaving cert(i do meet the minimum requirements) and no degree.is their anything you can do that would improve your chances of getting in?joining the reserves doing some sort of night course?


  • #626
    hopeful8
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭hopeful8


    well lads havent posted in a while im on my phase 2 now and have been reading your posts,mr motivator the fact that you have a basic leaving cert will have no bearing on your chances at all,if you get to the interview stage its how u perform there and then,there not looking for a genius just somebody who 'ticks all the boxes'.


  • #627
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Mrmotivator007 wrote: »
    when is the next recruitment likely going to be open...

    If you were to look back a few pages you will see that question has been asked over and over but nobody posting here seems to know when it will be ... it is all assumptions and presumptions and estimated guesses. Time will tell though, and all we can do in the meantime is kick back and wait it out mate :)


  • #628
    Murphy(Cork)
    Closed Accounts Posts: 441 ✭✭Murphy(Cork)


    For everyone hoping to apply, after the intake in November, there will be one in February. Chances are tho, there may not be any application process, with so many already waiting for the phone call to start in templemore or still working through the medicals and PCT and the decrease in intake numbers, the chances are February could be full already.


  • #629
    Chris007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭Chris007


    I'm seriously considering applying for the guards in a few years. I'm also very interested in doing a postgrad course(maybe a masters) in criminology. My question is, would this degree help me in being succesful in applying for the guards? And, would it be useful in daily garda duties? Any advice would be much appreciated!! :D


  • #630
    jt123456
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭jt123456


    Honestly it doesnt make one bit of difference if you have a degree in law, criminology, forensics, accountancy etc as everyone is treated the same as long as you pass the educational requirements. So you are still competeing against someone just scraping through their leaving cert 3 months ago. They want to know that you have the skills required to preform the job necessery and are of good character and that spending €60k or more training you is not going to be a waste.


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  • #631
    ChapOfDRyans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭ChapOfDRyans


    If you were 18 - 19 would you have as good of chance of getting in as someone more mature?


  • #632
    happy days
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭happy days


    Does anyone have any idea when the next phase of recruitment is going to take place???????????


  • #633
    pvt.joker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭pvt.joker


    happy days wrote: »
    Does anyone have any idea when the next phase of recruitment is going to take place???????????


    no-one knows mate. Ring Public Appointments and ask them.


  • #634
    TheNog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭TheNog


    Chris007 wrote: »
    I'm seriously considering applying for the guards in a few years. I'm also very interested in doing a postgrad course(maybe a masters) in criminology. My question is, would this degree help me in being succesful in applying for the guards? And, would it be useful in daily garda duties? Any advice would be much appreciated!! :D

    It may help you when applying but tbh it would help you more for promotion in the job rather than joining. IMO you could be the most intelligent person in the world and still be a bad copper. Its more about personal traits along with common sense that makes a good police officer.

    ChapOfDRyans wrote: »
    If you were 18 - 19 would you have as good of chance of getting in as someone more mature?

    The more mature the better


  • #635
    DK47
    Closed Accounts Posts: 543 ✭✭✭DK47


    ChapOfDRyans wrote: »
    If you were 18 - 19 would you have as good of chance of getting in as someone more mature?

    its all depends on you experiences and you level of maturity, all you can do is apply and give it a go. if anything after the application process you will know if its what you really want, you will learn alot about your self and who know you could get it. no one can really answer that question!!! good luck what ever you decide!!!:)


  • #636
    DK47
    Closed Accounts Posts: 543 ✭✭✭DK47


    happy days wrote: »
    Does anyone have any idea when the next phase of recruitment is going to take place???????????

    November, january 09, could be anytime!:) its the first site of a long waiting game:D


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  • #637
    super_shellers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭super_shellers


    ChapOfDRyans wrote: »
    If you were 18 - 19 would you have as good of chance of getting in as someone more mature?


    As dkhill47 says it depends on your own experience and your level of maturity. There are a good few people in my intake that are 19 or 20. However I wouldnt recommend joining straight after school.


  • #638
    TheNog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭TheNog


    farzad wrote: »
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    Farzad man this is way off topic. post deleted


  • #639
    farzad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭farzad


    TheNog wrote: »
    Farzad man this is way off topic. post deleted

    oK:P


  • #640
    Timmy29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Timmy29


    Hey, I read from a previous post that Kilroy's preparation exams are poor. Does anyone know of a good course provider out there that I can register with?


  • #641
    pvt.joker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭pvt.joker


    Timmy29 wrote: »
    Hey, I read from a previous post that Kilroy's preparation exams are poor. Does anyone know of a good course provider out there that I can register with?


    ya, theres a sergeant in templemore that is very good, cant remem her name, someone else will tell u, celtic07 told me bout her.


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  • #642
    Greycliff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Greycliff


    Her name is D'estelle Roe she has a website. She is fantastic,i went to her and got through the interview first time a month ago. Defo get in contact with her :D


  • #643
    jwt22
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭jwt22


    Any word of any recruitment campaigns opening soon? It's not looking great for before Christmas really is it?


  • #644
    Timmy29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Timmy29


    Greycliff wrote: »
    Her name is D'estelle Roe she has a website. She is fantastic,i went to her and got through the interview first time a month ago. Defo get in contact with her :D


    Thanks for that Greycliff!! I looked up her name and came across her website: http://mdrconsultants.ie/ Will get in contact with her. :D


  • #645
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    For everyone waiting to hear on the next Garda Recruitment drive:

    I just contacted P.A.S. and was informed that contrary to what was planned before, circumstances have now changed and their won't be another Garda Recuitment Drive in 2008 & Their are no plans as to when next year one will be organised.

    Heads up though ... It just means more time to prepare for when it does come around. Competition will be tough again & all the preparation you can do in the mean-time should certainly stand to you.


  • #646
    eroo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,084 ✭✭✭eroo


    kerry4sam wrote: »
    For everyone waiting to hear on the next Garda Recruitment drive:

    I just contacted P.A.S. and was informed that contrary to what was planned before, circumstances have now changed and their won't be another Garda Recuitment Drive in 2008 & Their are no plans as to when next year one will be organised.

    Heads up though ... It just means more time to prepare for when it does come around. Competition will be tough again & all the preparation you can do in the mean-time should certainly stand to you.

    A bad week just got worse.:(

    On the upside, I can continue building up my CV!


  • #647
    tabatha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭tabatha


    kerry4sam wrote: »
    For everyone waiting to hear on the next Garda Recruitment drive:

    I just contacted P.A.S. and was informed that contrary to what was planned before, circumstances have now changed and their won't be another Garda Recuitment Drive in 2008 & Their are no plans as to when next year one will be organised.

    Heads up though ... It just means more time to prepare for when it does come around. Competition will be tough again & all the preparation you can do in the mean-time should certainly stand to you.

    thats what i was told a few weeks ago. garda headquaters also told me that it was looking like the middle of next year fot the next one as they have quite a few waiting to go down and who have recently passed. a friend of mine went down in august and there were something like 245 that went down. he said a new group started last monday and there are 90 in it. talk about cutting it down! he also said there are major cutbacks down there also.


  • #648
    jwt22
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭jwt22


    Greycliff wrote: »
    Her name is D'estelle Roe she has a website. She is fantastic,i went to her and got through the interview first time a month ago. Defo get in contact with her :D

    What kind of cost would you be looking at?


  • #649
    pvt.joker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭pvt.joker


    jwt22 wrote: »
    What kind of cost would you be looking at?

    its all on the website.


  • #650
    jwt22
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭jwt22


    pvt.joker wrote: »
    its all on the website.

    Been on the website today and had a look. From what I can see it's just a one page site advertising what she does but no prices


  • #651
    pvt.joker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭pvt.joker


    jwt22 wrote: »
    Been on the website today and had a look. From what I can see it's just a one page site advertising what she does but no prices

    fair enough. its not too expensive. 100 euro or so for interview coaching. highly recommended.


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