Garda Recruitment 2022/2023

I'm doing GardaIP. I reckon I'll be called soon cos I placed in 300's. I'm finding the course material very good so far

Anyone do stage 2 yet?

Not to put a negative spin on it but. 97 Garda suspended atm. In 2015 it was 7, and they would have actually done something serious to warrant it. Says it all there. Destroyed from within.

I see your point, but 97 seems a lot. Not to mention the member in Limerick that might be sacked because he put on the blue lights….

Yeah but considering only two hundred odd have sat it I imagine that was always going to be the case. If they're only calling 200 hundred at a time and a high amount of that number are failing it would be a fairly prolonged process to get however many hundred they need.

I found it grand as well for what it's worth. Certainly much easier than the previous stage and I think most people will be fine with it so no need to worry.

Yeah you're grand it was just the one

Okay. Thanks a mill 😊

I'd echo what others have said really, it is a fast conversation but as long as you get the key details down you should be alright piecing the report together.

Did anyone have issues with the timer? When the video stopped playing 10 mins had lapsed for me.

Well done everyone that has done it so far :)

Yeah you’ll have a few days yo do it, 3 days I think. Like stage 1

Are you guys training for the fitness tests?

That’s really good going! I haven’t tried the beep test yet but had recently completed a C25K program and hurt my ankle at the very end 🥴 . Just yesterday made it to 32 sit ups in one min. It was the first time I completed them properly. So happy to see some progress. I still have work to do on the push ups!

Does anybody know about the eyesight test as part of the medical? Can that be failed if you need to wear glasses?

They will conduct and eye test at the medical stage. They request that glasses are taken off one hour before you take the test.

Delighted to have found this thread! So hard to get info online etc!

Currently 903 oom after stage 1- anyone else similar?

Thinking Il be waiting a good while myself. I'm 2897. The campaign is to last 18 months.....a good opportunity to add some more volunteering to the cv😏

I'm about 290 oom so expecting to be in the next batch called. At least then we should have some idea of how long they are giving between batches.

I only learned today that 224 is not representative of people or panel etc , it’s those who ranked scores within that range so it was most likely a few hundred people sitting the stage two, not 224, I completely misunderstood now to interpret the results of a psychometric (thanks google ) !! Tell me I am not the only one ??

I'm not sure what you mean to be honest. Here is order of merit described by public jobs themselves.

True, very possible people would get same scores on things. Would certainly mean a few extra people being called up each time if true.

As far as I understand, each persons OOM is their individual rank. For example someone who’s OOM is 20, they are in 20th place. Considering some people on this thread are in the 2000’s, it would make most sense.

See in previous campaigns they took the first 1000 to stage 2 at the same time, this year is a strange one that they only took up to 224. I personally think and this is just my own idea, but I think the reason they took just 224 now is because they probably have a back log from the lockdowns to clear too, and they just need so many from the first 224 to fill that class. But thats just my own thinking. But as for the order of merit, i’m pretty sure the number everyone got is specific to them. Thats why theres people in this thread with numbers as high as 3,000. Maybe someone in here will clear it up for us anyway who has a better understanding of it

then we have a serious problem.. because myself and another member on here have the exact same order of merit number 😳😳 which is why I questioned this in the first place 😂

Get onto career services and ask them how

the order of merit works and if two candidates can have the same number, they’re efficient so will be able to advise on Monday.