Third Secretary Campaign 2022

I unfortunately did not achieve a score high enough for interview in stage 2 of this comp, but I am applying for the Development Specialist job now too. I see that stage 2 of this will be the same, a precis. Anyone willing to share a good example of their winning entries from last time? 😅 I knew I hadn't done the best job, but was quite surprised at how badly I scored. Could certainly benefit from getting a look at a high scoring example to understand better what they're looking for...

@KRedzer I would appreciate if you could PM me too. I would definitely benefrom a good working example yoo. Many thanks

No DSO thread that I can see so it's good to see others also looking at this campaign. I wonder will they exclude before the initial assessments - that would seem like a lot of applications to check in short timeline?

I'm trying to figure out where to practice deductive reasoning - any thoughts would be great. I did the assessments last time but can't remember if the AO and the third sec exams were the same exam set that time round. I remember a lot of suduko shape type exercises but not which assessment it was for! I had paid €120 or so for a training package pre exam that time but it was AO and there doesn't seem to be a third sec one and it's now a lot more expensive so any pointers on training resources would be great.

What's the 2018 circular?

Nevermind... I looked back through the thread and figured it out.

Hi all,

I applied for the first time to DSO, and am very nervous about the situational judgment assessment. I did an AO in 2020 and didn’t pass for 10 points. Not sure if it’s the same one, but any tips welcome for all 3 assessments.

Also, if I speak 3 languages, does it help to be shortlisted or is all based on the assessments?

Thank you :)

Stiil waiting on a start date a month after being called for clearance docs. DFA extra security clearance seems to be particualrly slow.

It didn't ask me either @lucat , so hopefully we're okay.

My camera took a picture at the start, I did the situational judgement then, and only when I started the verbal did it prompt me that my camera didn't have permission to operate so I tinkered with the settings for the proctoring to operate, hoping my situational is still valid!

Overall, happy with how the situational judgement and the numerical reasoning went, think I got 35-odd done in that. The verbal reasoning was an unmitigated disaster, got awful flustered around 30, guessed about 5 of them, and know I got a good few wrong if not the majority.

Does anyone know the weighting of the situational judgement, or is it passs/fail and just numerical and verbal combined for the OOM?

Anywho, in the hands of the gods now, onwards and upwards!

Christ, I'll be bate if that's the case! Thanks dory, I might fire off an email to PAS and see what the suss is.

Anyone know when we can expect the results from the DSO psychometric tests? I believe the tests closed two weeks ago today.

I really thought we’d get the results today.

Received this from publicjobs.ie after requesting info about the status of third secretary recruitment.

"The second batch of interviews for this competition are currently ongoing. To date we have called up to and including 65 on the order of merit for this competition."

Doesn't make sense as the max score after precis exercise was 50? Anyone have any insight?

Anyone have any tips on how to approach the précis?