Central Bank hiring 60 graduates - closing date 28th July 2010

ted2767

Accountancy so am sure there's going to be loads of economic buffins there and in fairness while my degree is good at accountancy it's definetly not strong on economics.
At the moment I'll go ahead with it I send back the application today but would really prefer to go down the accounting route next year.
I'm going to see what happens if there's a mini milkround in spring and am on an offer shortlist for audit at ey so maybe something will come of that.

Lorchii

well thats a very fair reason for not wanting it...accountacy accreditations will stand to you wherever you want to go, so definately not something to give up.

I wouldn't worry about having an accouting background. Financial services seems to not be strictly bias against people with more irrelevant backgrounds (mine not having one busines module out of over 40)! You turned down tax but now wish to persue audit etc? Change of heart?

ted2767 wrote: »

Accountancy so am sure there's going to be loads of economic buffins there and in fairness while my degree is good at accountancy it's definetly not strong on economics.
At the moment I'll go ahead with it I send back the application today but would really prefer to go down the accounting route next year.
I'm going to see what happens if there's a mini milkround in spring and am on an offer shortlist for audit at ey so maybe something will come of that.

ted2767

Yeah I just think its too soon in a career to work exclusively in something as specialised as tax I know in audit you're sorta cornered also but the advice from people I trust was to try for audit.

Lorchii

fair nuff! tax is quite specialised alright I would imagine. Audit is very international, and would give you a firm grounding..but a tad bit on the boring side! but what job doesnt have its boring tasks!

I've always been more interested in the actual finances of a company and a role like that with the accounts would keep you very employable in the future with banks or any industry!!

good luck with the application, and i hope e&y comes tru for ya

ted2767

Thanks, they were the only one where I applied to for audit but hopefully there will be more options in spring how about yourself?

Lorchii

i got offered consulting wit deloitte (much to my surprise for my lack of business knowledge, and its more a financial based role) so I'm very pleased, and thats why i discourage your negative comments with regard not being an economist!!

ted2767

Well done I had an interview with PwC for that but christ what a disaster.

Outkast_IRE

one of my friends is up for this postion he has a masters in commerce so they are picking relatively diverse applicants id say.

celebr

Does anyone know when they are making the offers?

Denerick

Unless you have a specialist postgraduate degree, don't even bother applying for this. They claim they want diversity of education but in reality they are recruiting from a small selection of graduates. Don't get your hopes up, many of us who did interviews were not altogether surprised to find out that all of the arts/humanities interviewees were weeded out at that stage...

celebr

Not really true. My friend (an arts student) was hired last year.
Do you know when they are making the offers for those that did the interviews?

EI111

Denerick wrote: »

Unless you have a specialist postgraduate degree, don't even bother applying for this. They claim they want diversity of education but in reality they are recruiting from a small selection of graduates. Don't get your hopes up, many of us who did interviews were not altogether surprised to find out that all of the arts/humanities interviewees were weeded out at that stage...

Not true at all

Ruby21

@celebr I'm wondering the same thing, has anyone heard? dont know anyone else who got to the interview stage but i'm assuming they'd let us know either way. Tanya Hunt said 2-3 weeks, nearly 3 weeks now though!

cm2000

Still waiting too! 24 days since my interview! Any idea how many were interviewed?

Ruby21

There was what 16 interviewed a day? And hiring 50-60?? I'd guess prob two weeks of interviews anyway-160?? Thats just a guess though.. Just want them to let me know either way at this stage!

cm2000

Bit of a joke really, and we're at close of business on Friday so it will be Monday at the earliest.

openthedoor

Hey guys new to forum but interview a while back as well, has anyone emailed Tanya Hunt yet? might be worth it, was thinking about it but dunno if anyone esle had, figurd takes long enuff to get a reply so may aswell ask if anyone has

Ruby21

I emailed her the day after my interview to ask her something else and threw it in at the end, she just said they'd be getting back to everyone within 2-3weeks.....

openthedoor

cool well they did say offers mid-late feb so today is pretty much the last day tho to be honest i'd imagine weds or fri wud be more likely

celebr

Did anyone here from the HR about the grad program yet?

Ruby21

Nope! got an email on Tuesday saying we'd hear today though

just watching my phone and refreshing my emails!

solicitor?

anyone heard anything yet? i've still heard nothing!!!

Herodotus

Typical, as expected, they send the emails at 5pm on a Friday evening, just as they are escaping out the door...

solicitor?

Herodotus wrote: »

Typical, as expected, they send the emails at 5pm on a Friday evening, just as they are escaping out the door...

I was just told i was on a "panel". anyone know what this means? anyone else get something like this or were there actual job offers made?

HappyCBella

I got the same thing about being on a panel but the email says "a panel from which all graduate positions in the organisation will be filled over the next 12 months". Can we take it that means we're pretty much guaranteed a job or did anyone get an outright job offer?

reinald

Hi Guys, Just been told that I have been placed on a 'panel' from which all graduate positions over the next twelve months will be filled, subject to references, medical and security clearance.

I presume this means I have been offered a position...but the language is a bit indirect and I am wary about the prospect of placement on 'reserve panels' which I have heard have operated in previous CB competitions.

Anyone else get the same email or something more direct?

Commiserations to anyone not successful on this occasion.

cm2000

Same, pretty sure it's an offer because I know of someone who didn't get it.

HappyCBella

I didn't want to celebrate too soon in case I was picking it up wrong! Congrats to everyone who got good news and hard luck to those who didn't get in. Keep on trying, I'm sure something will come along for you.

reinald

Yeah I've taken a look back over this thread and this is apparently what one of the posters got in a previous recruitment competition when they were placed on a reserve panel

"I refer to your recent interview in respect of the Central Bank’s graduate opportunities 2010.

In light of the very high quality of candidates who applied for the roles, i regret to advise that you have not been chosen for immediate appointment to the organisation. However we were impressed with your performance throughout the process, coupled with your strong CV and we would like to offer you the opportunity to be placed on a panel of Bank Officers to fill graduate vacancies arising up until 30th September 2011 in the organisation.

Appointments to the panel are made subject to the satisfactory completion of reference checks and a medical.

Please contact us to discuss in further detail"

This 'Bank Officers' position seems to be a separate role so hopefully we're in the clear. Was no mention of this in my email anyway.

reinald

Well done to everyone who got through this time and best of luck to those of you applying next time around

openthedoor

hey guys i also got an offer, I'm in my last year doing a BA in economics, was wondering what everybody else is doing just to see who they hired?

TC12

I got told I was placed on a panel, does anyone know what this means? Did anyone get an outright offer?

TC12

openthedoor wrote: »

hey guys i also got an offer, I'm in my last year doing a BA in economics, was wondering what everybody else is doing just to see who they hired?

Were you placed on a panel or did you get an actual offer

openthedoor

the panel, its pretty clear now that this is obviously the "offer" as there has only been that email and a rejection email sent out

Jess2011

Hey, has anyone heard anything back from Central Bank since the acknowledgement that they received our reply about being on the panel. I was told we would get more info at on the following friday or monday but nothing yet.. anyone else the same?

Hogmeister

Hello, I've been following the thread for a while but only just got round to setting up a boards account. I also got the vague panel acceptance thing, with the promise they'd be in touch about medical and references etc.

Has anyone heard back about these things since?! They've been so unreliable the whole way along that I really don't trust them not to have left me out of their email list as they did several times before!

Fappington08

Hey. I just got an e-mail from the bank RE security checks etc. I have to fill out a form to prove i've got no police convictions. Apparantely it takes about 4 weeks for the whole thing to be processed.

I also rang up about whether this was an actual job offer. It turns out that it's not and that this whole 'panel' system is a way for the bank to fill vacancies left by staff retiring, quitting etc. so its not actually a graduate programme in that sense. The panel lasts for a year and no one who is on it is guaranteed a position in the bank. It obviously depends on how many positions become available throughout the year.

So the whole thing is a bit up in the air and I would advise anyone who is relying on the 'panel' e-mail as a proper job offer to continue to look elsewhere in the meantime. Oh and salary is a fairly paltry 23,650 eur

Belle_247

Fappington08 wrote: »

Hey. I just got an e-mail from the bank RE security checks etc. I have to fill out a form to prove i've got no police convictions. Apparantely it takes about 4 weeks for the whole thing to be processed.

I also rang up about whether this was an actual job offer. It turns out that it's not and that this whole 'panel' system is a way for the bank to fill vacancies left by staff retiring, quitting etc. so its not actually a graduate programme in that sense. The panel lasts for a year and no one who is on it is guaranteed a position in the bank. It obviously depends on how many positions become available throughout the year.

So the whole thing is a bit up in the air and I would advise anyone who is relying on the 'panel' e-mail as a proper job offer to continue to look elsewhere in the meantime. Oh and salary is a fairly paltry 23,650 eur

I just randomly came across this but glad I did! How did you find out the salary was 23,650? My friend was on the panel last year and started on 28000, did the HR department inform you otherwise?

Fappington08

Belle_247 wrote: »

I just randomly came across this but glad I did! How did you find out the salary was 23,650? My friend was on the panel last year and started on 28000, did the HR department inform you otherwise?

Ya I rang up about the security checks and just said i'd chance asking what the starting salary was seeing as information has been pretty scarce to date. They said that the salary has been reduced from 28000 last year 'in line with public sector reductions'. Living in Dublin on that money would be fairly difficult IMO.

mr.interested

Hi guys,

As for "we would like to offer you the opportunity to be placed on a panel of Bank Officers to fill graduate vacancies arising up until 30th September 2011 in the organisation." -- did anyone get the job from this pool?

Best

reinald

mr.interested wrote: »

Hi guys,

As for "we would like to offer you the opportunity to be placed on a panel of Bank Officers to fill graduate vacancies arising up until 30th September 2011 in the organisation." -- did anyone get the job from this pool?

Best

Was this Bank Officers email sent out from the most recent competition or from the previous one?

More generally, has anyone at all who came through the most recent round of recruitment actually been placed yet? If so, would be great if you could shed a little more light on the situation

advicewhore

A friend of mine went through this years recruitment process and got offered a position, starting in august - so maybe they have filled some of the positions! If you haven't heard from them you should contact them, cause I know from going through the process myself that they are actually the worst people for not letting you know what is going on for ages...

dee145

Hiya,

Im in the same position.. haven't heard anything from them since that very vague email. A friend of mine had his medical etc in June so I rang them to see what was going on and haven't gotten a straight answer. Has anyone else not heard anything back? I really thought the way the application etc was phrased that it was a graduate program with around 60 graduates starting in October!

Any replies would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Belle_247

My friend and I are both on the panel and I got called for my medical in June, when she didn't hear anything she mailed them and they said they'd send hers out and she could go ahead and do it with me. They never emailed her the forms etc but she went and did it anyway. Nothing since then. I've even emailed to change my availability but no response.

Does anyone know how long after the medical people have heard about starting dates? And I would love to know how much notice they give you before starting? 2 weeks? A month?

mr.interested

reinald wrote: »

Was this Bank Officers email sent out from the most recent competition or from the previous one?

More generally, has anyone at all who came through the most recent round of recruitment actually been placed yet? If so, would be great if you could shed a little more light on the situation

That was from the previous recruitment process. Just two months left until the end of September and no answer. Disappointing.

mr.interested

Fappington08 wrote: »

... I also rang up about whether this was an actual job offer. It turns out that it's not ...

But this indeed sounds like a job offer to me:

we would like to offer you the opportunity to be placed on a panel of Bank Officers to fill graduate vacancies arising up until 30th September 2011 in the organisation.

Hogmeister

I got in touch over the last few days. They said they are presently finalising places for October and will be in touch within 2 weeks.

dee145

Well that sounds promising..!Thanks a million for the update..fingers crossed they actually do get back to us!

mr.interested

Hogmeister wrote: »

I got in touch over the last few days. They said they are presently finalising places for October and will be in touch within 2 weeks.

Did they get in touch with you?

Has anyone received a final offer re "graduate vacancies arising up until 30th September 2011 in the organisation."?

mr.interested

mr.interested wrote: »

Did they get in touch with you?

Has anyone received a final offer re "graduate vacancies arising up until 30th September 2011 in the organisation."?

No-one?