Administrative Officer 2023

I applied earlier this month to a 2023 AO competition - have they opened a 2024 competition in the meantime?

Grand!

This is my first attempt at the AO competition. I've tried to familiarise myself with the competencies and I'll look over the job spec once more. I'm quite old, so I'm hoping that hard-earned common sense helps me over the line.

I completed the ID verification process this afternoon, so I'm hoping to hear tomorrow whether that's passed muster.

Completely agree. Tough to approach the questions when unaware of the working culture in the civil service. Keep in mind the competency as was said, and hope for the best?! 😂 Going to need a lot of luck

IGEES have an AO open on atm but that's for people with economic degrees only I think

Worth a shot

Thank you for starting this thread I was looking for one!

I did my 3 online tests today, glad to have them over with. I always find the numerical reasoning tricky.

Best of luck to everyone ! 🤞🙏

You can practice with the familiarisation tests accessible through the same link as the actual tests and also on the main public jobs website, go to test advice. Hope this helps! Good luck

No negative marking on numerical, I noticed yesterday.

Would it be possible for somebody to upload a copy of the candidate information booklet for this campaign? That would be very much appreciated.

https://www.publicjobs.ie/en/?option=com_jobsearch&view=jobdetails&Itemid=263&cid=180177&campaignId=23411208

opps I replied to my own post so deleting this

Does anyone know when we'll be notified of test results/OOM? This is my first time going through the AO process..

End of November according to the booklet

This is my first time in the AO process also. In the booklet it said that Stage 2 commences 27th Nov - 1st Dec.

I am confused about Stage 2 as it says ‘assessment centre’ and later it refers to Stage 2 being a ‘Presentation and Interview’

Anyone been through this process before and kind enough to explain what stage 2 is please ?

Thanks for the info, guys! Does anyone know what the presentation expectations are like and why they advise to only study briefly for it? Are there going to be more instructions or is it just whatever was provided in the initial campaign booklet?

Btw, there was a link to a separate document regarding the presentation. It advised more info would be forthcoming before the presentation/interview.

Results of AO online assessments are out.

My OOM is 500+ and I see that it's those with OOM up to 100 who will be called for Stage 2 at the end of the month.

So, I'll be waiting a while - but good luck everybody!

100 in the first batch isn't too bad alot of people might have taken up private sector roles by the time they call batch 2+

My daughter passed too but OOM +1000

Sges over the moon she got through but I feel a sense of dread if it was a waste of time for her.

what’s peoples views calling over 1000, she has the open EO comp too but again OOM is above 2000 for that one.

Omg. I got top 10. I can't believe it. It says interviews commence week of 27th November.

Nice one! Congrats!

I got 146...I wonder when I'll hear about Stage 2..

Good luck for the interview etc!

I’m kind of surprised the next stage isn’t the questions they issue and have you record, I thought that was becoming a standard. An internal comp in my department is doing that for HEO.

Do we think this will be final stage? I’d hate to think I’d go through a presentation and interview twice. Once is stressful enough as it is.

Well done everyone , was happy to finally have the results so I can stop checking my phone constantly 😂

I am in the 160’s very happy with that (especially the numerical 😅) hopefully called in the New year but no guarantees.