Senior Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Specialist in Civil Service

deniseq

edenbridge146 wrote: »

Hi folks - have an interview on Monday for the Transformation and Business Stream
Any advice - first interview in PAS

Snap, mine is Tuesday. From speaking to friend at AP level, it is really about nailing the competency examples and making them relevant to the duties and spec on the info form. I am finding it difficult to match each one as it's quite all encompassing PM, BA duties. etc. Anyway good luck with it and try if you can to have a practice interview.

westmeath11

HI, did anyone do the interdepartmental interview in Senior Information and Communications Technology Specialist in the Civil Service (Interdepartmental) ?

emermc

I did the business transformation interview over two weeks ago now. Has anyone heard anything from PAS? It is a bit unfair at this stage to keep one waiting this long to hear.

TestLink

How many selection stages are there for this role? Just interview?

emermc

application form & then interview.

emermc

Just got word, interviews still ongoing so results out week of Nov 18th.

dimension_9200

Have interview for the 11th of December for Dublin role Senior ICT Specialist. "Candidates will receive the board members list and the keys skill areas assessed prior to the commencement of the interview stage."

For anyone that has completed this stage any tips?

tombom112

Did the software, the normal HR stuff, a lot of question how you would handle conflict type questions, what if you asked someone to do something and they didn't do it or fobbed you off, all that kind of thing. (remember to hit with something you did and things turn out great because of your exceptional communication and listening skills etc)



Technical questions as well so I was asked things like whats a promise in regards to Javascript etc, simple enough stuff really but when you havn't taught about it much and trying to remember stuff when you don't bother remembering because google helps out, and VS code autocompletes etc



If doing it again I would look at youtube for interview questions on Javascript, C# etc or whatever you put down on the application.


I would do this as well for the HR questions and give them examples that correlate with the competences in the job spec.


Good Luck

westmeath11

dimension_9200 wrote: »

Have interview for the 11th of December for Dublin role Senior ICT Specialist. "Candidates will receive the board members list and the keys skill areas assessed prior to the commencement of the interview stage."

For anyone that has completed this stage any tips?

They love the STAR approach to answers, its very big in the civil service

edenbridge146

How did people find the interview for the Business Development Stream ?

I'm still not sure how i did ?

Is there many being interviewed for this position or how many positions are available ?

emermc

Edenbridge146: I thought I did ok in the interview, definitely better than the interview I did for the software development stream (which I didn't get). I'm on tenterhooks waiting to hear one way or another. The longer it goes on the more unsure I am. The waiting is terrible.

emermc

I just got the results of my interview & I got placed for Dublin. Anyone else get their results? Mine was an open competition. I'm delighted.

Rdwrer

Congrats. Got placed just outside the top 10 for Dublin. Delighted, after making a balls of the interD interview and presentation.

Staplor

Got placed for Dublin, how far the pecking order do these things tend to go?

emermc

Well done. I'm on the business transformation stream. Are you both on the same stream? Is it the Open competition for both of you? Or interdepartmental? I think they usually place 2/3 of the vacancies from the interdepartmental panel & 1/3 from the open.

emermc

Not sure how long it will all take or how many vacancies but its a good feeling to have got through the interview

rostalof

emermc wrote: »

Well done. I'm on the business transformation stream. Are you both on the same stream? Is it the Open competition for both of you? Or interdepartmental? I think they usually place 2/3 of the vacancies from the interdepartmental panel & 1/3 from the open.

There was an Interdepartmental Senior ICT Specialist competition?

Rdwrer

emermc wrote: »

Well done. I'm on the business transformation stream. Are you both on the same stream? Is it the Open competition for both of you? Or interdepartmental? I think they usually place 2/3 of the vacancies from the interdepartmental panel & 1/3 from the open.

I'm on the business transformation stream too. I thought this competition was all open. It was the general interdepartmental a few months ago that I missed out on.

I don't know the ratio of open to interd placing, but if you are in the top 10 or 20, I'd say you'd be called within weeks.

emermc

As far as I am aware there has been a senior interdepartmental ICT campaign going on as well.

TestLink

I contacted publicjobs and was told that it would be probably 3rd week of December, result would be out.

rostalof

emermc wrote: »

As far as I am aware there has been an senior interdepartmental ICT campaign going on as well.

Not that I know of. Maybe an internal HEO ICT competition in your department but no InderD HEO ICT. There's a standard HEO interdepartmental running at the minute though.

Rdwrer

TestLink wrote: »

I contacted publicjobs and was told that it would be probably 3rd week of December, result would be out.

What results did they say will be out? Are there streams that haven't got the results yet?

TestLink

I was for Infra Support. Not for SW or Project Management.

Staplor

My results last week were for business change, no word since. How does it work is it one department takes next on the list or might you get a choice of department?

Rdwrer

You definitely won't get a choice of department. It doesn't work like that. PAS will assign people to each department where HEOs are needed. Or if you are already a civil servant, your HR team can request that you stay within the same organisation, but there's no guarantee that you'll be kept.

I presume if the infrastructure stream results won't be announced for another couple of weeks, then we won't find out until after Christmas where we will be placed.

dimension_9200

Just got a message saying I have been placed 9th in the Dublin Panel for Infrastructure, Networking, Operations and Cyber Security this was for the reserve panel. Does anyone know if they exhaust the first panel first then utilize the reserve panel?

Rdwrer

Pretty sure the first panels are long gone. I'm on the reserve panel for Business Transformation stream and was told today where I'm going. If you're 9th you should find out just after Christmas where you're going. Congrats by the way.

TestLink

Rdwrer wrote: »

Pretty sure the first panels are long gone. I'm on the reserve panel for Business Transformation stream and was told today where I'm going.

Have you had previous Project Management experience? If Yes, how many years? PMP or PRINCE2?

Just curious...

Rdwrer

Yes, I'm a project manager in my current role and in my previous role. Around 3 years total, plus over 6 years managing teams of up to 20 people. I have a One Learning project management course done but very basic, not PMP or Prince.

emermc

Rdwrer wrote: »

Pretty sure the first panels are long gone. I'm on the reserve panel for Business Transformation stream and was told today where I'm going. If you're 9th you should find out just after Christmas where you're going. Congrats by the way.

Where are you being placed? Have they contacted your references yet? I asked to stay in DEASP. I sent in my references last Friday.