2024 Assistant Principal in Civil Service

I’ll throw my hat in the ring for this one, best of luck everyone.

@Oresim 🤩 Here we go again!

I noticed that you can only choose one location for this comp..

First time eligible for InterD.

Looks a little less prescribed than last time.

Good luck to all.

Where could you get help with the application? Or examples of what is expected. Never done this application before.

Thanks! I'll be applying on the Open as I'm coming from the private sector. I was wondering have you any idea if when assigning roles do they prioritise the InterD stream over the Open stream or how does it work in terms of when people are called? If there are two separate streams how do they assign merit on one vs the other? (so say a role opens, will they always go to whoever's next up on the InterD first before whoever's next up on Open, and do they exhaust that stream before they even start with Open)

The new capability framework takes potential into account. Even if you don't have experience in a specific area, but you can show you have the potential, you can pass the shortlisting/interview stage.

Looking at the previous thread on this topic, I think there is a ratio where they alternate between the two streams to take candidates

Question… I'm throwing my hat in the ring for this competition, currently in the private sector. Basically I'm in a fairly toxic corporate rat race environment and I want out as soon as possible (have been at the company for 7 years and enjoyed it most of the time, but things have taken a turn this year in my department). I'm motivated by being of some sort of good to the public as opposed to making money for a toxic unnecessarily intense corporate.

I have also recently applied to a couple of specific roles at government agencies, thinking based on the salary scales they are HEO level equivalent public sector roles. Would mean taking a fairly significant pay cut, but my priority is getting out of where I'm at, and given that the roles seem nice and at good orgs by all accounts (I know people who work there), I'm happy to do that at this point for an easier life. None of the application closing dates for those roles have come around yet so it's a wait and see job there.

Question is, if I were to get one of those other jobs and also be in the AP pool, would it affect my AP application chances if I were to change jobs during the application process? Obviously not ideal to change jobs so soon after starting one, but the AP salary is more in line with what I'm on now - and given the last panel seems to have taken about 2 years to place some people, I know for sure I can't wait that long to get out of where I am now. Would it reflect poorly on my application if I had started somewhere else in the meantime?