Garda Recruitment - Stage 3 2016/2017

Bear22

Had my interview today, thought that it went ok but like always as time goes on you begin to question yourself! Now the wait for results begins, they said it should take 2 weeks!
From past stages are they usually released 2 weeks after?

Longstand14

air assault wrote: »

So I've a bit of head scratcher. I passed the stage two exam. I got my email saying that I would be called for an interview in September never gave me a date. I filled in the first interview forms about work etc. Sent them back and I got an email saying that they had got it. I'm due to go to the states at the start of next month and I don't know what to do since i was told my interview would be in sept but I got no date. I'm up around the 1300 in order of merit. Any advice ???

PAS are conducting interviews up to November so I'm sure you could change it.

Carey9

Quick question here, yet to receive my interview dates but if successful, are the fitness and medicals done on the same day?

Trying to plan annual leave.

FN2187

Carey9 wrote: »

Quick question here, yet to receive my interview dates but if successful, are the fitness and medicals done on the same day?

Trying to plan annual leave.

No both are done on separate dates, Medical in HQ and Physical in Templemore

gardagirl2015

Did my interview today! Got really nervous , not even sure if they understood the reasoning behind why I want to be a guard! I hope I passed ! Oh my nerves now !! Let the wait begin.

Also has anyone on here , did the interview , think they did bad and ended up passing ?

LandT

gardagirl2015 wrote: »

Did my interview today! Got really nervous , not even sure if they understood the reasoning behind why I want to be a guard! I hope I passed ! Oh my nerves now !! Let the wait begin.

Also has anyone on here , did the interview , think they did bad and ended up passing ?

Meee felt like it was the worst interview ever HAHA I was totally panicked and stuttering and found out I passed yesterday

VW73

gardagirl2015 wrote: »

Did my interview today! Got really nervous , not even sure if they understood the reasoning behind why I want to be a guard! I hope I passed ! Oh my nerves now !! Let the wait begin.

Also has anyone on here , did the interview , think they did bad and ended up passing ?

Congratulations on sitting your interview, the hard work is done, don't over think too much, they will take nerves into consideration. I personally think everyone comes out second guessing themselves and wondering did they answer good enough etc...and yes some ppl thought they failed and passed, i came out feeling 50/50 as they give you no clue how it went and i passed! best of luck,

gardagirl2015

VW73 wrote: »

Congratulations on sitting your interview, the hard work is done, don't over think too much, they will take nerves into consideration. I personally think everyone comes out second guessing themselves and wondering did they answer good enough etc...and yes some ppl thought they failed and passed, i came out feeling 50/50 as they give you no clue how it went and i passed! best of luck,

Thanks LandT and VW73! I was speaking at one stage and don't think it was English ! 😂 I just couldn't get out the reason about wanting to be a guard but I knew about the training programme and have loads and loads of community work !

Coffeeguzzler

gardagirl2015 wrote: »

Did my interview today! Got really nervous , not even sure if they understood the reasoning behind why I want to be a guard! I hope I passed ! Oh my nerves now !! Let the wait begin.

Also has anyone on here , did the interview , think they did bad and ended up passing ?

Yep, I did!
I walked out pretty bummed about it and conceded that I wasn't going to be a Garda at all, even stopped practicing for the beep test.

But in the end I passed and even got a good OOM!

I'm sure it's all in your head. Try not to stress too much about it you can't do anything now anyway.

gardagirl2015

Coffeeguzzler wrote: »

Yep, I did!
I walked out pretty bummed about it and conceded that I wasn't going to be a Garda at all, even stopped practicing for the beep test.

But in the end I passed and even got a good OOM!

I'm sure it's all in your head. Try not to stress too much about it you can't do anything now anyway.

Thank you all! Feeling better now!! :-)

Giacomo McGubbin

Laaads

Your training begins tonight . . .

Repeat after me the correct pronunciation . . . . .

VAAAY HICK EL


At mealtimes practice the following phrase . . . .

GIMME ME SNAAAAcK BOX

MondeoMan92

Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »

Laaads

Your training begins tonight . . .

Repeat after me the correct pronunciation . . . . .

VAAAY HICK EL


At mealtimes practice the following phrase . . . .

GIMME ME SNAAAAcK BOX

Dont forget 'schtep outta the ve-hick-al' 'lose the ha-at-tude' and 'have you drink taken'

Giacomo McGubbin

MondeoMan92 wrote: »

Dont forget 'schtep outta the ve-hick-al' 'lose the ha-at-tude' and 'have you drink taken'

Dat's year two, don't be given dem notions yet . . . .

MondeoMan92

Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »

Laaads

Your training begins tonight . . .

Repeat after me the correct pronunciation . . . . .

VAAAY HICK EL


At mealtimes practice the following phrase . . . .

GIMME ME SNAAAAcK BOX

Dont forget 'schtep outta the ve-hick-al' 'lose the ha-at-tude' and 'have you drink taken'

Giacomo McGubbin

MondeoMan92 wrote: »

Dont forget 'schtep outta the ve-hick-al' 'lose the ha-at-tude' and 'have you drink taken'

Dat's year two I'm tellin yaa, don't be given dem notions yet . . . .

Jg990

Hi. I've got called for interview for the Gardaì and filling out the application form. I'm just wondering do they ring employers for references? Do they check the dates you worked in the company to verify when you left? I heard of one guy who said they rang his last employer but dono what they asked!!

Cheers

ForeverYoung90

What are ye guys saying in section B of the interview form? I haven't done any community or voluntary work bar some stewarding at a football game a few times. Should I use my imagination as they say?:p

Giacomo McGubbin

ForeverYoung90 wrote: »

What are ye guys saying in section B of the interview form? I haven't done any community or voluntary work bar some stewarding at a football game a few times. Should I use my imagination as they say?:p

off to an honest start already eh

ganthy

I just submitted my interview form. How long should I be waiting before they send me the date and form b?

Dingle20144

I'll have mine sent back 3 weeks on Sunday!! Still waiting.....

Theflycatcher

ForeverYoung90 wrote: »

What are ye guys saying in section B of the interview form? I haven't done any community or voluntary work bar some stewarding at a football game a few times. Should I use my imagination as they say?:p

Stewarding at a football game sounds like just the kind of thing that woukd look good.

ForeverYoung90

ganthy wrote: »

I just submitted my interview form. How long should I be waiting before they send me the date and form b?

I have emailed the pdf application form back.But what is this form B?

ganthy

ForeverYoung90 wrote: »

I have emailed the pdf application form back.But what is this form B?

No that is the interview form. The form B should be sent to us once we get a date I think. And then you bring that on the day of the interview.

dave1987

Hi guys and girls I'm having problems downloading the interview form. I've tried it on 3 computers now and no luck. I would be very grateful if someone could forward it to me.

Regards,
Dave.

FN2187

Always difficult downloading it, from memory I right clicked on the link and clicked on "save file as" or something along those lines, could try diffent web browsers too

JustCaff

dave1987 wrote: »

Hi guys and girls I'm having problems downloading the interview form. I've tried it on 3 computers now and no luck. I would be very grateful if someone could forward it to me.

Regards,
Dave.

One of the most common questions on this thread ‚ download it, then open it from your downloads folder, should open then for you. Good job getting this far Dave!

Heart Break Kid

ForeverYoung90 wrote: »

What are ye guys saying in section B of the interview form? I haven't done any community or voluntary work bar some stewarding at a football game a few times. Should I use my imagination as they say?:p

Similar situation, Not my strongest point in any shape or form. Not going to bluff simply because I'd be worried they'd catch me out in the interview.

My stronger points or at least that what I would consider stronger is I've always been in pubic facing roles in relation to work.

Even the second question, my hobbies are games... Console gaming ect. Isn't necessarily something that will benefit the Garda. Overall section B isn't really that applicable to me but assuming it has to be entered nonetheless.

ForeverYoung90

Heart Break Kid wrote: »

Similar situation, Not my strongest point in any shape or form. Not going to bluff simply because I'd be worried they'd catch me out in the interview.

My stronger points or at least that what I would consider stronger is I've always been in pubic facing roles in relation to work.

Even the second question, my hobbies are games... Console gaming ect. Isn't necessarily something that will benefit the Garda. Overall section B isn't really that applicable to me but assuming it has to be entered nonetheless.

Ya I don't think a simple N/A for section b would look good for us.Im going to fill it out best I can and like you said not be bluffing it as we'll be found out.

Soby

Still awaiting my form. Nearly a month since I sent the interview form

TallGlass

Heart Break Kid wrote: »

Similar situation, Not my strongest point in any shape or form. Not going to bluff simply because I'd be worried they'd catch me out in the interview.

My stronger points or at least that what I would consider stronger is I've always been in pubic facing roles in relation to work.

Even the second question, my hobbies are games... Console gaming ect. Isn't necessarily something that will benefit the Garda. Overall section B isn't really that applicable to me but assuming it has to be entered nonetheless.

Dunno, with computer games. Alot of role playing, communication, community, team work etc.. pop it down, obviously don't use it for your main examples but if your asked about it then say that's why you like playing games. I put down I like computers and IT. Never mentioned it in the interview.

Dont bluff on anything, you'll end up trying to fill in on a missing bit of info on the fly, another person might ask you a different way about the same thing and youll be found out.

Folks, these lads do this interview stuff for a living, go in there any way sketchy and youll be out on your back side, don't over complicate things, keep it simple.

As someone said here before it's easy to look good on paper but in person it's different. I didn't do too well in my interview and more than likely failed, but I would share the above advise with others. I'll go again for the role, and hopefully the experience from this interview will get me in. Best of luck on the interview.

AudiKid

TallGlass wrote: »

Dunno, with computer games. Alot of role playing, communication, community, team work etc.. pop it down, obviously don't use it for your main examples but if your asked about it then say that's why you like playing games. I put down I like computers and IT. Never mentioned it in the interview.

Dont bluff on anything, you'll end up trying to fill in on a missing bit of info on the fly, another person might ask you a different way about the same thing and youll be found out.

Folks, these lads do this interview stuff for a living, go in there any way sketchy and youll be out on your back side, don't over complicate things, keep it simple.

As someone said here before it's easy to look good on paper but in person it's different. I didn't do too well in my interview and more than likely failed, but I would share the above advise with others. I'll go again for the role, and hopefully the experience from this interview will get me in. Best of luck on the interview.

Do not put down console gaming on your interview form! The team work, communication etc that you mentioned above are not the type of skills they are looking for.

They are a very bad interpretation of those skills!

Use general hobbies that make you look interesting and outgoing.

Like reading, travelling, playing sports with your friends, partaking in community events, socialising, running, swimming, keeping fit etc.

Heart Break Kid

AudiKid wrote: »

Use general hobbies that make you look interesting and outgoing.

Like reading, travelling, playing sports with your friends, partaking in community events, socialising, running, swimming, keeping fit etc.

Using general hobbies like those and I'd be lying, further I'd probably never interacted with the commuinity either.

Section B is kind of pointless in general for me, if it focused on the compentency based id be fine. Ill figure something out though. Might be a bit brief.

oreillylad

First time posting on here, just finished interview Thursday gone by! So here's hoping, I'm probably at a disadvantage being only 18 but it's worth a shot! Just wondering anyone else here 18 or even 19/20?? And well done all on getting this far (y)

ganthy

oreillylad wrote: »

First time posting on here, just finished interview Thursday gone by! So here's hoping, I'm probably at a disadvantage being only 18 but it's worth a shot! Just wondering anyone else here 18 or even 19/20?? And well done all on getting this far (y)

Can I ask how long were you waiting for your interview date after you sent the interview form?

As for age, there was a 19 year old in training last year.

N1ceWan

Soby wrote: »

Still awaiting my form. Nearly a month since I sent the interview form

I'm in the same boat, sent in my interview form on Monday the 2nd of August but still no sign of the form B or an interview date. Anyone else still waiting?

ganthy

N1ceWan wrote: »

I'm in the same boat, sent in my interview form on Monday the 2nd of August but still no sign of the form B or an interview date. Anyone else still waiting?

I sent mine last week. I don't see how it will be "early September" for me...

ForeverYoung90

Anybody hear how many are remaining in this campaign?My order of merit is in the 1600's.
Delighted to get this far, I know many people would give an arm and a leg to get a shot at an interview.

oreillylad

I got the interview form on the 11/07/16 and the Form B on the 23/07/16

Good to know ðŸ‘ðŸ½

TallGlass

Got my results today. I passed ! Kinda high in order of merit around 700 is that high or low?

Really have to knuckle down for the Irish examination and fitness test.

Anyone else get there results? Best of luck to all.

AudiKid

TallGlass wrote: »

Got my results today. I passed ! Kinda high in order of merit around 700 is that high or low?

Really have to knuckle down for the Irish examination and fitness test.

Anyone else get there results? Best of luck to all.

Well done!

Good luck with your Irish test!

I don't know if 700 is that high to be honest, but if your not in the November class then you will be at the start of 2017.

Garda89

Tallglass well done, by the way when did you do your interview? Did mine the last Thursday hope to hear before end of the month

TallGlass

Garda89 wrote: »

Tallglass well done, by the way when did you do your interview? Did mine the last Thursday hope to hear before end of the month

Around 2 weeks ago, I wasn't expecting mine until Friday or Monday to be honest. Delighted I passed to be honest, was really thinking I failed. Best of luck to you.

TallGlass

AudiKid wrote: »

Well done!

Good luck with your Irish test!

I don't know if 700 is that high to be honest, but if your not in the November class then you will be at the start of 2017.

Thanks, really stressing over this Irish exam, have a bit of an idea what could be on it, dunno when it is, be like a H bomb been dropped when I get the notice. But doing grinds a few weeks now so making progress just hoping I am studying the correct areas.

Garda89

Thanks. good luck with your Irish you'll fly it

MondeoMan92

Anyone that recently passed the interview is more than likely looking at getting a call for November. Rumour has it that the next intake after that is February. Either way it shouldnt be to long

Carey9

Passed the interview today, I'm in the low to mid 600 range. This worries me a little as they were rumored to only be taking on 600 in total. Surely not that many people have failed the physical/medical and vetting?

AudiKid

Carey9 wrote: »

Passed the interview today, I'm in the low to mid 600 range. This worries me a little as they were rumored to only be taking on 600 in total. Surely not that many people have failed the physical/medical and vetting?

Stage 4 does have a big failure rate, but once your fit, healthy, and once you haven't been a bold boy before then you'll be fine.

George993

AudiKid wrote: »

Stage 4 does have a big failure rate, but once your fit, healthy, and once you haven't been a bold boy before then you'll be fine.

Yeah I've also heard that there's a serious amount of people failing the fitness test. I imagine the beep test and sit-ups are the killer!

Reading the above comments am I right in saying anyone that recently passed the interview is more than likely looking at November for the next stage?

TallGlass

George993 wrote: »

Yeah I've also heard that there's a serious amount of people failing the fitness test. I imagine the beep test and sit-ups are the killer!

Reading the above comments am I right in saying anyone that recently passed the interview is more than likely looking at November for the next stage?

Don't forget the medical, BMI has to be in range also, I would say depending on background check, that would decide if your going down for November along with the other tests been passed.

Carey9

TallGlass wrote: »

Don't forget the medical, BMI has to be in range also, I would say depending on background check, that would decide if your going down for November along with the other tests been passed.

Any idea what their acceptable bmi range is? I'm fairly muscular so have a high bmi without actually being to fat.