Garda Reserve Recruitment 2024

how did ye go in stage 2 lads? Did you get an OOM?

Yeah sorry, meant stage 1 for the OOM results. Stage 2 interview 🥵

Not fact but i have heard it is not nearly as intense @Marty1476

I am way down in mid 300's so im a bit behind. Have you got emails looking for some details from you? I hear they are getting ready for interviews. All the best with it

Thanks Jimmy, i don't think the oom means much tbh. I got the email to send details last week and got interview information today. The structure seems to be very similar to the full time interview

had mine this morning. Very hard to know how it went cause they don't give anything away. Two on the panel, one from Public jobs and a Detective Sergeant. The DS went through 'resilience and motivation' to be a reserve and the public jobs woman went through teamwork and previous work history

Not sure if this helps but here's some points they focused on in my interview.

Motivation to be a garda reserve: The asked how would I feel taking orders from someone younger than me. They also asked when the last time I had to prepare a long document. How would I feel being around violent situations, dead bodies etc.

Community engagement: They asked about volunteer work and how that would help me in a role with AGS, working with the community etc.

Resilience: They asked about my resilience under pressure and for some examples of that. Also how I have dealt with difficult situations within work with other colleagues or as part of the community.

They seemed to circle back a few times to when 'I was faced with a difficult or dangerous situation and how I handled it'

Teamwork: They asked for examples of when I was faced with a task as a team leader and how I overcame obstacles to complete the task, they then asked for an example of when I was part of a team but not the leader and what my input was to help achieve the goal.

Sorry if this makes it sound difficult but my personal advice is to start a note book with some examples of the above and add to it day by day until you're comfortable with a few examples that you can speak about confidently

any word back? still waiting

I haven't gotten my result from the interview yet, I thought it would be quicker to hear back

Interesting, from what i have read lads got results in 10-14 days of the interview. Definitely may be worth sending an email….

I don't have my interview until Friday morning this week so unfortunately a bit behind you

Just got my interview results today, did the interview last week. Have you heard anything?
Saw on another forum there is a number to ring 6662571, supposedly very helpful and the email (which i presume is the one you mailed but just in case) gardareserve2024@publicjobs.ie

all the best, keep me upto date

passed the interview, thankfully! I've sent off the vetting form and I did the medical so just waiting for more updates at this point. Any movement on your side? I haven't chased anything up myself cause I'm up to my eyes with my job at the moment, and no news is usually good news with AGS :-)

has your vetting come back already? I used to live in a few other countries in my younger years so I know that's gonna hold things up

Can someone DM me a blank copy of form b please

the form B is all online, you 'save' your progression as you go through it. It's not the form they used to send out

MY b form was paper if I remember correctly

Ah, I get ya now with the batches. My vetting will be a nightmare, it's the first time I've been asked to get reports from other countries I've lived in, usually AGS would do that themselves and not sure why they're asking us to get these reports ourselves. I'm expecting that to hold me up a lot.