2022 Executive Officer Civil Service

If you are successful at interview you will get a new order of merit for both streams. There is one interview for both streams.

Doesn't appear to be much movement for interviews for the smaller counties ☹️ in it for the long haul ☹️

Got the word, I'm gonna be in the Dept of Justice. Was in the open stream in Dublin in the 70s

Congrats! You happy with that Dept? Did you express any preference of Dept? How was your interview, anything like some of the horror stories from some other users?

I am 250's in Dublin open and have interview next week.

Panels are random

Hopefully Justice. As far as i'm aware there is talk of staff in the Guards eventually working directly for An Garda Siochana and not the civil service.

I applied for PAS EO Competition when it opened & also applied for Revenue Administration Officer AO (Audit & Compliance) comp in August. I got OOM for EO comp & have not heard anything since (I'm outside Dublin!). However last week I got an email to say my Revenue AO application had been shortlisted & I have been called for online interview this coming week! According to previous threads it seems most EO's get promoted to AO & this is how most AO's are actually appointed. I am thinking perhaps this may be contributing to the delay with the EO comp interviews... I am just speculating but thinking if perhaps they will promote a load of existing EO's to AO in Revenue & then they can interview & replace these EO's with new candidates from the EO comp..Just a thought! PS.. Any interview tips for AO comp would be GREATLY appreciated! 🤔🤞

I was at a meeting recently where we were told our branch are getting new EOs in the new year. There is at least 10 vacancies.

Applying for an EO competition through PAS and an AO, Audit and Compliance competition with Revenue will have absolutely no effect on each other. The AO competition, although advertised via Public Jobs, will be run by Revenue. Revenue and PAS don't share competition details, so one won't be aware of your application with the other. A lot of EOs are successful in AO competitions, which are generally open competitions, but to say that most EOs are promoted to AOs is untrue. There are way more EOs in the civil service than AOs. In fact, AO is probably the grade with the lowest percentage of staff overall in the civil service.

Your assumption is correct, but its best for everyone not to reveal department on social media, unless PR is your job..

That's great I'm glad you had a good experience! (Certainly made me feel better after reading some of the horror stories earlier in the thread)

Fingers crossed for you.

I had my interview yesterday and can echo the comments above, the board were really nice and made me feel at ease. I did start running out of time as I was talking about complicated situations, hopefully it doesn't go against me.

They said I'd hear back in 2-3 weeks.

Best of luck to all

There is 6 competencies listed, the first 4 are the main ones are people management, analysis and decision making, delivery of results and interpersonal and communication skills. The last 2 are specialist knowledge, expertise and self development, & drive and commitment to public service values, they don't really ask for a specific competency for these and wrap them up together, just a few questions about the public service values and if you have plans for future education etc.

Hate to be that guy but, we aren't meant to reveal anything about the questions asked etc... there were a few warnings about this throughout the process and you never know if someone in PAS is reading this thread!