Civil Service Clerical Officer Campaign 2017 (Dublin)

rsl1976

Advertised on publicjobs.ie today

gerbilgranny

That'll be a pleasant surprise to many people, I'm guessing.

hdowney

I was just about to post this. I'm applying now.

vector

hdowney wrote: »

I was just about to post this. I'm applying now.

Does this mean that the 2016 (26 country) clerical officer panel is finally dead?

Waffleturd

vector wrote: »

Does this mean that the 2016 (26 country) clerical officer panel is finally dead?

I would assume it means they're about to exhaust the 2016 Dublin panel, at least.
I assume the outside Dublin panels will run until next summer.

R777B

Considering this this just for Dublin positions would people expect it to move faster than normal country-wide panels?

job seeker

Why does it give you three options in the application form?

- Clerical Officer - Dublin
- Clerical Officer - Irish Stream (Dublin)
- Clerical Officer - National Shared Services Office

Like what's the difference between the three? Can anyone please tell me?

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job seeker wrote: »

Why does it give you three options in the application form?

- Clerical Officer - Dublin
- Clerical Officer - Irish Stream (Dublin)
- Clerical Officer - National Shared Services Office

Like what's the difference between the three? Can anyone please tell me?

Dublin is Dublin. Irish stream refers to ability to interview and fulfil the job is the Irish medium..

No idea on the other.

Conqueror

The National Shared Services Office is PeoplePoint. Basically, the shared HR service for the entire Civil Service. They're based in Clonskeagh, Dublin 4.

hdowney

I put down Dublin and the PeoplePoint one. No point putting Irish stream cos I am beyond useless. I can say here and ask to go to the loo (standard Irish primary school!).

I'd be interested enough in the PeoplePoint HR one, and then whatever else comes up in the standard stream. I assume we won't hear a jot about the next stages until the application closing date?

Slippin Jimmy

Applied for this last night. Never applied for the Civil Service before so should be interesting to see how the process works.

fin12

Anyone know what it is like to work in People Point?

Anoushka

vector wrote:

Does this mean that the 2016 (26 country) clerical officer panel is finally dead?

Nope. It is a totally different competition. No harm to apply but positions are only in Dublin.

Conqueror

Anoushka wrote: »

It is actually Dublin 14 and not Dublin 4.... information in their pack is incorrect.

I worked in PeoplePoint until very recently. They're in Belfield Office Park on Beech Hill Road, which is in Dublin 4. They're just about there, but their postal address says it, and Eircode agrees. Clonskeagh itself is in D14, but PeoplePoint (and the NSSO) isn't.

fin12

Conqueror wrote: »

I worked in PeoplePoint until very recently. They're in Belfield Office Park on Beech Hill Road, which is in Dublin 4. They're just about there, but their postal address says it, and Eircode agrees. Clonskeagh itself is in D14, but PeoplePoint (and the NSSO) isn't.

Hi do u mind if I ask you what it's like to work there please? I'm just unsure whether to thick the box for NSSO and closing date is 2morrow. I'd really appreciate any info.

Conqueror

fin12 wrote: »

Hi do u mind if I ask you what it's like to work there please? I'm just unsure whether to thick the box for NSSO and closing date is 2morrow. I'd really appreciate any info.

I really enjoyed it overall. PeoplePoint has a number of sections (including Pay, Leave, Absences, Resignations and Retirements, Document Management, and Portal) with different functions. As a CO, you'll be working on cases raised by individual civil servants, or line managers, or local HR units, depending on what team you're in and what the case is about. Cases are normally raised through the PeoplePoint portal. Again, what cases you work on depends on what section you're in.
There's about 340 people there, and I found everyone I dealt with to be lovely, right up to the Principal Officer. It can be stressful at certain times: Resignations and Retirements would be very busy in September/October, Leave very busy leading up to holiday periods, etc. Sometimes, there can be delays with your caseload, especially if you're depending on other teams or local HR units to get back to you. Overall though, I really enjoyed working there, and I made a lot of friends, especially on my own team.
PeoplePoint sometimes gets bad press from the media (usually after a major data breach, which obviously isn't good) or from other civil servants (because they aren't happy with a centralised HR that refuses to do special favours like the local HR units once could), but I found it a good and fun place to work.

Davio

When will applicants receive further details regarding these positions?

direstraits

Received text message earlier regarding upcoming assessment stage 1.

Check your texts and inbox on www.publicjobs.ie

hdowney

direstraits wrote: »

Received text message earlier regarding upcoming assessment stage 1.

Check your texts and inbox on www.publicjobs.ie

Got one too 😊

Slippin Jimmy

Same here.

Iseedeadpixels

Assessment to be sent out on Friday the 13th.....hope nobody is superstitious :pac:

Hana98

How would you prepare for the assessment? First time doing anything like this.

fin12

Hardly no time to prepare. Usually u get at
Least a week to 2.

Kamu

Surprised and happy to see this in my message box. Hopefully the 13th is lucky for me.

hdowney

Got my text to say my assessment was in my PAS account.

Gonna sit down with coffee tomorrow and complete. Good luck to all

Slippin Jimmy

hdowney wrote: »

Got my text to say my assessment was in my PAS account.

Gonna sit down with coffee tomorrow and complete. Good luck to all

Completed my assessment just there. Seemed pretty straight forward.

Tiger dj

Slippin Jimmy what questions did you have ?

Slippin Jimmy

Tiger dj wrote: »

Slippin Jimmy what questions did you have ?

The first part was a general statement and how you agreed or disagreed with it. The second part was a short paragraph and you were given 4-5 responses. You had to rate them as good answer, adequate answer or bad answer.

Fairly straight forward being honest.

DMcL1971

How long did it take to do the whole thing?

Slippin Jimmy

DMcL1971 wrote: »

How long did it take to do the whole thing?

There's no time limit on it that I could see. Took me roughly half an hour.

diceyreilly

Just tried to do it now, says the page is unavailable.

rsl1976

Done mine earlier. Agree it's fairly straightforward and not timed. Says to give yourself 60 minutes but I done it in about 30 minutes or less.

Slippin Jimmy

diceyreilly wrote: »

Just tried to do it now, says the page is unavailable.

Did you try a different browser?

Kamu

Just finished mine there, took about 30 mins. As others have stated, was straight-forward, not sure why, but I thought it was going to be the numerical and verbal tests and so on, so I was pumped up for that, a little let down that it was only an aptitude assessment for the role. :P

fin12

I assume there will be aptitude tests after this stage.

Kamu

How long before the next stage I wonder?

Louiselennon2

Kamu wrote: »

How long before the next stage I wonder?

Does anybody have the original information booklet for clerical officer that you can email me ðŸ™ðŸ¼

Slippin Jimmy

New message today:

Stage 1 Assessment Questionnaire for the Clerical 2017 (Dublin) competition has been extended to 1pm on Monday 23rd October 2017.

job seeker

Slippin Jimmy wrote: »

New message today:

Stage 1 Assessment Questionnaire for the Clerical 2017 (Dublin) competition has been extended to 1pm on Monday 23rd October 2017.

Done mine last night! I don't know if we can discuss the answers we selected? Is that allowed here?

Cathyban

Hi there. Has anyone been through this process before? Any idea what the likely wait time for next assessment? Thanks a lot.

diceyreilly

Through to the next stage.

Score required 300

Score achieved 528.

Anoushka

Just got results from Stage 1 back. I reached the qualifying standard at Stage 1.  Fingers crossed they reach my number ASAP. Has anyone else got the results back today?

Anoushka

diceyreilly wrote:

Score achieved 528.

Congratulations!

Slippin Jimmy

Got through to the next stage!

isabella5

Got my result 637 my oom 527. How many people are getting recruited. Is oom your position?

hdowney

Result was 543. Oom is 2426. Fingers crossed.

tgdaly

Oom was 2054, hopeful but not expectant!

Misanthropico

Hi all!

Result was 642, OOM is 524. Any how many COs are being recruited?

diceyreilly

Anoushka wrote: »

Just got results from Stage 1 back. I reached the qualifying standard at Stage 1.  Fingers crossed they reach my number ASAP. Has anyone else got the results back today?

Sorry new to this. What you mean reach your number?

marmieB

Hi All,
They will probably do online verbal and numerical online tests next.
They hired loads of people for Dublin for EO lately.
My OOM is 4000 and I am hopeful!

BoltzmannBrain

Now I'm hopeful thanks to your optimism marmieB!