2022 Executive Officer Civil Service

Hi,

Im looking for some guidance. I failed the situational test by a few points - has anyone ever done a recheck and know if it’s worth it?

I’m also trying to evaluate my next steps. I’m currently a CO and trying to find out if departments run many internal competitions for EO during the year, or are they rare?

I don’t know if I can wait another two years to go for these External/Internal competitions.

Any help/ guidance would be much appreciated! Thanks

Was anyone else under the impression that the e-tray wasn’t going ahead this year? I’ve heard it from a couple of people that they’ve taken it off and presumed the situational judgment part of stage one covered this part. Could be completely wrong and just a rumour?

I really hope you both are right, dreading doing the E tray again! Passed EO interview in 2018 but failed the E tray by 2 marks. Failed 2020 E tray by 8 marks 😭

I came in the top 500 in Dublin for this competition, I really hope this is my time. If there wasn’t an E tray again I would be over the moon! Don’t think it’s a fair assessment.

I hope they’re reliable! I’ve done the last few campaigns and it’s the first time it’s been included in stage 1. In 2018 and 2020 the stage 1 score consisted of verbal, numerical and the questionnaire.

The 2020 EO competition had the verbal, numerical and personality based questionnaire/psychometric testing, so I’m pretty sure the situational judgment was new to this year.

2019 had the personality questionnaire first, then numerical, verbal and e-tray together.

Hi

I doubt it as I imagine it is calculated automatically via computer . Interested too though. I failed verbal reasoning by 16 points. Sat all 3 tests in the one setting so was brain fried by time I got to the verbal& interrupted too at the end od the test 😭.

i cant wait another 2 years either .

Numerical Reasoning

Maximum Score: 800

Qualifying Score: 390

Your Score: 557

Verbal Reasoning

Maximum Score: 800

Qualifying Score: 390

Your Score: 374

Situational Judgement

Maximum Score: 800

Qualifying Score: 370

Your Score: 628

@sea_l thats a really good OOM for Dublin. I'm in the mid 500's myself. In the 2020 campaign my OOM was in the low 600s and I was called within a few months for e-tray

If I recall correctly someone currently in the civil service previously said in this thread that the intention was for the first EOs hired in this campaign to start work in September.

Does anyone know if this is still the plan or has it been delayed?

People are being interviewed this week from the 2020 campaign...so looks like they will be placed first. September seems very unrealistic for 2022 campaign people to be placed and all.

Hope people don't mind me asking this but when I was applying I was torn between selecting 2 regional counties or selecting Dublin and another county. Those who finished in the top few hundred for Dublin what roughly was your total score (verbal & situational)? I would just be interested to see how I might have faired had I selected Dublin where there is probably a lot more positions.

109 for Cork fairly disgusted after the effort I made…. Hopefully a load of EOs decide to retire in Cork over next 12 months!!!!!

i scored just under 1,200 and placed inside the top 500 for Dublin. Hope this helps!

Hi all, my OOM is 816 for interdepartmental, Dublin. What are are my chances? Will I ever get called for Stage 2? Just looking for some hope...

Don't write yourself off, it's still all to play for.

This is my first time applying so can't speak from experience on the e-tray, not sure how many people will slip down the ranks from it but I'd bet there will be a few.

Interviews are the real filter here (as with any hiring process) and you may well see yourself very highly ranked if you do reasonably well there.