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coloneldecker

Irish.sherpa wrote: »

Next week, it will be my first payday on the AP scale - exactly 2 months since my appointment.

Mine was correct by 2nd pay day.

LoopyLou17

coloneldecker wrote: »

Mine was correct by 2nd pay day.

That's great Coloneldecker, much improved! Can I ask are you an existing civil servant? I am wondering for the new to the Service APs here from the Open panel, were you paid from the first applicable pay date or was there a delay? Thanks!

neilie22

Irish.sherpa wrote: »

Next week, it will be my first payday on the AP scale - exactly 2 months since my appointment.

Do they backdate it to the date of appointment?

An Ri rua

neilie22 wrote:

Do they backdate it to the date of appointment?

Always

Poppy2017

Hi all, Any movement this week on batch 3 assignments ?

NoNamesWork

Sorted on second payweek too, existing civil servant moving Dept.

Newfoundland88

Got assigned. Early 40's off InterD. It's been a long road but finally worth it!

Sheep_Lover

Newfoundland88 wrote: »

Got assigned. Early 40's off InterD. It's been a long road but finally worth it!

Congratulations Newfoundland - well done!

Just for clarification, when you say you got assigned, do you mean you have actually been assigned to your new Department already or is it the case that your HR have contacted you too say you are in clearance with a departmental assignment forthcoming?

Newfoundland88

Sheep_Lover wrote: »

Congratulations Newfoundland - well done!

Just for clarification, when you say you got assigned, do you mean you have actually been assigned to your new Department already or is it the case that your HR have contacted you too say you are in clearance with a departmental assignment forthcoming?

Thanks! Assigned to department.

Robin132

Just wondering does anyone know, if you are in the afternoon batch for testing do you need to be in Chapter house for 1 or 2 o'clock? Thanks

Nerd Queen

Robin132 wrote: »

Just wondering does anyone know, if you are in the afternoon batch for testing do you need to be in Chapter house for 1 or 2 o'clock? Thanks

1pm it is. Best of luck

Sheep_Lover

Newfoundland88 wrote: »

Thanks! Assigned to department.

For your assignment to be executed so quickly and efficiently, it had to be your own Department, am I right Newfoundland?

Poppy2017

Newfoundland88 wrote: »

Got assigned. Early 40's off InterD. It's been a long road but finally worth it!

Congratulations Newfoundland !! You must be thrilled !!

The_Conductor

Robin132 wrote: »

Just wondering does anyone know, if you are in the afternoon batch for testing do you need to be in Chapter house for 1 or 2 o'clock? Thanks

1PM- and its suggested you arrive at least 15 minutes early (aka 12.45).
Allow in the region of 4 hours for the testing process? So- you're in there until nearly 5PM in the evening. Dammit- that's smack bang peak traffic out of Dublin Think the train from Connolly is probably the best bet- better look into time tables etc.

The_Conductor

Newfoundland88 wrote: »

Thanks! Assigned to department.

Congrats!

JoeCitizen

eoinola wrote: »

Hey

so somehow I passed the First Sec interview and placed 1 on Batch 2!! Does anyone know what batch 2 means?

Thanks

Hi, just wondering if you have heard any more about this? Or if anyone else has on when appointments are likely to be made?

My partner is on that panel too, she rang a few weeks ago and was told that she is in clearance at the moment but no date could be given.

We are trying to organize some stuff at the moment so it would be really helpful
to have an idea.

shipster

In the 50s interD and assigned today Dublin panel

Enova

Congratulations, Shipster. Can I ask, was it a Dublin or Regional assignment?

Thanks!

Enova

Newfoundland88 wrote: »

Got assigned. Early 40's off InterD. It's been a long road but finally worth it!

Congratulations, Newfoundland88. Can I ask was it a Dublin or Regional assignment?

Thanks!

Sheep_Lover

shipster wrote: »

In the 50s interD and assigned today Dublin panel

Well done to you Shipster - your own Department or a new Department?

Newfoundland88

Sheep_Lover wrote: »

For your assignment to be executed so quickly and efficiently, it had to be your own Department, am I right Newfoundland?

Yes, Dublin panel and delighted to be staying where I am.

JF82

I was also told there is no firm dates but I've heard informally they'll take a few by Easter. Can I ask what position your partner is on the panel?

VONSHIRACH

Was in for the verification tests and etray recently, open batch 2. took the guts of 4 hrs with a 10min break for restroom before the etray.

verbal, numerical and job sit were fine. the job sit analysis is grand after the hectic numerical. etray fine just the time element.

after waiting a year for stage 2, it could be a while for results I imagine.

The_Conductor

I'm in tomorrow- wish me luck........ Dreading the e-tray- the rest of it should be fairly straight forward. 2 hours for the e-tray? The trial one took about 45 minutes........ Time will tell- worse case scenario- its an experience I'll leverage for next time round.

dee75

The_Conductor wrote: »

I'm in tomorrow- wish me luck........ Dreading the e-tray- the rest of it should be fairly straight forward. 2 hours for the e-tray? The trial one took about 45 minutes........ Time will tell- worse case scenario- its an experience I'll leverage for next time round.

Best of luck tomorrow!!

VONSHIRACH

The_Conductor wrote: »

I'm in tomorrow- wish me luck........ Dreading the e-tray- the rest of it should be fairly straight forward. 2 hours for the e-tray? The trial one took about 45 minutes........ Time will tell- worse case scenario- its an experience I'll leverage for next time round.

good luck..........it was my first etray and I submitted everything on time.

etray was 1hr 35 mins, first 20 minutes of this is reading the background which I think is loads, the last 75 mins is dealing with emails/calls and assignment. The last 20 mins go fast especially with pesky distraction emails.

Uriel.

Good luck conductor. It's a long ass day but hopefully worth it in the end

gazzer

Im in tomorrow at 8am. I was hoping the get the 1.15pm bus to Cavan from Busarus afterwards. Would I make it on time or would the test still be going on at that time?

The_Conductor

I have a whole new found appreciation for my AP- following that damn e-tray..........
I accidentally hit one of the function buttons on the keyboard filling the thing out- and thought I'd lost the whole thing.
The practice test may have given you a brief glimpse of what the e-tray is like- but by God- the actual test is a whole different level of awfulness.
Its marked automatically though- so on the brightside the results probably won't be long in coming out.
Verbal and numerical were pretty ok- the workskills- toss a coin- and then that damn bloody awful e-tray..........
Fecking hell.

VONSHIRACH

gazzer wrote: »

Im in tomorrow at 8am. I was hoping the get the 1.15pm bus to Cavan from Busarus afterwards. Would I make it on time or would the test still be going on at that time?

You will be finished and out the door at 11.40am so you can grab a bit of lunch

VONSHIRACH

The_Conductor wrote: »

I have a whole new found appreciation for my AP- following that damn e-tray..........
I accidentally hit one of the function buttons on the keyboard filling the thing out- and thought I'd lost the whole thing.
The practice test may have given you a brief glimpse of what the e-tray is like- but by God- the actual test is a whole different level of awfulness.
Its marked automatically though- so on the brightside the results probably won't be long in coming out.
Verbal and numerical were pretty ok- the workskills- toss a coin- and then that damn bloody awful e-tray..........
Fecking hell.

same thing happened to me mid way thru. I stuck up my hand and supervisor sorted it in 2 seconds.

etray won't be marked if you fail any of the first three.

when you are used to a particular keyboard the test centre ones are basic enough.

The_Conductor

VONSHIRACH wrote: »

You will be finished and out the door at 11.40am so you can grab a bit of lunch

I was in @ 12.45 today- and it was fully 4 hours later before we were finished....... You'd be well advised to heed the e-mail about setting 4 hours aside- you will actually use it.

sheepstealer

had the test this afternoon. Verbal numerical ok as for job scenarios it really is a toss of a coin. I felt I had too much time as I read and reread them changing my mind. I still don't get what the difference is between e.g. Effective or slightly effective. Surely if you do something it either works or it doesn't ?!

As for Etray I made a balls of it and a bit too much cut and paste in my submissions.

Ecribbin

sheepstealer wrote: »

had the test this afternoon. Verbal numerical ok as for job scenarios it really is a toss of a coin. I felt I had too much time as I read and reread them changing my mind. I still don't get what the difference is between e.g. Effective or slightly effective. Surely if you do something it either works or it doesn't ?!

As for Etray I made a balls of it and a bit too much cut and paste in my submissions.

If it helps I had time to go back over my answers for the job scenarios and changed almost all of them.
I kind of assumed that meant I didn't really know what I was saying (which is still possible) but I scored well.

It seems to me that people know when they didn't get it, and if you don't _know_ that, you probably did well.

gazzer

Well that was a tough morning yesterday. I got there for 7.30am so went next door and had tea and then headed in to do the test. I flew through the verbal so I am bit worried about that I finished with 8 minutes to spare. I found the maths pretty hard. Normally that would be my strongest area. I got it all done though with about 40 seconds to spare.

I wasnt too impresed with the Job section. I much prefer when you only have to give one definitive answer. Anyway I changed my answers a couple of times so not sure if I did well in that.

The eTray was new to me. It wasnt as bad as I had feared though the briefing note I had to do was not the best . I got everything done though so was happy with that.

I was starving and tired after it finished so went straight for food and then slept on the bus back to Cavan. Think I got some bug though in the room because I woke up this morning feeling like crap.

gazzer

VONSHIRACH wrote: »

You will be finished and out the door at 11.40am so you can grab a bit of lunch

Sorry. Only getting to reply to you now. I had time for a big lunch before I got the bus. Thanks for the info.

DoPoGo

Any idea what number they are at in batch 3? Think they were at number 35 at start Jan. How many in each batch I wonder...Have heard you aren't told where you are going to be posted before you accept job, is that true?

One timer

I am high 80's on the open, batch 3 in dublin. I am not a sitting civil servant.

I have been told they have started vetting and also told my probable assignment, he said that was subject to change.

Just a note to say thank you to all the previous posters here. It is a very long process and information here has been very helpful.

Sheep_Lover

One timer wrote: »

I am high 80's on the open, batch 3 in dublin. I am not a sitting civil servant.

I have been told they have started vetting and also told my probable assignment, he said that was subject to change.

Just a note to say thank you to all the previous posters here. It is a very long process and information here has been very helpful.

Well done and congratulations - I'm surprised you've been told of a probable assignment, that is somewhat unusual, did you receive any indication to when your assignment will be confirmed. The frequency of rate of assignments off Batch 3 suggests the Dublin tagged candidates in the 140 or so in this Batch will all be assigned by the end of April/May. I would suggest the Batch 4 candidates, who recently undertook phase 2 testing, will begin to be assigned in early Summer.

Woodenframe

Any estimate on when the latest stage 2 results will be out?

whampiri

If you're referring to the supervised exams done last week, at it they said 4-5 weeks.

Woodenframe

whampiri wrote: »

If you're referring to the supervised exams done last week, at it they said 4-5 weeks.

I was, thanks.

Poppy2017

Woodenframe, when I did it I had results in about 4 weeks.

Lmh79

mid 80s on the panel are in clearance now!

Poppy2017

Lmh79 wrote: »

mid 80s on the panel are in clearance now!

Great stuff - any idea how the regions are going ? Any Batch 3 people getting regional assignments ???

Gaffer78

Can anybody say roughly where PAS are at on the interdepartmental stream of batch 3, as opposed to the open stream which we know is in the 80s.

Sheep_Lover

Gaffer78 wrote: »

Can anybody say roughly where PAS are at on the interdepartmental stream of batch 3, as opposed to the open stream which we know is in the 80s.

If the open is late eighties, you can safely estimate the interdepartmental to be at early sixties at least.

Sheep_Lover

Hi all, Any movement this week on batch 3 assignments?

One timer

Sheep_Lover wrote: »

Well done and congratulations - I'm surprised you've been told of a probable assignment, that is somewhat unusual, did you receive any indication to when your assignment will be confirmed. The frequency of rate of assignments off Batch 3 suggests the Dublin tagged candidates in the 140 or so in this Batch will all be assigned by the end of April/May. I would suggest the Batch 4 candidates, who recently undertook phase 2 testing, will begin to be assigned in early Summer.

Hi. I was assigned today

sodacake1968

There are people on from Batch 1 still waiting on regional appointments!