Interdepartmental Higher Executive Officer 2020 - (Serving Civil Servants ONLY)

Buckfast W

Kenevil wrote:

Look up the HEO wheel thing on the PAS website. They are the points you have to hit. See where you can incorporate them into your examples.

I meant to say earlier thanks for this.

Does anyone know what these interviews look like? I presume you finish one question and when you're ready you start the next one that they don't just count down by themselves....

Brera

Buckfast W wrote: »

I meant to say earlier thanks for this.

Does anyone know what these interviews look like? I presume you finish one question and when you're ready you start the next one that they don't just count down by themselves....

They used a similar system for the recent AP competition. It counts down and then gives a brief period to gather your thoughts before your move onto the next one.

There is a lot of useful information in that thread to check out

RC01

Brera wrote: »

They used a similar system for the recent AP competition. It counts down and then gives a brief period to gather your thoughts before your move onto the next one.

There is a lot of useful information in that thread to check out

Thank you, do you mind me asking which AP thread this useful info is on?

Brera

RC01 wrote: »

Thank you, do you mind me asking which AP thread this useful info is on?

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//showthread.php?t=2058059480

RC01

Brera wrote: »

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//showthread.php?t=2058059480

Thank you 👍

Galwaygirl64

Has anyone heard anything about regional positions?

eroc79

Galwaygirl64 wrote: »

Has anyone heard anything about regional positions?

The result email said they would be starting with Dublin I think their video interviews only started yesterday.
It will probably be another while before the rest of us begin to hear anything

The_Conductor

Haven't heard anything about Kildare or Sligo yet.

redmgar

Do you think around 2.20 minutes for each competency would suffice

ms.crackerz

For anyone who is doing the video questioning, are you basing your answers on any experience including work outside of the service or sticking to civil service related examples ?

Buckfast W

ms.crackerz wrote:

For anyone who is doing the video questioning, are you basing your answers on any experience including work outside of the service or sticking to civil service related examples ?

I'm basing my answers around the civil service and work in my team/section.

keepkeyyellow

Can you do the practice before the interview ? As in it I click into get started and go to practice I wont be forced to complete it?

Buckfast W

Is anyone else having problems with this Sonru Portal??? I can log in, do all the checks everything is good to go, I try and do a practice I interview and it crashes and tell me I've no internet connection even though it's full strength.

Talk about adding to the stress

Kenevil

Buckfast W wrote: »

Is anyone else having problems with this Sonru Portal??? I can log in, do all the checks everything is good to go, I try and do a practice I interview and it crashes and tell me I've no internet connection even though it's full strength.

Talk about adding to the stress

I haven't even downloaded it yet.... or started working on my examples.... using what i put on my form and i know pretty well just need to beef it up a bit.

Dermotcrabs

Are people answering the questions for the video interview with the same examples from the application form they originally submitted or are they introducing new examples per competency?

Kenevil

Dermotcrabs wrote: »

Are people answering the questions for the video interview with the same examples from the application form they originally submitted or are they introducing new examples per competency?

I'm using the same examples.

Uncle Pierre

Dermotcrabs wrote: »

Are people answering the questions for the video interview with the same examples from the application form they originally submitted or are they introducing new examples per competency?

Have wondered about this myself. Have spent most of the past two months on a project which would make a better and obviously more recent example for one of the competencies than the one I put down on the application form. Presume it would be okay in theory anyway to talk about something new, rather than what you wrote about first?

billyhead

You should always have a second example ready.

Uncle Pierre

Yeah. But if you've got three minutes to talk about a competency, in a one-way video interview....do they expect you to talk mainly about the example from the application form, or it is acceptable to throw what they might see as a curveball, by talking either mainly or completely about something different instead?

Samjd

I would prepare your best answer possible to the question asked, keeping in mind the competencies, regardless of what you put in your form. I presume there is no mention of your form in the question....

Ahshurlookit

You can use whatever example you want. The person judging your video interview won't have seen your application form, your competency will be judged solely on what you say in those 3 minutes so use your best example.

redmgar

It says in the form that they will have your application form for reference, but they will base their score solely on the video.

Kenevil

How the heck are you supposed to condense your whole career down to a min and a half.....

Buckfast W

Kenevil wrote:

How the heck are you supposed to condense your whole career down to a min and a half.....

Very quickly :-)

neevobeevo

Has anyone done their video interview yet and if so any advice on reading from script, do you think they would fail you for that if it is delivered well and competency examples are good?

Buckfast W

neevobeevo wrote:

Has anyone done their video interview yet and if so any advice on reading from script, do you think they would fail you for that if it is delivered well and competency examples are good?

I went with a script for that reason. I decided that I'd try and hit the competencies from a script without forgetting something or tripping over myself. I guess time will tell if I made the right decision......

neevobeevo

Buckfast W wrote: »

I went with a script for that reason. I decided that I'd try and hit the competencies from a script without forgetting something or tripping over myself. I guess time will tell if I made the right decision......

Thanks for that Buckfast, think I'll be doing the same as would be sure to forget something important or worse still go completely blank!

Kenevil

Just finished mine. Pretty obvious i was reading but its done time will tell.

Lemon drop

Same, just finished and it’s very obvious I was looking elsewhere for alot of the time. I actually knew my competencies well, so there was no need to even have paperwork beside me, it was a hindrance. The time went so quickly and I didn’t get a chance to finish one of examples...... too busy looking at my pages �� Lesson learned and it was good practice.

Hippo

Just about to record mine this evening and I notice that in the familiarisation material it states 'It is strongly advised not to read verbatim from a pre-prepared script...'

Guess I'll be spending a bit longer learning it off now..