Garda Recruitment 2018 (Stage 2)

arainagusime

Carles Puyol wrote: »

Did the career preparation course and I have to say I didn't find it half as good as the first one. That being said it was definitely beneficial, the report writing is something that a lot of people could fall down on. It'd be worth practicing some form of note-taking before you do stage 2.

I am with you on this, I feel that it was too short. The stage 1 course was twice as long and more thorough. I felt that they should have given us at least 5 report writing exercises. Or at the very least, went over the stage 1 material more thoroughly. Everything just felt glossed over and I honestly didn't feel I got my money's worth. I am still glad I went as there didn't seem to be an alternative.

Gadaves

Anybody here doing stage 2 tomorrowat11:30.

RabbitHeart18

Gadaves wrote: »

Anybody here doing stage 2 tomorrowat11:30.

yep! Getting it over and done with early on so I don't have time to be worrying! Felt pretty confident up to today, starting to get nervous now.

Gadaves

RabbitHeart18 wrote: »

yep! Getting it over and done with early on so I don't have time to be worrying! Felt pretty confident up to today, starting to get nervous now.

Ya same here, hopefully all will go well anyway.

KaWinNee

We have to bring a copy of our confirmation of booking. How did people do this, print screen and print?

Gadaves

KaWinNee wrote: »

We have to bring a copy of our confirmation of booking. How did people do this, print screen and print?

I'll just be bringing a screen copy

jojomama

Very best of luck to everyone over the coming days and I will hopefully be joining a good lot of you on the other side for stage 3. I dare to dream.

Catepillar1994

I wasn't fully gone on the way career services did their report.

The layout is completely different what has been drilled in to my head since college.

KaWinNee

Catepillar1994 wrote: »

I wasn't fully gone on the way career services did their report.

The layout is completely different what has been drilled in to my head since college.

Can you elaborate on that?

The way they did it vs college way ?

Elliot192

Catepillar1994 wrote: »

I wasn't fully gone on the way career services did their report.

The layout is completely different what has been drilled in to my head since college.

It's a police report though not an academic one.

I can't speak for the career service layout or the type of reports you did in college but you have a limited amount of time to write a summary of the events in the video. There's no room or requirement for analysis/recommendations.

Check out the Columbus Ohio Police Dept Study Guide.

Carles Puyol

The instructor at the course that I was at made sure to clarify that the report writing required in the test is very different to an actual Garda report. Remember, they're preparing us for Stage 2, not to be a Garda.

I've mine myself on Thursday, 11:30. Wanted to get it done early but regretting it a bit now as I haven't had much time to prepare.
Anyone know for sure if our number (OOM) can rise and fall based on Stage 2? Career services fellow wasn't too sure but reckoned it couldn't.

Gadaves

Carles Puyol wrote: »

The instructor at the course that I was at made sure to clarify that the report writing required in the test is very different to an actual Garda report. Remember, they're preparing us for Stage 2, not to be a Garda.

I've mine myself on Thursday, 11:30. Wanted to get it done early but regretting it a bit now as I haven't had much time to prepare.
Anyone know for sure if our number (OOM) can rise and fall based on Stage 2? Career services fellow wasn't too sure but reckoned it couldn't.

I think the OOM can change afaik but not 100%

foam

Gadaves wrote: »

I think the OOM can change afaik but not 100%

Your OOM can change at each stage until stage 3. The OOM you receive after Stage 3 is the your OOM going forward for every other stage.

P1nkr0ses

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vardy98

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Colour will be grand.

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job seeker

P1nkr0ses wrote: »

So who has used Career Services for Report Writing practise? The witnesses speak very fast in their videos. I practised with the Colombus Police Department video on Youtube and that was much slower. I'm worried about the pace. I can barely write fast enough to keep up. Like, in real life you can ask a person to repeat their address and phone number so I don't know why the pace has to be so damn fast!

Not used either yet. Something that I'm wondering though. That is, by practicing the C.P.D video, do you think that you're shooting yourself in the foot? Basically, what I'm trying to say is, are you not better off just practicing the career services exercise only, as that's the one that has too be passed???

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Carles Puyol

Had my part 2 earlier today, we had to sign confidentiality form first so I'm bound a bit by what I can say.
I was definitely happy overall though, I thought the logical reasoning was tougher than part 1 but still very manageable. The verbal reasoning had mostly the same passages as part 1 but I think they were different questions. Job scenarios were fine as well but the report writing was definitely my weakest part of today. The audio quality was horrendous and the first witness spoke so bloody fast and had a Dub accent. But it was fine, felt like I got most of the important info down.
The talk from the guard was interesting too, spoke about a lot of different things and stayed after to answer any questions.

Best of luck to all ye yet to do it. I felt there was less pressure as well today, but maybe that was just me. Results out in about 4 weeks or so we were told.

Marshall987

Had mine the same time as yours today, and had the same findings as you, the logical was definitely harder and that was my strongest part on stage one.
I struggled to understand the audio in the video, it was especially bad when the victim spoke.
Hopefully we done more than enough to get through.

Carles Puyol wrote: »

Had my part 2 earlier today, we had to sign confidentiality form first so I'm bound a bit by what I can say.
I was definitely happy overall though, I thought the logical reasoning was tougher than part 1 but still very manageable. The verbal reasoning had mostly the same passages as part 1 but I think they were different questions. Job scenarios were fine as well but the report writing was definitely my weakest part of today. The audio quality was horrendous and the first witness spoke so bloody fast and had a Dub accent. But it was fine, felt like I got most of the important info down.
The talk from the guard was interesting too, spoke about a lot of different things and stayed after to answer any questions.

Best of luck to all ye yet to do it. I felt there was less pressure as well today, but maybe that was just me. Results out in about 4 weeks or so we were told.

S_e_a_n

Hi All,

Just on the back of this can someone help out with below, thanks.

So just awaiting to complete my stage 2 App test but the Q I have is, going on the dates that the stages have been going, every 4/5 weeks Online app then stage 1 and stage 2 now coming, my Q is, when will the interview be? I'm guessing Sept maybe around the 10th ish.

Bit of an issue for me as I planned and paid in full a trip away since last year before Crimbo.
If i got through stage 2 and did get an interview and lets say it was the 15th there about's, could I get the date changed to a later one -_-'

If not>>>> No Holliers for me!

Carles Puyol

Marshall987 wrote: »

Had mine the same time as yours today, and had the same findings as you, the logical was definitely harder and that was my strongest part on stage one.
I struggled to understand the audio in the video, it was especially bad when the victim spoke.
Hopefully we done more than enough to get through.

Yea, I almost felt like complaining about the audio but not much point I suppose. It would just be a bit unfair if the issue is resolved for the other groups but still, felt like I did enough. Hopefully we'll both be called sooner rather than later!

Vital Work

S_e_a_n wrote: »

Hi All,

Just on the back of this can someone help out with below, thanks.

So just awaiting to complete my stage 2 App test but the Q I have is, going on the dates that the stages have been going, every 4/5 weeks Online app then stage 1 and stage 2 now coming, my Q is, when will the interview be? I'm guessing Sept maybe around the 10th ish.

Bit of an issue for me as I planned and paid in full a trip away since last year before Crimbo.
If i got through stage 2 and did get an interview and lets say it was the 15th there about's, could I get the date changed to a later one -_-'

If not>>>> No Holliers for me!

We were told today that the interviews would start on the 17th, not sure if this helps you!

I'm not sure about changing the date of an interview, however.

job seeker

P1nkr0ses wrote: »

Well I don't think the C.P.D video is useful as it's too slow and the information is repeated. However, the PDF guide seems like it's useful. But if you plan on doing the online Career Services course then I'd probably stick with that. I spent most of yesterday doing it and feel much more confident now. Speed and short hand notes are vital. I'm heading in to the exam at 1.45pm today!

I get you. They're definitely some valid points you made. Hope it went well for ye all today. 😊

job seeker

S_e_a_n wrote: »

Hi All,

Just on the back of this can someone help out with below, thanks.

So just awaiting to complete my stage 2 App test but the Q I have is, going on the dates that the stages have been going, every 4/5 weeks Online app then stage 1 and stage 2 now coming, my Q is, when will the interview be? I'm guessing Sept maybe around the 10th ish.

Bit of an issue for me as I planned and paid in full a trip away since last year before Crimbo.
If i got through stage 2 and did get an interview and lets say it was the 15th there about's, could I get the date changed to a later one -_-'

If not>>>> No Holliers for me!

I'd definitely call the public appointments office. I'd assume that this is a common enough occurrence. Hope you get sorted.

originalhobo

Anyone have an idea how long we'll be waiting to get results back from stage 2?

P1nkr0ses

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userunkown

Anyone have any idea either from a previous campaign or heard from doing stage 2 this month; how many have theybtaken through of the first 900?;
How long till they have all completed stage 2?;
And when will they start calling from others how have passed and are outside the 900?

5i6blrtngojxwf

userunkown wrote: »

Anyone have any idea either from a previous campaign or heard from doing stage 2 this month; how many have theybtaken through of the first 900?;
How long till they have all completed stage 2?;
And when will they start calling from others how have passed and are outside the 900?

They’re taking all in <900 OOM and I think the last test for the first 900 is this Friday? Someone might confirm that but just basing that on the available appointment dates. No idea when the next group are going through but will hardly be long.

S_e_a_n

Yeah this Friday last 900 OOM (First Batch) tests are being done, I pushed the date out for as long as i could (Friday 11:30 I think for first test) to try get some more prep work done for it. Grand one minute, sweating it the next!!

userunkown

So has anyone heard when the rest of us eejets might get called? Say the next 500 or 900...?

Gadaves

userunkown wrote: »

So has anyone heard when the rest of us eejets might get called? Say the next 500 or 900...?

No idea, but we're were told stage 2 results would be early September and interviews not long after that.

Crowlers

Best of look to everyone in this campaign if ye need any help feel free to ask I’m just waiting on a physical to be done so if I can help In anyway just ask. I had loads of questions throughout the whole process

originalhobo

Crowlers wrote: »

Best of look to everyone in this campaign if ye need any help feel free to ask I’m just waiting on a physical to be done so if I can help In anyway just ask. I had loads of questions throughout the whole process

any tips in general for the interview? anything you'd do differently if you had to do it again?

Job456

I did a prep course for stage 2 and I asked them when the second batch would be called and he said probably September

peaches18

Can anyone from previous campaigns tell me how much time can we be expected to have between stage 2 - 3? Thank you

Gadaves

peaches18 wrote: »

Can anyone from previous campaigns tell me how much time can we be expected to have between stage 2 - 3? Thank you

I did stage 2 last week and they said interviews for low OOM will be September

peaches18

Gadaves wrote: »

I did stage 2 last week and they said interviews for low OOM will be September

Oh jeenie that’s so soon, I hope we get a good 4 weeks cuz I need that to prepare like, what prep are you going to do? I have my stage 2 on Friday.

vardy98

I did stage 2 last week and they said interviews for low OOM will be September[/quote]

Did they say how low of a oom will be called first? Like top 200 or somthing?

User2206

Just got an invitation to book my stage 2... my OOM is over 900!

stephenjmcd

1777 and just got an invite for stage 2

mac1ntosh

stephenjmcd wrote: »

1777 and just got an invite for stage 2

Same!

stephenjmcd

Was it not said before that they would work their way through the list. Didn't think I'd get a date quite this soon though

job seeker

stephenjmcd wrote: »

1777 and just got an invite for stage 2

So did I. I’m oom low 2000.

stephenjmcd

I'm more than likely going to pull out now and concentrate on whenever the next drive might be. Even if I got through this stage id be nowhere near passing the medical on the physical fitness grounds.

I kind of gave up hope after the OOM score so I didn't start preparing. It's my dream job so head down now for the next one. Best of luck everyone

Elliot192

stephenjmcd wrote: »

I'm more than likely going to pull out now and concentrate on whenever the next drive might be. Even if I got through this stage id be nowhere near passing the medical on the physical fitness grounds.

I kind of gave up hope after the OOM score so I didn't start preparing. It's my dream job so head down now for the next one. Best of luck everyone

Don't pull out. The experience will stand to you for next time around plus it could be months and months and months before you get a medical. You have stage 2 and an interview to go yet.

Could possibly even talk to PAS about deferring your interview if you made it that far.

When you say passing the medical on physical fitness grounds do you mean weight or injury or illness? There are medical deferrals for various reasons too.

If it really is your dream job take the experience while it's going. Better to get the experience than to fork out for a course. Treat it like a practice run if you have to but I'd say go for it.

FIVE.0

stephenjmcd wrote: »

I'm more than likely going to pull out now and concentrate on whenever the next drive might be. Even if I got through this stage id be nowhere near passing the medical on the physical fitness grounds.

I kind of gave up hope after the OOM score so I didn't start preparing. It's my dream job so head down now for the next one. Best of luck everyone

I waited 11 months from the date I applied to my fitness date. A lot can be achieved in 11 months. You wouldn't be showing great determination to drop out now if it was your dream job. Hope you don't mind me saying.

Elliot192

Elliot192 wrote: »

Don't pull out. The experience will stand to you for next time around plus it could be months and months and months before you get a medical. You have stage 2 and an interview to go yet.

Could possibly even talk to PAS about deferring your interview if you made it that far.

When you say passing the medical on physical fitness grounds do you mean weight or injury or illness? There are medical deferrals for various reasons too.

If it really is your dream job take the experience while it's going. Better to get the experience than to fork out for a course. Treat it like a practice run if you have to but I'd say go for it.

Edited to say you also have to include on your Form B what campaigns you entered previously and what stage you got to. I can imagine dropping out being a topic that might come up at your sergeant/super interview. Resilience has also been a common interview competency. Just go for it. You literally have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Best of luck with whatever you decide!

stephenjmcd

Elliot192 wrote: »

Don't pull out. The experience will stand to you for next time around plus it could be months and months and months before you get a medical. You have stage 2 and an interview to go yet.

Could possibly even talk to PAS about deferring your interview if you made it that far.

When you say passing the medical on physical fitness grounds do you mean weight or injury or illness? There are medical deferrals for various reasons too.

If it really is your dream job take the experience while it's going. Better to get the experience than to fork out for a course. Treat it like a practice run if you have to but I'd say go for it.

Cheers for the words. Weight grounds and if the medical / fitness test was in say 3 months time I wouldn't be ready. If it was a good while away then no doubt head down I could probably do it. Thanks for your words going to book it now. Probably just the nerves talking. Its all I ever wanted to do

stephenjmcd

FIVE.0 wrote: »

I waited 11 months from the date I applied to my fitness date. A lot can be achieved in 11 months. You wouldn't be showing great determination to drop out now if it was your dream job. Hope you don't mind me saying.

Well entitled to your view. I wouldn't have thought 11 months. 11 months as you said anything is possible. I was thinking it would be within the next 2 or 3 months maybe. It's all I've wanted to do for years. Going to book it now