Interdepartmental HEO

Hi All - does anyone know how long it takes from passing the interview to being assigned? TIA 😊

Brilliant, thank you so much! The extra funds would be very nice before Christmas 🙂

Best of luck with the interview, fingers crossed for you 👍🏻

Congratulations to all that got placed. I'm still in shock I got placed and in the top 20!

Hi, ideally have an example for each competency prepared using the STAR method. However, you will see from previous posts here that the interview panel fire questions out and cut accross when you are answering, this is not necessarily a bad thing as it is them putting you in the right direction, but it does mean that you wont always be able to fully answer using the STAR method as you wont have time to.

Also for yourself and anyone else going for interview be sure to have a very solid Leadership example prepared as afew people from my department failed on this competency, and it was also mentioned in previous threads.

I was just wondering if anyone who has already been successful for Dublin would give an indication of what Department they were placed in, or does anybody have any information about where the next round of offers for Dublin may be for? Thanks

Wonder if anyone doing interviews for Cork next week? Or are they starting soo?

Does anyone know, how many were interviewed for Westmeath.?

Judging from these threads and my colleagues that were interviewed, it seems to be run in 2 week batches. Realistically would only interview appropriately 5 candidates a day when think about it time wise

If we passed the interview for Dublin, will we have to re-interview for our other chosen location?

Thanks

Congratulation's to all who got through.

Can anyone tell me any news on Clare/Limerick interviews - i emailed pas a good while back and nothing happening

to be boring again can anyone give a steer on the presentation/report topics, have been reading the thread and getting nightmares about this. bad enough preparing for interview and only having 7 days to write the thing up.

I'm thinking Clare/limerick will be the last on list which makes the waiting even worse.

Thanks for all your news to date, much appreciate.

Try not to stress about the presentation. I couldn’t do the presentation from the point of view of my own Department which was very daunting and obviously out of my comfort zone but I explored and researched the topics and picked the one I felt most comfortable with. Then it’s all about thinking like a HEO, don’t get me wrong you should do research on your topic and have a good knowledge and background of it but really they just want to see how you as a HEO can make a difference, put forward ideas, manage a team and a project. So keep that in mind when you get your presentation topics and you will be fine.

I did my presentation sitting down, I felt the big thing for this was, if possible, not to be reading something at them. Try to talk 'to them' as opposed to 'at them' and be as engaging as possible. This was nerve wracking for me but I found it very helpful to record my presentation and listen back to it numerous times to become more comfortable with the content in it. I also did a test run for 2 co-workers (my HEO and AP) as a practice and found this very helpful.

I used a power-point to guide me along, just high level bullet points that I was then able to expand on. Didn't have the report on my desk or laptop in front of me and similarly didn't have the application in front of me either.

For my presentation, I also came up with a new idea which wasn't listed in the PFG but still fitted under my heading. I don't know if this helped me to achieve a quite high mark in the presentation as they could see I was thinking somewhat outside the box and coming up with something novel.

Best of luck when you sit the interview!

Had my interview and presentation today, found it tough, the questions just kept coming!! it went on for 72 minutes! have to say I was completely drained afterwards. hard to judge how it went! Just glad it's over now .Anyone else had theirs this week?, any idea when we will get results?