Clerical Officer in the Civil Service 2024 Campaign

how was the interview @boxman24

through zoom? I should download that rwally. What do you do just connect through a link they send?

At boxman. Are u dublin? Btw i dont tjink it would take long to get placed unless it's somewhere that needs the extra vetting -that takes a good bit longer.

They call people in batches for interview for positions, the number in the batch will vary depending on the number of CO positions that are available at the time.

Batches could be 10/20 people. It varies.

You will get a batch number later down the process, so say your OOM 55, and calling in batches of 20, you'll be batch 3. This may be listed on your portal down the line, as was before for these competitions.

You have to also remember, not everyone is going to go to interview or even pass interview. So it's not like 54 people ahead of you need to get placed if your 55 OOM. People will turn down the position also once offered.

After interview you'll get a new OOM as that's the batch they will be placing on, so you could be OOM 1 then batch 3.

I hope that makes sense, that's how stuff worked in previous panels anyway. And surely similar here.

There is 50 ahead of you, but all them won't take up a position. You'd be surprised how many would just ignore follow up messages or not take up positions. Also the salary when people notice what it is, can be a turn off if not already known the exact breakdown. Best of luck!

Any movement in Offaly?

Where do you find an email to email them? I can't seem to find it.

I've just emailed asking where Meath is - assume no one here called for meath yet ?

Thanks for this SS. If you hear anything else at all on Meath I'd appreciate you passing it on. I'm completely new to all this - I'm early 100s on the Meath OOM so assuming I shouldn't really hold out hope for much.

Has anyone in Cork gotten any further than location selection after completing stage 1? I got an OOM of 147 so not holding out much hope for getting an interview 😫

Ah, I'm generally a big pessimist 😆 thanks a million. Hopefully a little slice of luck for the both of us.

im in top ten for Cork and nothing yet since the location selection. sent an email this morning enquiring….awaiting response

received my Garda vetting

Have you heard anything since boxman? I received notification of my garda vetting yesterday from themselves, nothing from PAS.

I’ve no idea what the next steps are really

Sorry, only coming back to this now. They will ask everyone different questions, but they are all "tell me about a time you…". Personally I prefer not to be over-practiced for an interview, if something comes up that you aren't expecting then you might get anxious and stumble. But that's just me of course. I wasn't happy with how I answered one question but still was successful.

In good news though I was offered a placement today. So that was 3.5 weeks from interview to offer for mid-20's OOM in Dublin. I don't know when I will start yet. But I'm very happy where I ended up (I'd prefer not to say where).

Hi all,

I'm looking for opinions from those of you with more knowledge on this hiring process. I'm unemployed at the moment. I'm on panel for clerical officer campaign but I also have been called for interview for county council clerical officer over the next few weeks. I know with the panel, I could be sitting on it for a year but If I was successful with this interview, how quick is the hiring process within the likes of the council? I'm unsure as to whether I should hold off on other job applications or still go ahead with them. I need to find employment soon but I also would plan on taking the job In the council should I be successful. I'm just a bit stumped I suppose.

Hi I would take which ever one comes first, looking long term the council have better annual leave

Just wondering is anything moving in any regional counties outside the cities did anyone hear... nothing happening in Meath yet it seems..

I was placed 289 in Dublin and had my interview on Wednesday, and have an email saying have message to go on public jobs this morning (48 hours later)

I passed interview and retained my position on the panel

Think I might give them a ring Monday see have they any idea when or where I could be offered