Executive Officer 2024 Competition (Nationwide)

RRan out of time for maths .oh well !

It was totalled as a score of 800 with 370 being the passing mark last year for the Dublin comp so 46.25% in each test, but that assumes even marking and stuff… realistically get half right i guess.

I had a look at the sample questions yesterday.

in relation to maths Q3…..I did come up an answer that was not one of the 3 figures so I went with the 4th option….which was ended up being right…..as total car sales cannot be determined as not enough information provided.

….electric car sales east coast….12% = €60m….so 1%=€5m…..total sales in the county was something like €345m

planning on doing 1 test a day over the next 4 days.

Just going through the familiarisation information and on the Written Exercise is states ‘This element of the process will assess your written skills and will also provide evidence under the capabilities of Leading and Empowering and Communicating and Collaborating.’

It also states:

NOTE - you do not need to memorise the Leading and Empowering and Communicating and Collaborating capabilities for the live Written Exercise as you will be able to view it within the live Exercise

You can: you can indicate that every option is bad. You're not 'using up' your only bad choice by selecting it.

Hope this makes sense. I totally understand why you'd like to clear this up as you prep for the assessment.

Whoops, I didn't do the 15 seconds in each direction either…

you'll be grand i did a balls of it last year for dublin and i didnt have issues

forgot to do half of the room scan only really looked around on my screen. yea i got an interview but i didnt take a job from the panel because i'd just started as eo from another :)

Did the Verbal last night - wish theyd give at least the answers - not sure how i did

yeah i suppose it makes sense…probably half of the answers im not sure on! hope it went well

i was meant to press the room scan for the Situational but i pressed and did the numerical, does that reset or will i have to do the numerical now

Phew!! Literally just finished the Written Test with exactly 500 words and 1 second left on the clock 😂 Talk about sailing close to the wind 😬 Anyway, I think I did fairly well, although the majority of what I wrote was answering the first question, my response to the 2nd questions was fairly broad and more my opinion as opposed to specific experiences but it seemed appropriate so I hope they are OK with it.

For anyone who has yet to do it and is nervous, just know that there isn't anyway that you can study or prepare for this one other than being familiar with the capabilities and understanding how they pertain to the way one should manage others, I didn't have time to go back and re-read them even though they are there so making sure you feel comfortable with the gist of them is your best bet.

I don't find the other tests too hard except that I am Neurodivergent so we struggle with multiple choice answers anyway as we would generally answer "well it depends" to everything 😅 I do find the numerical ones annoying as they are less a test of your maths skills and more a test of your ability to analyse the data and decide what maths to use to determine the answer but there are often too many words and it seems they are trying to trip you up which given the time constraints seems unfair and not like a real world situation.

And anyone yet to do their tests, do it in the morning before you start work, get up earlier if you have to, don't leave it until the evening as your brain is more tired then.

Anyhoo, we shall see, fingers crossed and good luck everyone 🤞🤞🤞😊

Can they listen in while recording you? Neighbour is getting work done and alot of banging and drilling going on😭