Clerical Officer in the Civil Service 2021 (Nationwide)

That's great. I'm in the 90's so hopefully will hear in another few weeks. Best of luck

As of last Friday, Kildare was up to OOM 10 for interviews.

Has anyone from tipperary been offered a place yet from interview, they've called up to number 20??

Has anyone been offered Dublin posts from the competition yet? Any clue what no in order of merit they have reached?

My OH was 400 on order of merit and passed the interview so they said he kept that order.

Thanks

My OOM is top 200s and I’ve only received my clearance forms now. You’ll defo be reached as every candidate for Dublin was reached last panel.

Hi I was 16 or 17 on OOM for Westmeath but only have been offered my interview last week. Do you know how long after interviewing do you find out if you passed?

Typically, it's anywhere between 2 and 10 days. I've read on here that people were getting their results within a couple of days, but for me it was 10 days.

Best of luck!

I'm guessing Westmeath isn't moving too quickly if they are only reaching me now but interviewed you weeks ago. I'm not confident 😕 being a bit pessimistic.

Wonder how long the panels are active for once you are on them.

I was top 5 for my county so I was interviewed pretty quickly.

In the CO booklet it states "It is not envisaged that appointments will be made from this competition after 31st January 2023."

I moved from local authority to CS and my service carried over but it was not based on my salary so I took a big hit in pay. I was on pt 4 of the grade 4 salary scale (in Local authority) and they gave me pt 4 of the grade 3 salary scale (in CS) which was a lot less. They said it goes on your years of service not salary. I was able to carry my annual leave of 27 days though…

No I don’t think so. Just ask your last employee for a copy of your verification of service form and the annual leave should be in it along with your start date and pt on the scale. If it’s not just ask them to confirm what your leave entitlement was. You can then forward that to HR then and if they don’t update your leave balance send it to the union for advice. But I’d say they will update your leave, they probably just overlooked it tbh

I got mine back within 7 days. I was already in the civil service so had done garda vetting previously so maybe that was why it didn't take long and I have never lived abroad either.

From the time my garda vetting came back and I started in the new job it was around 3 weeks.

I recently went for interview with Limerick county council for the clerical officer position. I passed my interview. I have come 12th in the panel. The panel is for one year does anyone if i have much chance of being called?

It is in the civil service, but public service orgs often have different terms & conditions of employment. In particular, Councils / Local Authorities are known for having more annual leave than the civil service.

The 27 days is the annual entitlement from the local authorities which was carried over, a CO in the CS isn't entitled to that, the fact they allowed increments for grade IV service is unusual as it's not analogous to a CO but rather EO is another weird one.

Hi @Emmah82

Yeah they did ask about Microsoft Office. My interview was over a year ago now but this is what I remember from the top of my head:

Microsoft Word: They asked how often I use it, how comfortable I am with using tables and do I have any experience in using it for 'long' documents.

Microsoft Excel: They definitely did ask me about it but I can't remember what the questions were exactly. I think they asked me about my experience/how often do I use it and maybe a couple of other questions.

Microsoft Outlook: Again, asked for experience. They also asked a question around BCC - know what this is and try decipher if they're asking you about it cos this is one where you will be caught out! I only knew what answer they were looking for cos everyone had talked about it on the boards thread for the panel I was on! They asked me something like, if you were to email a customer and you wanted your manager to see it without the customer knowing, what would you do. I said I would do one of two things. First, I would send it to my manager before I send it to the customer so they can see it that way. Second option would be to BCC my manager into the email I am sending to the customer. I could tell by their faces that I had given them the answer they were looking for!

If they ask you about a particular tool that you're not sure about, I would say to you to maybe watch some YouTube clips to try and get it into your head what they're about. If you can't do this, I would be totally honest with them and say they you don't use it in your everyday working life so you are unsure but that you would be more than willing to learn more about it if you need it for the job. They would rather you be honest than you giving them waffle!!

In terms of interview tips, I actually did up a doc for a friend who did his interview for this panel and I also sent it to someone here who dm'd me, both passed the interview and my friend started his new job recently enough. I'll try and see if I can dig it out later and can send it to you privately on here.

Hi @imagusaran , thank you so much for coming back to me . great tips and I will most definitely look at a few YouTube clips to find out more about mail merge and pivot tables. if you find that document it would be gratefully received

Hi! Any chance you could send on that interview advice doc to me? Would be GREATLY appreciated if you could!!!

Hi mate is there any chance you could pass that on to me as well? Would really appreciate it!

Hi, could anyone tell me how many certified sick leave days you get when you have done 8 months of probation as CO?

Do you mind me asking where you called to interview I’m 112 for Meath for EO recruitment. Many thanks