Executive Officer (Dublin) in the Civil Service 2023

They absolutely can. I referred to my studies/Master's thesis and work experience from a few year's back as examples of some competencies, because the interviewers asked me specifically about them.

Hope that helps 😊

Thanks 🙏 just realised I missed on writing about my past work experience in the application (which was 15 years back ) though I would have loved to state some examples from that 😂

They'll put you into the next batch. The way they are going with this competition you won't be waiting too much longer.

That's fast I wonder if they are going do loads of interviews and then people will be waiting ages to be placed 🤔

Ok great I have been reading through it but didn’t want to spend to much time on it instead of preparing my competencies.

If it's like the CO comp you get an email saying whether you passed or failed about a week after interview.

Then you just wait for them to reach your number on the list basically, no guarantee even if you pass.

If you are currently a CO and you get the promotion does your years of service transfer over/ would you start on the pay scale point you’re currently on? If that makes any sense…

I got an interview date before while I was away and the rescheduled it to 3 days earlier. I had a little longer to wait to get results but they were very accomadating

Question, what did that essay we did count towards? I was under the impression we would be interviewed on it. We weren't graded on it so what is its purpose?

How do you prepare for this interview? I'm interested in what techniques others use.

Hello Ive come to vent 😂 I absolutely bottled that interview. I went completely blank approx half way through, they seemed really tight for time and kept rushing and interrupting my answers, it completely put me off. I also really struggled with the video format instead of in person interview, was just so difficult to get in the zone and focus. I'm feeling so deflated I was really confident going into the interview. There was nothing terribly shocking about their questions but I struggled with the way some of the questions were phrased.

I was recently diagnosed with ADHD and on the autism spectrum, and I almost mentioned it in the interview because I think that was the problem - I was interpreting the question too literally, and she would interrupt my answer. That really threw me off focus. I think it's too late to mention that now I just wasn't expecting to have such an issue - ive previously had in person interviews for civil service and I was really happy with them, but that today.. I don't even know I'm feeling awful about it.

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They pull groups at a time so it will sit at 288 and then likely jump up into the 400s then sit there for a while.

Waiting for interview results is the worst 😭😂

Did they just ask you what the values are?

I think we know that 1-288 are being interviewed in the first batch, just out of interest, of the people who have been interviewed so far, how close are we to 288? I was in the 40s and interviewed Tuesday