Executive Officer 2024 Competition (Nationwide)

Yeah absolutely agree on that part, I'm in a role that suits my own skills right now however and I'm bored as beans… Barely enough work to get through half a day, no COs so I can't build any kind of experience up for applying to HEO, etc. Lovely people here and very understanding but I'd love something busier and even a little bit of stress!

Wonder when in August will the tests be out amd what company are issuing them

Assessment is done online so should be no issue getting it done in the timeframe allocated.

no you can’t

Interdepartmental competitions are always classed as promotion.

I think it mentions it in the booklet. Something along the lines of an individual currently serving at the grade of EO or equivalent cannot apply for this role. This is due to the fact you would be eligible for open competitions and mobility.

This is an example of this on a HEO comp. It is found under eligibility.

“a) be serving in an established, unestablished or acting (see para 4.e) below) capacity in the
Civil Service in a grade below that of Higher Executive Officer.”

Incorrect. It has been open recruitment recently with various departments. One has been the data protection commission & the open HEO nationwide competition for an auditor.

From DPENDR circular 11/2024

1. On the closing date of Tuesday 16th July 2024, to be eligible for consideration, a candidate
   must satisfy all of the following requirements:
   a) Be serving in a permanent, temporary or acting capacity in the Civil Service in a grade below that of Executive Officer or equivalent. Officers serving in an acting capacity at Executive Officer or equivalent level whose substantive grade is below that of Executive Officer or
   equivalent are eligible to compete in this competition.

Circular available to view here https://www.gov.ie/en/circular/0587f-dpendr-circular-11-of-2024-interdepartmental-competition-for-promotion-to-executive-officer-nationwide-2024/

I'll definitely give One Learning another look, I did everything it had as a CO honestly LOL.

Your probation doesn't restart if you move to another EO role but my Department's HR said they can't consider internal move requests before 2 years in my current role unless the SecGen requests it so this competition seems a no brainer, my team is nice so I'm hoping to stay here until the start of February when probation is up but honestly I live payday to payday on EO wages and need the management experience so I can hopefully get up to HEO to be somewhat more comfortable financially.

Surprised no internal movement option for two years in the same dept tbh. Are there different units in your division that might be busier? Should be easy enough to move units once you're staying in the same division, a few in mine have done it.

Re courses, some recently came up on one learning that might be useful for capabilities for heo - couple of project management ones, presentation, etc. I've got a team of COs now but have had my heo sign off on those courses for extra heo level experiences

@summersun23 Is it just verbal and numerical reasoning?

@Araic yeah there's the verbal reasoning, the numerical one and the situational one ( they give u a situation and u decide the best course of action. The numerical u have to pass but usually only the other 2 count for your score.