Civil Service Clerical Officer Campaign 2017 (Dublin)

TommyGun2017

I got the call earlier today. I’m starting in DOJ on the 7th January. They’re gonna email me out a contract shortly. They couldn’t say which specific location at this point but did say city centre. Happy out! For reference I’m batch 2 OOM 60’s

only girl

TommyGun2017 wrote: »

I got the call earlier today. I’m starting in DOJ on the 7th January. They’re gonna email me out a contract shortly. They couldn’t say which specific location at this point but did say city centre. Happy out! For reference I’m batch 2 OOM 60’s

Congratulations to you, are you happy with that?
Do you mind me asking when they checked your references? How long were you waiting for the offer after they checked? And did you say you had to give a months notice? I can't imagine they'll start anyone in a new role this side of Christmas.

EllG

dub70 wrote: »

Im still waiting for extra clearance. Getting fed up now

What does your vetting say when you track it?

EllG

Lornzzz wrote: »

Just got the email to say starting in store street 10 am monday , anyone else starting then ?

How are you getting on in store street?

TommyGun2017

only girl wrote: »

Congratulations to you, are you happy with that?
Do you mind me asking when they checked your references? How long were you waiting for the offer after they checked? And did you say you had to give a months notice? I can't imagine they'll start anyone in a new role this side of Christmas.

Thanks a lot, I’m chuffed. I only had one reference which is my current boss of 3 years. PAS contacted him a few days after my initial phone call which was the 7th. So from reaching my number to being given a start date was only two weeks including vetting.

I just suggested that I start early new year and they were fine with that. Hope that helps somewhat. And good luck!

only girl

TommyGun2017 wrote: »

Thanks a lot, I’m chuffed. I only had one reference which is my current boss of 3 years. PAS contacted him a few days after my initial phone call which was the 7th. So from reaching my number to being given a start date was only two weeks including vetting.

I just suggested that I start early new year and they were fine with that. Hope that helps somewhat. And good luck!

Great, just what I was hoping to hear. They are calling my current employer this week and all vetting is complete.
Would ideally like to finish up in my job mid December and start fresh in January. I'm batch 1 oom 930 so been waiting a while to hear!
Best of luck

Paperhelper

TommyGun2017 wrote: »

I got the call earlier today. I’m starting in DOJ on the 7th January. They’re gonna email me out a contract shortly. They couldn’t say which specific location at this point but did say city centre. Happy out! For reference I’m batch 2 OOM 60’s

Ah that's great well done and best of good luck.

Gra11

TommyGun2017 wrote: »

I got the call earlier today. I’m starting in DOJ on the 7th January. They’re gonna email me out a contract shortly. They couldn’t say which specific location at this point but did say city centre. Happy out! For reference I’m batch 2 OOM 60’s

I started in chapter house and its great. Brilliant location

Jobseeker2018

TommyGun2017 wrote: »

I got the call earlier today. I’m starting in DOJ on the 7th January. They’re gonna email me out a contract shortly. They couldn’t say which specific location at this point but did say city centre. Happy out! For reference I’m batch 2 OOM 60’s

Congrats, DOJ have lots of offices in city centre. They have some in the PAS building, burgh quay & Hanover street too but there are alot more than those. Depending on the section you go to. I did 18 months tco in that dept. Very interesting work.

dub70

EllG wrote: »

What does your vetting say when you track it?

I can't track it anymore as its gone from the system. Rang garda clearance and they said im in stage 3, then i called pas and they told me they would look into it and get back to me but no call this week.

doawheelie2020

Once you are placed does that guarantee you a job?

only girl

doawheelie2020 wrote: »

Once you are placed does that guarantee you a job?

God, I would hope so. My boss got the call yesterday for my reference. Can hardly stay now.

Paperhelper

Of course for sure

Lenamagda

Hi guys
Just to let u know I'm Bach 2 230 got a phone call today and starting on 7th of January in foraign affairs and trade, does anybody worked there and could let me know how is it To work there, thanks

Mulligan11

I’m waiting to be placed but need a statement from Department of Social Protection to say what benefits I had (none) since I last worked in 2001 but it’s been nearly 5 weeks and I still haven’t got it, even my Garda vetting is back! Any suggestions to hurry this up? Thanks

Crunchymomma

Mulligan11 wrote: »

I’m waiting to be placed but need a statement from Department of Social Protection to say what benefits I had (none) since I last worked in 2001 but it’s been nearly 5 weeks and I still haven’t got it, even my Garda vetting is back! Any suggestions to hurry this up? Thanks

Did you go into the social welfare office? The woman in my local one did the print out for me right there when j went in and asked

Mulligan11

Crunchymomma wrote: »

Mulligan11 wrote: »

I’m waiting to be placed but need a statement from Department of Social Protection to say what benefits I had (none) since I last worked in 2001 but it’s been nearly 5 weeks and I still haven’t got it, even my Garda vetting is back! Any suggestions to hurry this up? Thanks

Did you go into the social welfare office? The woman in my local one did the print out for me right there when j went in and asked

Great, I’ll try that, thank you.

SoolsDublin

Does anyone know when Pas will break for Christmas please . I'm early batch 3 and can see that their over half way through 2 now

Dalio

SoolsDublin wrote: »

Does anyone know when Pas will break for Christmas please . I'm early batch 3 and can see that their over half way through 2 now

Well yes for the bank holidays etc. But it slows over Christmas because staff take time off and other departments are also down staff.

Ertin

Hi, I have been keeping an eye on this thread from early on but is my first post. Passed my interview a couple of weeks ago and am in Batch 4, just wanted to say thanks to the various people that put up tips & info about interviews it was very useful.
I've seen a couple of people say there is 400 in batch 2 & others say 1000 just wondering if anyone had a definitive answer on it and batch 3 as i contacted PAS earlier and they could only say how far along they are but couldn't give out how many are in each batch?

SoolsDublin

Ertin wrote: »

Hi, I have been keeping an eye on this thread from early on but is my first post. Passed my interview a couple of weeks ago and am in Batch 4, just wanted to say thanks to the various people that put up tips & info about interviews it was very useful.
I've seen a couple of people say there is 400 in batch 2 & others say 1000 just wondering if anyone had a definitive answer on it and batch 3 as i contacted PAS earlier and they could only say how far along they are but couldn't give out how many are in each batch?

Hi, When I contacted Pas a few weeks back ,i was told there is 390 people in batch 2 . I was unsure if this was 390 people out of 1000 passed the interview or 390 people total stage 2.

Did they say what number they were at today please . I'm in the 100s batch 3 so can't tell you any higher than that in my batch

Ertin

SoolsDublin wrote: »

Hi, When I contacted Pas a few weeks back ,i was told there is 390 people in batch 2 . I was unsure if this was 390 people out of 1000 passed the interview or 390 people total stage 2.

Did they say what number they were at today please . I'm in the 100s batch 3 so can't tell you any higher than that in my batch

They said today they were in the 300's so suppose will find out soon enough if people from batch 3 start posting they've been contacted

Paperhelper

Ertin wrote: »

They said today they were in the 300's so suppose will find out soon enough if people from batch 3 start posting they've been contacted

I am in the 310s and gone into clearance

tgdaly

How long does clearance usually take? Got an email 2 weeks ago saying my number was reached, that they had to check references and process everything before they could even tell me a department. I said it was fine, no contact since then though and they didn't ask me to submit anything or do anything else

TommyGun2017

Can anyone give me a bit of advice ?Starting in Justice early January. Have had a long weekend away booked for 8th February prior to my job offer. Would be looking for the Friday and Monday off after only a month in the job. Anyone envisage this being a problem? Thanks

sully123

TommyGun2017 wrote: »

Can anyone give me a bit of advice ?Starting in Justice early January. Have had a long weekend away booked for 8th February prior to my job offer. Would be looking for the Friday and Monday off after only a month in the job. Anyone envisage this being a problem? Thanks

Civil Service.

No Problemo!

Jobseeker2018

TommyGun2017 wrote: »

Can anyone give me a bit of advice ?Starting in Justice early January. Have had a long weekend away booked for 8th February prior to my job offer. Would be looking for the Friday and Monday off after only a month in the job. Anyone envisage this being a problem? Thanks

Just say it the day you start, there will be no problems. You will have leave to use between January and the end of March anyway and your leave is nearly automatically awarded to you. Plus if it's a little bit more than a month, you could work up flexi leave and that's a total of 11 hours & 7 minutes for 1 and half days leave. You can build that up every month.

mascherano11

Hi guys I’ve been place in An Garda Siochana in Harcourt Square anyone any experience of working with the guards? I have previous experience with the CS and am a few rungs up the pay scale do I have to go right back to first point of the scale? Is flexi time available with the garda?

abellew

Ertin wrote: »

Hi, I have been keeping an eye on this thread from early on but is my first post. Passed my interview a couple of weeks ago and am in Batch 4, just wanted to say thanks to the various people that put up tips & info about interviews it was very useful.
I've seen a couple of people say there is 400 in batch 2 & others say 1000 just wondering if anyone had a definitive answer on it and batch 3 as i contacted PAS earlier and they could only say how far along they are but couldn't give out how many are in each batch?

Hi I’m in batch 4 and still waiting to be called to interview can you give me an idea of what OOM you were

Ertin

abellew wrote: »

Hi I’m in batch 4 and still waiting to be called to interview can you give me an idea of what OOM you were

Yeah i'm 4.1 20

abellew

I’m in Batch 4 OOM in the early 100’s I wasn’t given a .1 or .2

Jobseeker2018

Quick question: once evetting is submitted and then the disclosure made & viewed for those who have completed this how long between that and hearing back from PAS? TIA

Gra11

Jobseeker2018 wrote: »

Quick question: once evetting is submitted and then the disclosure made & viewed for those who have completed this how long between that and hearing back from PAS? TIA

About 2 weeks....

Paperhelper

Ciao Belle wrote: »

Finally got my message yesterday to say I have been assigned to AGS...

How long after this message did you hear from AGS Personnel directly...

Hi how you finding the AGs office ?

dub70

15weeks and still waiting for clearance

tgdaly

"Hello,

xxxxx has passed your file to me to continue with the clearance.

A reference is still outstanding from your referee. Can you please speak to your employer regarding the reference?

If we cannot secure a reference by Monday, December 3rd, your application will receive no further consideration"

Just got this from PAS. They hae asked me 2 weeks ago was it ok to check reference and I said it was. Is it not up to them to contact my reference? Did people get a letter and send it in? Thought surely they would usually contact them on your behalf

EllG

tgdaly wrote: »

"Hello,

xxxxx has passed your file to me to continue with the clearance.

A reference is still outstanding from your referee. Can you please speak to your employer regarding the reference?

If we cannot secure a reference by Monday, December 3rd, your application will receive no further consideration"

Just got this from PAS. They hae asked me 2 weeks ago was it ok to check reference and I said it was. Is it not up to them to contact my reference? Did people get a letter and send it in? Thought surely they would usually contact them on your behalf

They sent my employer a form to fill out through email. Id get onto your employer and ask have they heard anything

EllG

tgdaly wrote: »

"Hello,

xxxxx has passed your file to me to continue with the clearance.

A reference is still outstanding from your referee. Can you please speak to your employer regarding the reference?

If we cannot secure a reference by Monday, December 3rd, your application will receive no further consideration"

Just got this from PAS. They hae asked me 2 weeks ago was it ok to check reference and I said it was. Is it not up to them to contact my reference? Did people get a letter and send it in? Thought surely they would usually contact them on your behalf

Also get your employer to check their spam emails im pretty sure my employer said the email was in there

TommyGun2017

Jobseeker2018 wrote: »

Quick question: once evetting is submitted and then the disclosure made & viewed for those who have completed this how long between that and hearing back from PAS? TIA

Think mine was 8 days. Shouldn't be long now

Leela82

Does anyone know if there is flexi time with the guards?

Paperhelper

Leela82 wrote: »

Does anyone know if there is flexi time with the guards?

Yes there is.

doawheelie2020

I work currently for an employer who has a company policy of no references just a signed sheet to say I work there. So I just put down my former employers and a chairman of sporting organisation I play for. Does anyone think that will be an issue?

only girl

I've been assigned to a department since Friday but haven't heard from anyone from that office yet. Is this the usual process? How long do you think I'll have to wait before I get a start date ect?

Ciao Belle

dub70 wrote: »

15weeks and still waiting for clearance

I was waiting for special clearance from end of May to end of September. Only got through clearance with PAS mid November and am starting work 7th January 2019...

dub70

Ciao Belle wrote: »

I was waiting for special clearance from end of May to end of September. Only got through clearance with PAS mid November and am starting work 7th January 2019...

There is something wrong with the whole system. No other country takes this long to vet people. Where are you being assigned?

Leela82

Ciao Belle wrote: »

I was waiting for special clearance from end of May to end of September. Only got through clearance with PAS mid November and am starting work 7th January 2019...

Have you been sent your contract yet?

Ciao Belle

Leela82 wrote: »

Have you been sent your contract yet?

No contract yet....you? Maybe I shouldnt be counting my chickens...

Ciao Belle

dub70 wrote: »

There is something wrong with the whole system. No other country takes this long to vet people. Where are you being assigned?

An Garda Siochana.

Leela82

Ciao Belle wrote: »

No contract yet....you? Maybe I shouldnt be counting my chickens...

Nope, Still haven’t been told where I’m going!!

Killester1

Thanks to all for posting on this board. I’m batch 2....Oom 362.....I’ve just received an email from clearance to contact them. I’ve no other details. At last ! 😎