Executive Officer (Dublin) in the Civil Service 2023

Hi All,

If you're top of a panel in your chosen location (OOM 1) and you've been asked for eligibility (education) and location preferences within your county, does that mean you're basically guaranteed an offer? It sounds like it but ...

In one of the emails it said "before we can begin pre employment checks we need to check your eligibility for this competition" - fyi this (eligibility and location preferences) all happened within a couple of days of the interview results being released (last ten days)

The required information (location and education) was then emailed to clearance mailbox and receipt was confirmed.

Yeah I'm not in the CS so I guess I'm just trying to figure out do I keep looking for a other job or can I now bank on this coming through? Maybe I'll email clearance and ask them when do they expect to start the pre clearance checks? What ya think? Thanks in advance

Okay, now I’m even more confused. I see you have said your OOM was 103, yet you’ve been placed already? My OOM was much lower than yours and I haven’t heard back yet… thought I had some understanding on how it works but now I’m truly confused.

Email their HR and they'll let you know.

I’m also already in the CS.

Got notice today that vetting was complete so assuming references are next stage. Roughly from vetting to actual start date would anyone know how long? Typically my current employer have offered me a new job so now will have a big choice to make but if it is going to be a number of weeks before an actual start date I may get a chance to start new role and be in a better position to choose when I have to.

Before I was hoping for a start before Xmas but now would be hoping for january to give me some time in new role before having to make a decision.

I was OOM 341 had the interview today felt it didn't go well, been told that people thought they didn't do well but passed did anyone else find this happened to them?

I had my interview last month, and also felt it didn't go well. I had so many examples prepared for the competencies, but every time I started to give an example, I would get interrupted, and it really threw me.

I felt like a lot of the time they were just looking for me to say a keyword before they moved on. So a lot of it felt like they were trying to guide me to say a particular thing. But I was never sure if they were moving on to the next question because I'd given them the answer they were looking for, or if they were moving on because they thought they weren't gonna get the answer they were looking for.

So I felt like I was on the back foot the whole way through the interview. When it was over, I honestly had no idea if I'd done well, or if I had tanked it spectacularly. All of the preparation I'd put in for the competencies was thrown out the window, and I was basically just ad libbing as I went.

If I had failed I wouldn't have been surprised, as I felt it didn't go as I'd expected. And if I passed, I figured I'd probably only just scrape by. But when I got my results, I was bumped up the OOM by 170 places. So I must've done something right.

As long as you put in the preparation beforehand, I'd say you probably did better than you think you did. You should probably get your results next week. So try not to worry too much. I thought it went terribly, and it ended up going way better than I'd expected. The constant interruptions made me feel I was doing horribly. But so long as you had answers to the competencies, you ought to be okay.

Got placed in the department of education. Anybody have any insight into what this department is like is there WFH etc ? 😊

Had my interview today and was originally 371 in OOM after the competency tests. It was harder than any interview I had to do and felt the questions were being flown at me thick and fast.

The email for the interview said I was batch 2 but I seen in a earlier post that batch 2 was already finished?

I'm just wondering how long to expect to wait to see how the interview went as I'm now even confused to what batch I'm.

Sorry I'm new to this whole civil service process so it's like Latin to me at this stage haha 😄

Just wondering how long on average it took for people's Garda Vetting to come through? The website says about 5 days but was wondering if this is accurate

Just curious for peoples opinions, I recently started as CO about two weeks ago and I’m loving it so far my office is so nice and manager is very chill but from what I see I should be in the next batch to be called for EO interviews. Now all depending if I even passed the interview, I’m new to the civil service so I’m not sure if I should just take the jump to EO so quickly or stick around and build some experience in the civil service as a CO before trying to move up. I have management experience in retail which is why I applied originally but no office experience before becoming a CO. would I be dumb to stay as CO if i managed to pass the interview?

4 Days for me when I joined 2 years ago but depending on which department it can take longer, anything with the Guards and some Social Protection can be much more thorough and they check family records etc or so I've heard from friends who work in Garda Stations. Sometimes it can be 10 days just due to volume or if someone is out of office.

Hi Elfie, I got offered Dept of Education yesterday. Really duno what to do. I'm currently working as a TCO in DFA and was really hoping to stay there as it's local to me (10min drive) I commuted in my previous job for 7 years and am soooooooo done with it!

Where you told it was a 2 day in the office 3 day from home position?

Hey sorry to hop on, what do you mean when you say 'apply for mobility?'

Do you mean if you stay for two years in the EO position you can then look for a department transfer?