Clerical Officer in the Civil Service 2024 Campaign

Am I right in saying it is permanent clerical officer jobs instead of the last few years been temporary clerical officer jobs?

Best of luck everyone!

i was about to do this but saw the scenarios. Cant do those tonight

any advice for completing the scenario section?

it says payment will begin at the bottom of the scale. No previous experience considered? When i worked in the hse my previous experience from tco revenue and social protection brought me up id that that and hse would do the same if i was offered something on this competition

Best of luck to all going for this. First time applying for anything like this, I imagine it's a long and drawn out process? Any rough ETA when someone might get a start if they were lucky enough to get a job ?

Applied for the 2022 one, was around this time of year too I think, interviews were done by the end of the summer and panels announced sept/Oct, got a job offer around December time and started at the beginning of 2023. It's a slow process between application short listing, interviews, results, offer, garda vetting, reference checks

Could anyone refer me to where I could find out what the take home pay is for this role? I know the weekly gross pay is on the description but trying to work out annual gross salary and net to make a comparison to my current role.

I only started in the council yesterday, I was on a permanent panel but they offered me temporary job offer but it wouldn't effect my permanent position in the panel (as i was number 1 to get next permanent contract) so I accepted it. Received my contract at the start of the week I originally thought it be 1 year temporary contract and through the next few weeks or months or 1 year they would eventually offer me the permanent contract. This is what it said in the contract: "Commencement Your employment as temporary Clerical Officer with … County Council commences on 28th June 2024 and will cease on 27th June 2026, both dates inclusive. This is a fixed term contract of employment and therefore the provisions of the Unfair Dismissals Acts, 1977-1993, will not apply to the termination of this contract where such termination is by reason only of the expiry of this fixed term".

But after few hours of starting HR called and asked me to go up to them and I was wondering why.

They spoke to me and told me that I would have been offered a permanent contract in the next few weeks but they spoke to their supervisor and they both agreed to give me the permanent contract so they had to scrap the old temporary one and give me the new permanent contract!

Hi there,

Do you know what the next stage is after you submit your application please? Is it that if you score high enough in your application you get to interview stage or is there aptitude tests between submitting application and interview?

Thank you :)

Hey all. For the part A, what did ye put down generally? Is this where the STAR method comes into play? I have listed the responsibilities/achievements bullet point style. Is this wrong?

That's what I had thought. Thank you 😊