Clerical Positions in the Civil and Public Service

Mr. A

mquinnmullally wrote: »

For any period of unemployment I think. I had to get one

Correct! Even if you are currently working, you need a listing from SW of all the periods you were in receipt of Jobseeker's Allowance or Jobseeker's Benefit.

JohnMearsheimer

Does anyone know how long the advanced vetting takes?

junipergreen

mquinnmullally wrote:

For any period of unemployment I think. I had to get one

I only had to give one for my last period of unemployment, as in the one immediately before starting my current TCO role.

VONSHIRACH

AprilMayJune wrote: »

No problem I left a job to take a clerical officer position 8 years ago for family friendly reasons. I have a masters and a cima qualification - I've reached the top 5 in 4 promotion competitions but no position has come up where I live so had turn them all down. After 8 years I take home €400 because of pension deductions and I've yet to get term time because everything - term time job sharing etc has a waiting list.

Did you have the Masters and CIMA when you took the CO position or did you complete these during your CO job? I have 2/3 of a masters done part-time, so would be finishing this off in a few months.

lmdke

JohnMearsheimer wrote: »

Does anyone know how long the advanced vetting takes?

From previous posts I believe it takes 6-8 weeks !

AprilMayJune

VONSHIRACH wrote: »

Did you have the Masters and CIMA when you took the CO position or did you complete these during your CO job? I have 2/3 of a masters done part-time, so would be finishing this off in a few months.

Before I took the job. Thought it was a good move as I was starting a family but I seriously underestimated how hard it is to get promoted, how little the increments give you and how much I would be deducted.

JohnMearsheimer

lmdke wrote: »

From previous posts I believe it takes 6-8 weeks !

Thanks. People on the panel after me are getting offered positions so I'm just wondering if they're doing the advanced vetting on me.

lmdke

JohnMearsheimer wrote: »

Thanks. People on the panel after me are getting offered positions so I'm just wondering if they're doing the advanced vetting on me.

I'm not sure but I think you get a form to fill in if they are doing the advanced vetting, Maybe someone on here who has done it can correct me if I am wrong!

EmerG28

JohnMearsheimer wrote: »

Thanks. People on the panel after me are getting offered positions so I'm just wondering if they're doing the advanced vetting on me.

Hi John. If they're doing advanced vetting on you they send out another form in the post

clonmacart

Hi,

This is a really naive sounding question, but what did the male attendees of the interviews wear/intend to wear to the interviews? I've a feeling that a suit is the way to go, but I don't have one and don't have a huge amount money on JS as you can imagine.

Any kind of guide or advice would be great.

Thanks!

P.S - Good luck to all interviewees!

VONSHIRACH

clonmacart wrote: »

Hi,

This is a really naive sounding question, but what did the male attendees of the interviews wear/intend to wear to the interviews? I've a feeling that a suit is the way to go, but I don't have one and don't have a huge amount money on JS as you can imagine.

Any kind of guide or advice would be great.

Thanks!

P.S - Good luck to all interviewees!

I wore a suit. At the very least wear a shirt and tie with trousers. Suit would be preferable or trousers, shirt and tie with jacket.

JohnMearsheimer

clonmacart wrote: »

Hi,

This is a really naive sounding question, but what did the male attendees of the interviews wear/intend to wear to the interviews? I've a feeling that a suit is the way to go, but I don't have one and don't have a huge amount money on JS as you can imagine.

Any kind of guide or advice would be great.

Thanks!

P.S - Good luck to all interviewees!

I wore a suit but if you're stuck go for a shirt, tie and trousers.

laura13579

anyone who done stage2 in july for the west get results yet?

Phantasos

What exactly does a Revenue CO do? I get the feeling (from my short summer experience there years ago) that it's a glorified call centre position, with some counter-work.

peteykav123

Hey,

Anybody that sat stage 2 the end of June in Dublin have you received your results yet?

Thanks : )

sillysocks

Have they usually contacted all three references people gave on the interview form or is it normally just one?

EmerG28

sillysocks wrote: »

Have they usually contacted all three references people gave on the interview form or is it normally just one?

They just contacted my employer at the time. Didn't bother with past ones

JohnMearsheimer

sillysocks wrote: »

Have they usually contacted all three references people gave on the interview form or is it normally just one?

I gave 3 references. They contacted my current employer but they also wanted a reference from an employer I didn't put on my list of references. I worked for a multinational for a year but had no manager for 90% of my time with the company so I didn't put anyone down. I had to dig through emails from a few years ago to try and find a name. They didn't contact my other 2 references.

sillysocks

JohnMearsheimer wrote: »

I gave 3 references. They contacted my current employer but they also wanted a reference from an employer I didn't put on my list of references. I worked for a multinational for a year but had no manager for 90% of my time with the company so I didn't put anyone down. I had to dig through emails from a few years ago to try and find a name. They didn't contact my other 2 references.

Thanks. Had a TCO contract in revenue as my last employer, and then worked for a company for ten years so hoping either one of those will do them. Don't really have contacts back further than that!

cdsb46

Stage 2 Exam results are out

liam24

I'm really am shocked I failed the verbal reasoning, got 289, never felt that it was really difficult, I got on grand with the numerical and information checking.

chair28

Not mine there not.... Where did you see it? What part of the country did you do it in?

Miss Understood

cdsb46 wrote: »

Stage 2 Exam results are out

Delighted! Was full sure I'd messed up on numerical, was there straight from holiday & got hung up spending too much time on one question, but thankfully passed all. And so the waiting for interview begins.. it'll no doubt be a long long wait.

Congrats to all currently being called.

Miss Understood

chair28 wrote: »

Not mine there not.... Where did you see it? What part of the country did you do it in?

Dublin results released

chair28

I'm in Dublin.... Haven't got mine yet tho.... Ugh

FloatingVoter

"We are currently assigning candidates placed between 1000 & 1110"

I'm stuck at 1237. Even if all of those drop out and they call the next 110 - I'm still 17 out.
Badly hungover and numerical reasoning isn't helping.

Congrats to all who passed and there'll be another bus along for those that weren't so lucky (and it is mainly luck).

Miss Understood

FloatingVoter wrote: »

"We are currently assigning candidates placed between 1000 & 1110"

I'm stuck at 1237. Even if all of those drop out and they call the next 110 - I'm still 17 out.
Badly hungover and numerical reasoning isn't helping.

Congrats to all who passed and there'll be another bus along for those that weren't so lucky (and it is mainly luck).

I'm 2 after you floating voter, Its going to be a long oul wait I reckon!

theaxel132

in cork, just got my level 2 results.


We are currently assigning candidates between places 80 - 109, im at 204, hoping i wont be waiting too long

chair28

Do you guys get the text? Congratulations to all

gerrybbadd

Phantasos wrote: »

What exactly does a Revenue CO do? I get the feeling (from my short summer experience there years ago) that it's a glorified call centre position, with some counter-work.

It depends on the area of Revenue you are assigned to.

If you get put to PAYE, you'll spend most your time processing post, and will be doing call centre duties too. (with some counter work maybe).