Driving testers RSA 2021

carzony

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123222760#Comment_123222760

Slim pickings for anyone outside of the organisation to get an offer so..

Wish I hadn't of bothered with the time and personal expense now.

''jobs for the boys'' it seems.

More transparency in relation to the ''contract testers'' would have been nice..

Neilw

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123223025#Comment_123223025

Agree, that’s a big let down. The whole process was not only time consuming but expensive too.

carzony

Shameful behaviour if you ask me.. if they wanted internal candidates they should have just opened it to them..

I'm Hoping anyone here does got an offer but 35 places out the of 70 are gone already.. (allegedly) by internal candidates but if that's the case it's doubtful..

Never again is all I can say...

Elite_Driver

Bit of a disaster alrite but sher what about it either way it was something to do anyway 🤣🤣

anonymous 617

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123223260#Comment_123223260

As it's a public job it has to be advertised to everyone. That's the mandate given once they looked for full time positions. Not all temporary contractors were kept on as some failed to progress past the interview stage. It costs less to keep on staff that have already been trained and working for the last year or more.

carzony

Good luck to anyone here anyway..

Boscorelli

Anyone know when the course in Cork is due to start? Looks like people aren’t getting much notice..

pandabat

I think that @anonymous 617 has provided a lot of good, key information in relation to the whole process in general at this stage. I would also take it from the fact that he/she is posting anonymously that there's probably some degree of confidentiality required in the recruitment process at this point.

On the basis of his/her info, the Cork course will likely be starting this month. The RSA are almost certainly going to have given candidates at least a month's notice as that what's most people who are already in employment will need. On that basis, it would follow that if you haven't heard anything about the Dublin/Cork courses by now then you will likely not be part of the first cohort of recruits. That doesn't mean that there won't be another round of recruitment later on as there may be retirements/transfers/drop-outs from training/etc so don't completely lose hope but I don't think that I'd hold my breath at this point either.

As has been well outlined from the beginning, Dublin and Cork will be the focus of this panel. These are the quick-win/low-hanging-fruit areas where they can easily train many candidates in one, local training centre. These areas are also where the largest waiting lists are and so the the biggest reductions in overall numbers can be made here.

I'd imagine, where vacancies exist in other regional locations, that they'll do these as efficiently as they can afterwards, which might perhaps mean candidates from a few separate counties going to a central training point. That's just me guessing but it would seem to be the most effective way to do it.

The 35 contractors being taken on will have skewed the odds badly for external candidates but, as already said above, this is not at all uncommon for many public sector vacancies. In fact, in some public sector roles, it may already have been effectively decided to give the role to an internal candidate but they still need to go through the whole openly advertised process. That's going to be the disappointing part for most people and, indeed, I might not have considered throwing my own hat in the ring at the start if I'd known that my chances were going to be effectively cut in half. I understand why they would do this though as they can just redeploy these contractors almost straight away. Raw recruits will need 7 weeks of training and then some bedding in. Doesn't necessarily make it easier to swallow but ... 🤷🏻‍♂️

Alas I don't think there's a whole lot else to say at this point. Good luck in the role to those who got the call and hopefully a few others will get in during the lifetime of the panel.