Executive Officer Campaign 2016

sinny65

6148 😧 Really disappointed with that. Thought I'd done better. I'm hoping very few applied in my region and I get in by the skin of my teeth . Wishful thinking but ya gotta be positive

Full Marx

Really delighted I got in the 200s!

Crunchymomma

doc11 wrote: »

keepkeyyellow wrote: »

Got 151 and had 63 in the assessment and verbal which I think is interesting

So a total score of 126 will get you to 150. The margins must be so tight in this, each point is worth 100-170 places on panel. One correct answer on test could be worth 500 places.

doc11 wrote: »

keepkeyyellow wrote: »

Got 151 and had 63 in the assessment and verbal which I think is interesting

Im in late 1500s with total score of 111

Catuohy89

Belle23 wrote: »

can I ask what were your location preferences? My number matched yours

Just Dublin. But regions aren't taken into account yet. It's probably because we got the exact same scores. They can't put one person at 244 and another at 245 if it was the same score.

Monife

Placed in the 5,000s, no hope for me. I would love to know what they're looking for in the assessment questionnaire as the last time I barely passed it and this time I got 53/80.

Real pity the numerical scores aren't taken into account as I did much better there (and I'm female!)

carnie

Failed the numerical by 2 points. I knew I did **** this time around

Catuohy89

Raging I was 2 weeks shy of eligibility for the interdepartmental. One of the lads here placed 422 but 165 on the interdepartmental. I was 244 so I imagine I would have been higher than 165 on interdepartmental! Ah sure what are you gonna do!

doc11

Crunchymomma wrote: »

doc11 wrote: »

Im in late 1500s with total score of 111

your 10 points yet 3000 ahead of me almost 300 a point, Didn't you finish top of your region in clerical too.

I preferred the out of 8000 rather then 80 scoring cause you can divide candidates up better

Crunchymomma

Monife wrote: »

Placed in the 5,000s, no hope for me. I would love to know what they're looking for in the assessment questionnaire as the last time I barely passed it and this time I got 53/80.

Real pity the numerical scores aren't taken into account as I did much better there (and I'm female!)

I do wish the numerical was taken into account too as I'm a maths head and always do the best here out of the three sections

Richmond Ultra

I got 5,500 ish with a score of 97 so I take it I will be staying at my call centre gig for the foreseeable future.

xDisneyDivax

Overall results don't make sense like say for example majority of top 500 put Dublin down as their choice and they wouldn't want to work in Sligo..... am I missing something here?

Crunchymomma

doc11 wrote: »

Crunchymomma wrote: »

your 10 points yet 3000 ahead of me almost 300 a point, Didn't you finish top of your region in clerical too.

I preferred the out of 8000 rather then 80 scoring cause you can divide candidates up better

Yeah finished top in both regions for CO. Need to up my game here though!!

slaneylad

Crunchymomma wrote: »

doc11 wrote: »

Im in late 1500s with total score of 111

Early 2000 with a combined score of 109. So I'm thinking I missed out by 1 mark.

juncert

I see from the other thread the last EO campaign, verbal was out of 800 needed 270 to pass, and numerical was out of 800 needed 238 to pass.But this time around its out of 80 and need 40 for each to pass so maybe maths has gone up on qualifying level.

80sbaby

I got placed in the 50's I'm in total shock, can't believe it, is that in the region or in the entire competition?

JobHunter2000

Am I right in thinking that all the scores for those through to supervised tests will change again after round two?

juncert

Double post

Crunchymomma

JobHunter2000 wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that all the scores for those through to supervised tests will change again after round two?

Yeah and again after interview and etray

ahnowbrowncow

Copper_pipe wrote: »

While you were required to reach the qualifying standard in each test, your place on the order of merit was determined by your scores in the Assessment Questionnaire and Verbal Test only.

Didn't read that, once again they don't take it into account but the qualifying mark is a lot higher than before, 50% compared to 30% previously.

stuchyg

1700s inter and mid 4000 in the open . Did shockingly bad, finished in the mid 300s in the last EO.

Too much going on when I did these ones to fully focus on them. Best of luck to everyone and maybe they will get far down the panel again this time

WoolyJumper

80sbaby wrote: »

I got placed in the 50's I'm in total shock, can't believe it, is that in the region or in the entire competition?

From what others have said here it looks like the entire Country. Congrats! Either way thats a great score

doc11

80sbaby wrote: »

I got placed in the 50's I'm in total shock, can't believe it, is that in the region or in the entire competition?

What was your total score 128? amazing placing out of 15000

JJayoo

Just chatted to a friend who scored below 100 and she cheated. She might be screwed though when she goes to take the supervised tests lol

80sbaby

doc11 wrote: »

What was your total score 128?

131

doc11

JJayoo wrote: »

Just chatted to a friend who scored below 100 and she cheated. She might be screwed though when she goes to take the supervised tests lol

how

Richie71

Score of 108 placed 2267. Pity the Numerical didn't count, scored 70 in that.:(

Full Marx

How much notice do they give for the supervised tests? It will be hard to organise time off

Crunchymomma

Full Marx wrote: »

How much notice do they give for the supervised tests? It will be hard to organise time off

Could be less than a week. For CO I think I got two weeks

JJayoo

doc11 wrote: »

JJayoo wrote: »

Just chatted to a friend who scored below 100 and she cheated. She might be screwed though when she goes to take the supervised tests lol

how

She had one of her friends also apply and they did all the tests before her and screenshot all the questions. So she had all the questions for a few days before actually sitting the test

Username exists

sinny65 wrote: »

6148 😧 Really disappointed with that. Thought I'd done better. I'm hoping very few applied in my region and I get in by the skin of my teeth . Wishful thinking but ya gotta be positive

6149, shakes fist ✊

Crunchymomma

It will be interesting to see when they make regional panels. Will they wait til after etray and interview? Or will they do it after stage two

eroc79

Belle23 wrote: »

I just got the exact same number as some-one else, how is that possible would anyone know?

Your number just tells you how many came higher than you but not how many are possibly at the same rank as you.

Butterfly182

Placed 762.

Invited to stage 2.

What is an etray?

Is the supervised test 30 verbal and 30 numeric questions again and is it done on a computer?

How does anyone know how many EO job vacancies there will be? Do i have a chance?

My areas are Dublin and Cork.

Anyone know what they have done in the past for EO competitions for section process i.e. Is it an online test, then supervised and then an interview?

uck51js9zml2yt

4980.....does that mean I'm out:rolleyes:

whatlliwear

stuchyg wrote: »

1700s inter and mid 4000 in the open . Did shockingly bad, finished in the mid 300s in the last EO.

Too much going on when I did these ones to fully focus on them. Best of luck to everyone and maybe they will get far down the panel again this time

I got similar results. Gutted!:(

eroc79

Butterfly182 wrote: »

Placed 762.

Invited to stage 2.

How do i find out what areas i selected i can't remember what i picked?

What is an etray?

Is the supervised test 30 verbal and 30 numeric questions again and is it done on a computer?

How does anyone know how many EO job vacancies there will be? Do i have a chance?

The supervised is a repeat off the tests we just did (not the same questions). The e tray is meant to simulate the work you would have to do day to day. I think it's like answering emails. This would be done if you get past stage 2.
The number of positions available was mentioned in the papers around the time the competition was announced.

Butterfly182

eroc79 wrote: »

The supervised is a repeat off the tests we just did (not the same questions). The e tray is meant to simulate the work you would have to do day to day. I think it's like answering emails. This would be done if you get past stage 2.
The number of positions available was mentioned in the papers around the time the competition was announced.

Thanks, found an online link which says there could be up to 300 jobs filled from the open competition.

greenb

Placed mid-thirties on order of merit, shocked as wasn't too confident about the assessment piece and maths is my strongest area! Anyone have any idea how many positions are actually going to be available?

greenb

greenb wrote: »

Placed mid-thirties on order of merit, shocked as wasn't too confident about the assessment piece and maths is my strongest area! Anyone have any idea how many positions are actually going to be available?

Sorry! just see the answer to my question posted just before mine....

etar

I'm sickened, my Verbal was very bad, i passed but it's way down on the last time I did these tests, numerical very good 80% but scored in the 4000's :-(
don't know what went wrong with my verbal.
Congrats to everyone that got through.

Wheety

JJayoo wrote: »

She had one of her friends also apply and they did all the tests before her and screenshot all the questions. So she had all the questions for a few days before actually sitting the test

They need to get SHL or whoever to have a much bigger bank of questions, like over a thousand and then give each person a random 30 or so.

Crunchymomma

I wonder how long they are planning to take to bring the 1700 or so to stage two. Without regional panels but considering they took preferences it would make sense to do them relatively close together. Or else how would they create regional panels?

PurvesGrundy

I scored 6417 but it says I'm through to the next stage.

I probably shouldn't place too much hope.

doc11

Wheety wrote: »

They need to get SHL or whoever to have a much bigger bank of questions, like over a thousand and then give each person a random 30 or so.

have different tests/questions and bell curve bell them. The fact you can cheat and then on the second test have similar questions means you won't get caught. Really unfair on those that do it proper.

greenb

Does anyone know how they calculate your score after the next round. I assume you must once again just pass the numerical and your assessment questionnaire score remains the same? How do they score the verbal, do they discard this result, or take an average of the two tests, or take your highest score?

lakeview35

In the 5000's. 2000's for the interdepartmental. Haven't a hope in hell of of being called to stage two over the next couple of years. Gutted :-(

Those that did cheat will hopefully be caught out in the verification round.

sureitsgrand

greenb wrote: »

Does anyone know how they calculate your score after the next round. I assume you must once again just pass the numerical and your assessment questionnaire score remains the same? How do they score the verbal, do they discard this result, or take an average of the two tests, or take your highest score?

I'd be interested to know this as well.

I did relatively well on verbal and numerical but pretty poorly on assessment (just about got over the 40). Therefore, am I right in thinking that the only way I can possibly get a better ranking is by improving again on the verbal (and making sure I pass the numerical)?

If so, I won't be moving much. My verbal was a high score.

FloatingVoter

Inter'D 175

Open 546

Average marks (52, 58 on the verbal and numberical). I was drinking at the time:rolleyes:. A fluke 66 on that gob****e assessment puts me in contention. It isn't fair to factor in some fairground guessing game that any one of us would probably fail or ace if it had to be taken again.

And yes, as for the screenshot game that's so bloody obvious you'd wonder how computer literate our SHL overlords are.

sureitsgrand

FloatingVoter wrote: »

It isn't fair to factor in some fairground guessing game that any one of us would probably fail or ace if it had to be taken again.

Absolutely. It's a joke that chance seemingly plays such a deciding factor in how future civil servants are chosen. I'd say lots of extremely capable people lose out (and become disenfranchised with a career in the public sector) as a result.

eroc79

Wheety wrote: »

They need to get SHL or whoever to have a much bigger bank of questions, like over a thousand and then give each person a random 30 or so.

Agree