New 2021 Assistant Principal in the Civil Service

It seems like I am back in the game after receiving additional 11 points on the first question. Invitations for Stage 3 (final interview) to issue in Q1 2022. Any advice on what to expect during the strategic exercise/presentation from those who have completed it is welcome.

Hi all, so my result was upgraded and I’m through 😊. I haven’t been through this process before and my overall score is around 150-155 now. Should I expect to hear about interview in January or where are they with the overall process from batch one? Seems like they went The QA route on this and reviewed those in the whole batch who didn’t get through.

No my result remained the same, I don't have an issue with that, it's the process I question, as I said already I have a long CS career and to be honest I can't say I see the cream rising to top, it's more about ability to play the game.

I maybe wrong and good luck to all candidates but I see very little correlation between PAS tests and the actual AP day to day role.

Anyway that's my rant over hohoho 😄 Happy Christmas, best wishes to all, and keep the threads going, they provide good bits of information for all interested

What exactly is different about compared to your private sector job or whats not to like about it. Im in the private sector now and have passed the first stage of AP panel, just waiting on next stage call up.

When PAS reaches out to you, you're given all of the information you need to complete the strategic analysis. If you read it carefully, they tell you what you need to do on each slide and in the report. All of the topics are different, so I don't think there's any real point in prepping before you have your topic. Part of being an AP is being able to take in a large amount of information and distill it into the key points, so the strategic analysis shouldn't be too difficult. You just need to choose your topic, create a structure and answer the prompt.

you'll certainly be called for the next stage, you should hear sometime in January

Hi all - sorry to be annoying - but when do you all think there will be a new competition announced for AP? in 2022?

For the sake of sharing timelines once you pass your final interview/presentation. My Garda clearance took 4-5 business days and the entire clearance process took about 2 weeks excluding the holidays. I was told we should hear about placements next week.

Does anyone have any idea when the next batch might be called forward to interview stage?

When I asked PAS in mid-November about the next round of Stage 3 interviews, they said that they were expected in late January/early February. Hopefully we'll hear something soon!

They must have been listening out for my hope! Got an interview invitation for early February.

Got mine for end of January, not that much time to prep

Any indication of what score they're at for this round of interviews?