Executive Officer in the Civil Service 2018 (Dublin)

KtodaT · 07-09-2018 2:50pm

https://paseo0918.assessmentintelligence.co.uk/testpreparation

This link doesn't work for me

Anyone else having issues?

JennyZ · 07-09-2018 2:53pm

There is no Numerical testing mentioned in the familiarisation material, does anyone know if this come at a later stage in the assessment process? Don't have booklet to hand. Tks

Pudsy33 · 07-09-2018 4:01pm

From my reading of it, we just have to do the assessment questionnaire next week. The maths and English bits will follow.

hcor · 07-09-2018 5:27pm

Anyone got a link to the familiarisation material? The website is down until 5pm Sunday, so I can’t access the message!

shiversd · 07-09-2018 8:33pm

Hi all,

So I lost out by one point in the 2016 EO competition on the numerical test (supervised one)but passed the earlier stages of assessment. Anyone know if you can carry over previous results to this campaign? I thought i has read somewhere on the public jobs website that you could do this if applying for the same competition or similar. Their website is down until Sunday for maintenance so cant check it out . Have the first assessment next week for this one. Thanks

shiversd · 07-09-2018 8:37pm

It works for me on my PC just now. Not sure why it wont work for you. sorry i cant be of more help

The_Conductor · 07-09-2018 8:38pm

shiversd wrote: »

Hi all,

So I lost out by one point in the 2016 EO competition on the numerical test (supervised one)but passed the earlier stages of assessment. Anyone know if you can carry over previous results to this campaign? I thought i has read somewhere on the public jobs website that you could do this if applying for the same competition or similar. Their website is down until Sunday for maintenance so cant check it out . Have the first assessment next week for this one. Thanks

2016 competition? Honestly- not a snowballs chance in hell.
Nice try though.........
I'd love to carry my last online testing to the current competitions I'm in- but its not going to happen.......

If your score in various sittings of the online testing differs by more than a set amount- there is an automatic assumption that cheating of one form or another has occurred...........

I'm specatacular at the numerical tests online- but struggle with the verbal- I did fairly decent at the last verbal (some guessing was involved)- and would love to carry it for future tests- however, it would be remiss of PAS to allow me to do so............

shiversd · 07-09-2018 8:53pm

The_Conductor wrote: »

2016 competition? Honestly- not a snowballs chance in hell.
Nice try though.........
I'd love to carry my last online testing to the current competitions I'm in- but its not going to happen.......

If your score in various sittings of the online testing differs by more than a set amount- there is an automatic assumption that cheating of one form or another has occurred...........

I'm specatacular at the numerical tests online- but struggle with the verbal- I did fairly decent at the last verbal (some guessing was involved)- and would love to carry it for future tests- however, it would be remiss of PAS to allow me to do so............

I only sat the test earlier this year though so think its if you sat the test in the last 12 months or not. But I'll still sit the assessments again just curious if this is the case and I cant check with their website down... its bugging me is all!

Dubs9 · 08-09-2018 12:58am

KtodaT wrote: »

This link doesn't work for me Anyone else having issues?

I don't have access to my inbox on public jobs but I tried your link. I got into it but it doesn't seem like a full example. There were 3 questions at the start and then one scenario. I would have thought there should be more to it.

doc22 · 08-09-2018 10:04am

They might carry over scores for the regional eo, It would be unfair that regionals who didn't select dublin to compete against those who have already seen/done perhaps the exact same tests for EO dublin.

Looks like PAS have copped on to possible cheating on verbal and numeric ,it looks like they will be done dublin like the latest CO. Little point in supervised test if the candidate screenshots text/answers and got help in previous home test.

Skip13 · 08-09-2018 2:28pm

shiversd wrote: »

Hi all,

So I lost out by one point in the 2016 EO competition on the numerical test (supervised one)but passed the earlier stages of assessment. Anyone know if you can carry over previous results to this campaign? I thought i has read somewhere on the public jobs website that you could do this if applying for the same competition or similar. Their website is down until Sunday for maintenance so cant check it out . Have the first assessment next week for this one. Thanks

I thought it was a totally new competition.

Dubs9 · 08-09-2018 5:48pm

It looks like publicjobs.ie is back working. Hopefully it'll stay that way.

shiversd · 09-09-2018 1:18am

doc22 wrote: »

They might carry over scores for the regional eo, It would be unfair that regionals who didn't select dublin to compete against those who have already seen/done perhaps the exact same tests for EO dublin.

Looks like PAS have copped on to possible cheating on verbal and numeric ,it looks like they will be done dublin like the latest CO. Little point in supervised test if the candidate screenshots text/answers and got help in previous home test.

Just to clear here, there was no cheating ! I just found that even after all the practicing before the numerical tests, i stuggled with the amount of time allocated. I also stubbornly answered all the questions even though i guessed the remaining few! I kept getting distracted buy the timer instead of answering qs correctly. Lesson learned !

Claireyy · 09-09-2018 1:38pm

Has anyone else done the familarisation material? It seems very short to me... There was one question about describing myself and then one job scenario...usually the practice material has verbal and numerical scernarios?!

Skip13 · 09-09-2018 1:47pm

Claireyy wrote: »

Has anyone else done the familarisation material? It seems very short to me... There was one question about describing myself and then one job scenario...usually the practice material has verbal and numerical scernarios?!

With the EO stage one is just situational questions first and then a few weeks later verbal and numeracy

Noseyaf · 10-09-2018 1:14pm

Hey has anyone done the assessment? waiting till I get home but quiet nervous

cmurpie · 11-09-2018 11:47am

Did anyone do the Assessment yet ? how was it ?

FenFlynn · 11-09-2018 1:49pm

cmurpie wrote: »

Did anyone do the Assessment yet ? how was it ?

Haven't started yet. Still trying on some practice ones, hopefully that'll help a bit in getting a better score. I've never been good with the situational judgement tests, so the more practice the better.

cmurpie · 11-09-2018 2:05pm

FenFlynn,

Have you a link for practice tests ?

FenFlynn · 11-09-2018 2:08pm

cmurpie wrote: »

FenFlynn,

Have you a link for practice tests ?

hi, I paid for one on jobtestprep.co.uk, im not confident to do it without any preparation so I just bought a package to practice on

Noseyaf · 11-09-2018 2:19pm

Hi everyone,

I just completed the online assessments.
There was three stages,
The first, was how you'd describe yourself, very accurate indifferent not at all etc.
The second was what you want from a role, must have, don't mind, must not have.
And the final was a paragraph with four or five options of responses and you just said which was weak, good or excellent.

Very hard to tell if you did well as it's all just opinion based, don't think there is a right or wrong answer

FenFlynn · 11-09-2018 2:22pm

Noseyaf wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I just completed the online assessments.
There was three stages,
The first, was how you'd describe yourself, very accurate indifferent not at all etc.
The second was what you want from a role, must have, don't mind, must not have.
And the final was a paragraph with four or five options of responses and you just said which was weak, good or excellent.

Very hard to tell if you did well as it's all just opinion based, don't think there is a right or wrong answer

Thanks so much for that.
Now I know what to practice on. Didn't realise there were three parts, would have been totally unarmed

Gaffer78 · 11-09-2018 2:44pm

Is anybody yet to recieve a link to the testing window?

kopite386 · 11-09-2018 2:58pm

I completed the assessment yesterday only took me 30 minutes and that was reading over everything carefully so don't get too stressed about it, as above its all opinion based

FenFlynn · 11-09-2018 5:34pm

kopite386 wrote: »

I completed the assessment yesterday only took me 30 minutes and that was reading over everything carefully so don't get too stressed about it, as above its all opinion based

Hi, would you remember who the provider is?
Thanks for the tips. I'm certainly less stressed out now, will attempt it tomorrow morning I think

carnie · 12-09-2018 12:07pm

Just completed it. Wasn't bad, there was one question I went back to a couple of times to change the answer.

Anyone know if the next stage is an attitude test?

SomeSayKos · 12-09-2018 12:20pm

carnie wrote: »

Just completed it. Wasn't bad, there was one question I went back to a couple of times to change the answer.

Anyone know if the next stage is an attitude test?

Pretty sure the next stage is a numerical test and a verbal reasoning test

wicklow girl · 12-09-2018 3:14pm

Just finished, took my time about 50 mins. very similar to familiarisation stuff. Had it completed in 35 mins then went back over it changed one or two answers. All in all happy enough as others have said its all about your own opinion so don't get stressed. Said at end next info will be out week of 24th if successful or not so good luck everyone.

FenFlynn · 13-09-2018 4:02pm

Just finished mine, I thought it was quite difficult. The third part is unambiguous and I wasn't sure in most cases, hopefully it was adequate to pass. Good luck everyone!

JennyZ · 15-09-2018 11:51am

For anyone who selected both Open and Internal/Interdepartmental on the application for the open competition, is it then required to also complete the seperate Internal application process and forms issued internally to be eligible for Internal/Interdepartmental? Thanks

Executive Officer in the Civil Service 2018 (Dublin)

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