Administrative Officer (Specialist Streams) 2024

I applied for energy and climate stream. I'm 77 oom and have no idea how many applied in this competition? I really hope I'll get the chance to interview.

Hi, has the first batch got invite for interview stage? they said they would call up to OOM 36 by end of April.

hello, I have my interview this Thursday for the energy, environment and climate stream. Has anyone had theirs yet and have any advice? Thank you!

No idea really, I would assume under 2 weeks. I had mine today. What stream were you in? Hope you got on well!

I’m in the business and finance stream, I thought the interview was really intense, the questions are nonstop and theres not much time for general chat but the board members were lovely. Fingers crossed we’re not waiting too long for results now! How did you find your interview @goldenmushroom?

The first batch had about 2 and a half weeks to prepare so based on that I would guess it could be late May or early June but that’s absolutely just a guess!!m

@oscillation I found it the same, quite intense but all kind panel members :) such a blur now! Yes, hopefully we aren't waiting too long. Best of luck, keep me posted

Do we think we’ll get interview results before the long weekend? Driving myself crazy refreshing the site every 10 mins!! Afraid to ask them and annoy them though

Results out finally, I’m delighted! Hopefully everything moves along a bit faster now. Hope everyone is pleased with their results :)

Just to add, I was doubting myself after the interview big time - I had previously done CO and EO interview so kind of had an idea of what was going to come up but I felt like I didn't do as good in the AO but at least I passed. My advice would be to know the competencies and practice answering questions, there is a great list of questions on one of the old EO threads that has basically every question they could ask in an EO/AO interview. Also the specialist knowledge questions I found were quite easy and broad e.g. what do you know about sustainable energy, what policies do the government have to reduce GHG emissions. Best of luck to anyone going for interview!

Results are out!!! Thrilled I passed, I was doubting myself after the interview. I hope everyone is pleased with their results :-).

For anyone waiting for an interview or interviewing soon, I would definitely recommend knowing the competencies and their examples extremely well. My interview board were lovely, so nothing to be nervous about. Wishing everyone the best of luck!

hello, congratulations on your result! I ranked 1 in the energy environment and climate stream and I haven't received any follow up details yet. A year ago I was offered a job within another department (turned it down) about a month or so after receiving results, but it depends on how quickly you get references and do the clearance process.

They will ask for contact details for your references and they send them an email with a form to fill out, you will also have to do Garda vetting if you are not already in the civil service which can take anything from a week to 6 months depending on how lucky you are.

I can't fully remember but I think I would have only provided one or two - the job I worked in at the time had a HR office so they just filled it out but now that I think of it the job I had previous to that didn't and I don't know if PAS were ever successful in getting a response from them but it wasn't an issue anyway!

got called for clearance today, all due Monday. Does anyone know how soon after clearance we might be offered roles ?

I've also been contacted for clearance and submitted my documentation - and received confirmation of receipt.

I'm working in the CS in another department. Does anyone know if this is the moment to let my manager know? I know they will be contacting HR from my dept but would like my manager to know from me and not from HR, just not sure which is the moment I could be sure I would get a role from the competition and when.

Yes..my line manager is an AO

No, this competition is Dublin only.

Things are moving quickly now! I just got assigned a department, hopefully not too long until start date and contract sorted :)

Thank you @bbot99 I’m in Finance, very happy to be going there. No update on start date yet, it’s a bit awkward trying to figure out when to give notice to my current employer and arrange holidays etc. but fingers crossed I hear something this week. From my experience PAS contacted my references a few days after my garda vetting was completed so I would expect you to hear from them this week :)

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows what number or Batch of interviews they have reach for the HR stream.

Does anyone know what number or Batch of interviews they have reach for the Business/ finance stream?

perfect thanks so much.