Technical agricultural officer

StevenToast

timple23 wrote: »

Does this mean that 21 people will be considered for a position before this person is interviewed?

When will we be asked to pick our county choices?

I have no idea how this works.......for example, What if the top 50 are based in Cork, Dublin Galway and Kerry......will they skip all them and go straight to number 51 if a spot opens up in Donegal??

With the recent EO competition, it was more clear cut where you stand....

Jbel

Scored 55 49 56, placed 604 I may forget about it

StevenToast

I didnt think there would be hundreds of people applying for this!....there must have been well over a thousand anyway!

John Ryan 99

StevenToast wrote: »

I didnt think there would be hundreds of people applying for this!....there must have been well over a thousand anyway!

Ye at least a thousand my friend places 783!

Carlow20

I got into the top 20, very happy. Hopefully they dont drag this campaign out like the other campaigns out there

mulzy

Hi guys, first time posting here. Just wondering if anyone has the link to the information booklet for the TAO 2020 role. I don't appear to have saved it and can't find it online. Best of luck to everyone with the rest of the process.

Mac1993

mulzy wrote: »

Hi guys, first time posting here. Just wondering if anyone has the link to the information booklet for the TAO 2020 role. I don't appear to have saved it and can't find it online. Best of luck to everyone with the rest of the process.

Attached hopefully wrt the counties selection it says...
Following Stage one of the selection process, we will be in contact with regard to location choices.

mulzy

Mac1993 wrote: »

Attached hopefully wrt the counties selection it says...
Following Stage one of the selection process, we will be in contact with regard to location choices.

Thanks so much!:)

FoxyVixen

Jbel wrote: »

Scored 55 49 56, placed 604 I may forget about it

Placed 495 myself. Very disappointed as I thought I'd done much better than I did.

timple23

Was order of merit decided solely on aptitude test or the information we supplied also on application form?

StevenToast

timple23 wrote: »

Was order of merit decided solely on aptitude test or the information we supplied also on application form?

There is no way they went through the application forms of nearly 1000 people to place them in an OOM!!

Im certain they were based solely on the aptitude test....

An application form wouldnt be looked at until an interview was being conducted...

390kid

Got scored 699 in the test. Think il be holding onto the notice for another while

Ag20152019

Has anyone received any correspondence from PAS/Dept about an interview yet?

nicchick88

Ag20152019 wrote: »

Has anyone received any correspondence from PAS/Dept about an interview yet?

Nope. We still have to be contacted about our County preferences before being called for an interview.

timple23

nicchick88 wrote: »

Nope. We still have to be contacted about our County preferences before being called for an interview.

Other than meat factories and DVOs where would TAOs generally work?

nicchick88

timple23 wrote: »

Other than meat factories and DVOs where would TAOs generally work?

Not too sure. I had a similar role back from my home country, and mostly work worked out the office performing animal health and welfare work. They do have a role description in the DAFM website!:)

Ag20152019

Has anyone received any contact yet?

FoxyVixen

Had an update as an administration error had messed up my results!! So I've moved up the order of merit.

It states on it that they'll be in contact by the end of the month for county preferences

timple23

Did you move up by much?

StevenToast

FoxyVixen wrote: »

Had an update as an administration error had messed up my results!! So I've moved up the order of merit.

It states on it that they'll be in contact by the end of the month for county preferences

Ya...i got the same....i jumped nearly 50 places...
Im in the top 50 now!

Manning78

Hi there, got 300 in the panel wondering is there any chance of getting an interview with this or is it too far down?

Carlow20

County preferences email issued. Thought there would be a bit more choice but it is what it is

timple23

Anyone getting an error when trying to submit?

Zlatam

Manning78 wrote: »

Hi there, got 300 in the panel wondering is there any chance of getting an interview with this or is it too far down?

It could come down to what counties you put down as preference. Certain counties like Cork and Kildare will have a good few job opportunities and therefore they may go through they're aptitude panel for people who have Kildare and Cork as one or two then interview them.

Manning78

Zlatam wrote: »

It could come down to what counties you put down as preference. Certain counties like Cork and Kildare will have a good few job opportunities and therefore they may go through they're aptitude panel for people who have Kildare and Cork as one or two then interview them.

Thanks for reply! So would it be worthwhile putting in counties that would be less popular and less demand for rather than the corks or Kildares?

Zlatam

Manning78 wrote: »

Thanks for reply! So would it be worthwhile putting in counties that would be less popular and less demand for rather than the corks or Kildares?

With the likes of those counties there would be a fair share of jobs available from meat plants, to DVO or Backweston so if I was dead set on getting a job with the department I d include a county like those that have lots of work for TAOs and presently have vacancies in my 2. Other couties like Carlow or Laois may only have 1 or 2 jobs available in each.

FoxyVixen

Carlow20 wrote: »

County preferences email issued. Thought there would be a bit more choice but it is what it is

The choice is extended though on the location form? So are there jobs available in counties NOT mentioned in the public jobs correspondence?

Bit confusing

StevenToast

FoxyVixen wrote: »

The choice is extended though on the location form? So are there jobs available in counties NOT mentioned in the public jobs correspondence?

Bit confusing

There are current vacancies in the ones they listed... but id imagine you can still put your hat in the ring for other counties in case something came up

holly7up

Has anyone heard anything since the location selection?

Mac1993

holly7up wrote: »

Has anyone heard anything since the location selection?

Not a thing... i'm in the top 5 oom so surely I can't be that unlucky for county selection :rolleyes:

StevenToast

Mac1993 wrote: »

Not a thing... i'm in the top 5 oom so surely I can't be that unlucky for county selection :rolleyes:

Thats great going....maybe fire them an email for an update...

Mac1993

Just received an invitation to interview for next week. I had selected Mayo and Roscommon for my counties, it doesn't state which county it is for.

StevenToast

Mac1993 wrote: »

Just received an invitation to interview for next week. I had selected Mayo and Roscommon for my counties, it doesn't state which county it is for.

Thanks for that information, does it give you a new order of merit for those counties?

timple23

Mac1993 wrote: »

Just received an invitation to interview for next week. I had selected Mayo and Roscommon for my counties, it doesn't state which county it is for.

Is it in person or over zoom?

nicchick88

Would anyone have any idea how many people PAS will interview within the next couple of months? How many people did they recruit last campaign?

StevenToast

nicchick88 wrote: »

Would anyone have any idea how many people PAS will interview within the next couple of months? How many people did they recruit last campaign?

Is it PAS doing the interviews or the Department?

nicchick88

StevenToast wrote: »

Is it PAS doing the interviews or the Department?

From previous posts on this thread, it sounded like there was a departmental staff on the interview panel. But I'm only assuming that PAS are doing the interviews.

StevenToast

Has anyone else received news about an interview?

holly7up

Haven't heard anything, probably will be after Christmas now?

Mac1993

timple23 wrote: »

Is it in person or over zoom?

Ya so over zoom on Monday. They weren't open to changing the time so I expected PAS are block up with interviews over zoom.

StevenToast

Mac1993 wrote: »

Ya so over zoom on Monday. They weren't open to changing the time so I expected PAS are block up with interviews over zoom.

Best of luck, let us know how you get on!

Mac1993

Had a crap interview this morning but they are lovely and nice to deal. But I defo failed the interview sounded like a knobh**d throughout. Please of luck to everyone else you'll have defo moved up one place on the OOM.

StevenToast

Mac1993 wrote: »

Had a crap interview this morning but they are lovely and nice to deal. But I defo failed the interview sounded like a knobh**d throughout. Please of luck to everyone else you'll have defo moved up one place on the OOM.

Im sure it wasnt as bad as you think....do you mind telling us what kind of things they asked you?
Is it competency based?current topics?

Thanks and best of luck

Mac1993

StevenToast wrote: »

Im sure it wasnt as bad as you think....do you mind telling us what kind of things they asked you?
Is it competency based?current topics?

Thanks and best of luck

They'll send you out the usual competencies that will be on interview when you're called - Teamwork, delivery of results, personal development etc.

holly7up

Has anyone got an update regarding interviews for this? Seems like the process is moving very slowly

nicchick88

holly7up wrote: »

Has anyone got an update regarding interviews for this? Seems like the process is moving very slowly

I emailed them a couple of weeks ago, they replied saying that they will be interviewing from December right through till the end of January. Not sure how many they will actually interview, but hopefully will get to my OOM in the mid 100s

StevenToast

I got notification of an interview for the new year. I am between 40-50......

Anyone else?...what number are you?

nicchick88

StevenToast wrote: »

I got notification of an interview for the new year. I am between 40-50......

Anyone else?...what number are you?

Yes, I did! I'm 151

Fullback333

I was ranked 106 and have an interview too, must be expected a lot of people at the top of the list to get the Assistant Agricultural Inspector jobs

StevenToast

Fullback333 wrote: »

I was ranked 106 and have an interview too, must be expected a lot of people at the top of the list to get the Assistant Agricultural Inspector jobs

What Assistant Agricultural Inspector Jobs?