NEW 2018 Assistant Principal Officer Competition

PCX

Veledan22 wrote: »

Hopefully the appointments will pick up a bit of pace again. I think 1.2 is a slightly smaller panel than 1.1, 50s on the Open was the highest OOM posted here as far as I can remember (completely open to correction though ).

There was pent-up demand when 1.1 was put in place as previous panel had been exhausted for a while. I would think the pace will be slow and steady from now.

Sy Snootles

PCX wrote: »

There was pent-up demand when 1.1 was put in place as previous panel had been exhausted for a while. I would think the pace will be slow and steady from now.

I would say there might be a lull now before a flood in September after the salary increase. People are hanging on until then to increase their pensions.

Veledan22

Does anybody know roughly how long it took for the interview results to issue for batches 1.1 and 1.2

Sy Snootles

Veledan22 wrote: »

Does anybody know roughly how long it took for the interview results to issue for batches 1.1 and 1.2

1.1 was 3 days. Although it was just before Christmas and they seemed in an awful rush to clear a backlog of vacancies..

oodles19

I received notification to book my slot for supervised testing in two weeks time for my batch just there. I know its probably somewhere back in the thread, but how long does the verbal & numerical, job simulation and e-tray normally take?

gmisk

oodles19 wrote: »

I received notification to book my slot for supervised testing in two weeks time for my batch just there. I know its probably somewhere back in the thread, but how long does the verbal & numerical, job simulation and e-tray normally take?

From memory I think it was about 4 hours....it is a slog.....bring water and a banana or something.

Mariamujer

I am low 20s on Open 1.2 but on maternity leave. My own interest is that the panels won’t move quickly!! Does anyone know when we will be placed on the other county panels? If you take the Dublin placement do you lose your chance at the other county placement selected? Did any on 1.1 have to take their position
without knowing where they are on the other county panels and give up the chance of a county position? Sorry for all the questions. Any insights welcome.

Mariamujer

Sy Snootles wrote: »

1.1 was 3 days. Although it was just before Christmas and they seemed in an awful rush to clear a backlog of vacancies..

Batch- 1.2 wait was 12 days. People interviewed later in the week had 7 days wait.

Veledan22

Mariamujer wrote: »

I am low 20s on Open 1.2 but on maternity leave. My own interest is that the panels won’t move quickly!! Does anyone know when we will be placed on the other county panels? If you take the Dublin placement do you lose your chance at the other county placement selected? Did any on 1.1 have to take their position
without knowing where they are on the other county panels and give up the chance of a county position? Sorry for all the questions. Any insights welcome.

The regional interviews are taking place at the moment along with Batch 2, so you should find out where you are on the regional panels when those results are issued in the coming weeks.

clio15

MINE WAS FROM 8 AM UNTIL almost 1 , there was an IT issue think its minimun 4 hours

Veledan22

oodles19 wrote: »

I received notification to book my slot for supervised testing in two weeks time for my batch just there. I know its probably somewhere back in the thread, but how long does the verbal & numerical, job simulation and e-tray normally take?

I had an afternoon session that ran from 1.00 to around 5.15.

I would advise being 15-20 mins early for your session though. PAS did all the registration work for mine ahead of schedule, so everyone was ready to head up for the tests at 1.00.

Max Mustermann

Only 3 days/ 6 sessions for batch 3 stage 3 supervised tests from 24th to 26th April, so it seems batch 3 is much smaller than previous batches.

Summer2019

Max Mustermann wrote: »

Only 3 days/ 6 sessions for batch 3 stage 3 supervised tests from 24th to 26th April, so it seems batch 3 is much smaller than previous batches.

Is this the batch that everyone who got up to 100 in their scores in stage 1?

Max Mustermann

Summer2019 wrote: »

Is this the batch that everyone who got up to 100 in their scores in stage 1?

Yes, from 100 to 106 in stage 1.

Starlight321

Mariamujer wrote: »

I am low 20s on Open 1.2 but on maternity leave. My own interest is that the panels won’t move quickly!! Does anyone know when we will be placed on the other county panels? If you take the Dublin placement do you lose your chance at the other county placement selected? Did any on 1.1 have to take their position
without knowing where they are on the other county panels and give up the chance of a county position? Sorry for all the questions. Any insights welcome.

As I recall from the instructions on the form, if you turn down the first offer you do not get offered your second location. For this reason i did not select Dublin and only ticked 1 regional county. Maybe i got this wrong

Mariamujer

Starlight321 wrote: »

As I recall from the instructions on the form, if you turn down the first offer you do not get offered your second location. For this reason i did not select Dublin and only ticked 1 regional county. Maybe i got this wrong

Thanks for the information. Sounds reasonable.

dee75

Starlight321 wrote: »

As I recall from the instructions on the form, if you turn down the first offer you do not get offered your second location. For this reason i did not select Dublin and only ticked 1 regional county. Maybe i got this wrong

As far as I know that's not correct.

Say you picked Clare and Galway as your 2 regional counties. And you really preferred Galway.

You are offered a role in Clare. If you accept it, then you are off the AP panel completely and won't be offered any role in Galway.

If you refuse the Clare offer, you are off the Clare panel only. You could still be offered a role in Galway if one comes up and you are next on the panel, but no guarantees of course.

Here's a screenshot from the information booklet (if I haven't done it right just Google "Assistant Principal information booklet" and you'll find it).

The_Conductor

Sy Snootles wrote: »

PAS told me if I turned down the Open, I'd get the next place on the Inter-D.

Yes- thats a separate panel- you don't get to turn down your first offer on a given panel- to await a subsequent offer.

Once upon a time they did allow it- but it was so fiendishly difficult to administer that they determined to no longer allow it.

If you turn down an offer off a panel- thats it- you're out. It doesn't preclude offers from other (associated) panels however- and you *can* be on multiple panels related to the same competition (such as a Dublin only and a regional panel- or a confined and an open panel etc).

Hope this clarifies.

Veledan22

Max Mustermann wrote: »

Only 3 days/ 6 sessions for batch 3 stage 3 supervised tests from 24th to 26th April, so it seems batch 3 is much smaller than previous batches.

They're really flying through the batches this time around!

Best of luck to everyone doing the tests.

Remind me

Veledan22 wrote: »

They're really flying through the batches this time around!

Best of luck to everyone doing the tests.

Cooommmmeeee on batch 4:D

SPHarry

They have started clearance on batch 1.2 (Dublin) - received my notification yesterday.

Veledan22

SPHarry wrote: »

They have started clearance on batch 1.2 (Dublin) - received my notification yesterday.

Congratulations

Is somewhere in the 50s still the highest OOM that we know of for the Batch 1.2 open panel?

APcomp

SPHarry wrote: »

They have started clearance on batch 1.2 (Dublin) - received my notification yesterday.

Congratulations! Is that the open stream? What number are you on the OOM?

Thanks

Mariamujer

APcomp wrote: »

Congratulations! Is that the open stream? What number are you on the OOM?

Thanks

Must be high up- I’m in low 20s and haven’t heard.

Starlight321

Thanks Dee, i must have remembered that wrongly. There is only one location I would take anyway.

dee75 wrote: »

As far as I know that's not correct.

Say you picked Clare and Galway as your 2 regional counties. And you really preferred Galway.

You are offered a role in Clare. If you accept it, then you are off the AP panel completely and won't be offered any role in Galway.

If you refuse the Clare offer, you are off the Clare panel only. You could still be offered a role in Galway if one comes up and you are next on the panel, but no guarantees of course.

Here's a screenshot from the information booklet (if I haven't done it right just Google "Assistant Principal information booklet" and you'll find it).

clio15

Could anyone tell me are there questions on every competancy or are some assessed throughout the interview by your answers to other questions ?

dee75

clio15 wrote: »

Could anyone tell me are there questions on every competancy or are some assessed throughout the interview by your answers to other questions ?

Typically no direct question on either (1) Specialist Knowledge or (2) Drive and Commitment. They tell you they are assessed throughout the interview.

Direct questions on the main 4 competencies and often several questions/variations on each!

Good luck.

Claireclucka

Anyone any thoughts on when this batch of interview results will be out 😬

clio15

Claireclucka wrote: »

Anyone any thoughts on when this batch of interview results will be out 😬

Well my interview is Monday I think that’s the last day ,probably be after Easter ?

SPHarry

APcomp wrote: »

Congratulations! Is that the open stream? What number are you on the OOM?

Thanks

Top 5 on the open panel.

Anyone who has already started - how are you finding it?