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!

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

no you can’t

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

Ah feck, I was fully convinced that they had scrapped the situational. That's me goosed so

When do people reckon you should hear back on this?

Looking at the CO campaign, closing date was 8th and OOMs out in people's inboxes on the 19th - 9 working days

Would it be similar? Closing date was the 16th.

last year eo went slower than the co comp at almost every point, not too sure why. But I think the results were only about 2 weeks so should be similar!

Can anyone recommend an EO competition prep course?

CareerServices .IE came up after a Google but wondering if anyone has a personal recommendation?

Was this message automated to everyone?

So am I right in thinking the next stage is verbal , numerical and situational reasoning then? I've posted a link earlier in the thread for some free aptitude tests but if anyone else has any suggestions please link in here.

There are worked examples on Public Jobs along with a timed self-assessment you can do.

Better waiting to see what company is over the tests, they use different ones. The internal a few weeks ago used AON , numerical and verbal 6 minutes each, 18 questions with negative marking and then situational judgement in the form of instant messages, no time frame.