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NEW 2018 Assistant Principal Officer Competition

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    #572
    quad_red
    Registered Users Posts: 5,561 ✭✭✭quad_red


    Anyone know what time the first sec comp closes?


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    #573
    Subutai
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Subutai


    quad_red wrote: »
    Anyone know what time the first sec comp closes?

    3pm


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    #574
    Crunchymomma
    Registered Users Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Crunchymomma


    I actually meant to get my 1st sec app in today but ended up not having time! Ah well, honestly not sure how I would have felt about all the travel. Although a friend of mine is a 1st sec with three kids and her and her husband seem to do fine


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    #575
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,363 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    The_Conductor wrote: »
    Had a look at the details- and decided as I have young children, and don't mind travel for a day here or there- that it would be too much to try and bring my family abroad for a protracted period of time. It would better suit someone younger than I am- who doesn't have children or other ties to consider. Being away for a couple of days is one thing- being away for 3 year placements- is quite another.
    It would have to be hugely disruptive to family life. Though I did hear of one person who got it recently as an escape route from the dysfunctional Dept Health!


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    #576
    Sir Ophiuchus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Sir Ophiuchus


    WAW wrote: »
    Fair play to you! How did you handle the Foreign Policy element?!

    I got lucky; my current job actually has some pretty strong foreign policy elements.


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    #577
    APcomp
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭APcomp


    I am calling it, results will issue around 4pm tomorrow :p (complete guess btw!)


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    #578
    Sir Ophiuchus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Sir Ophiuchus


    APcomp wrote: »
    I am calling it, results will issue around 4pm tomorrow :p (complete guess btw!)

    100% official folks, you heard it here first!


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    #579
    Crunchymomma
    Registered Users Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Crunchymomma


    APcomp wrote: »
    I am calling it, results will issue around 4pm tomorrow :p (complete guess btw!)

    That would be amazing..... Need to be put out of my misery


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    #580
    prettyboy81
    Registered Users Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭prettyboy81


    Another Friday has arrived with more speculation.


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    #581
    Kilometres na gcopaleen
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Kilometres na gcopaleen


    APcomp wrote: »
    I am calling it, results will issue around 4pm tomorrow :p (complete guess btw!)

    Hope so, feels like waiting for a guillotine to plunge.


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    #582
    gerrybbadd
    Registered Users Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    Won't be this week. Nearly always, if there's a bank holiday weekend coming up, they will release them that Friday before


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    #583
    PhoenixParker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    Every competition I've looked back on has has the first round results out in 1 to 2 weeks. Mostly ten days or less.

    This is already taking longer then normal for stage 1.
    I'm wondering if they've started with shortlisting pre-release but who knows. Based on the old panel finishing, the indications are that this panel needs to be in place fairly soon.

    Probably means 3 more weeks waiting for stage 1 and interviews next March. PAS can't be seen to be too predictable.


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    #584
    ParkRunner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,004 ✭✭✭ParkRunner


    I can’t imagine they will do stage 1 and 2 together as any apppeals would be messy!


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    #585
    misslemon
    Registered Users Posts: 983 ✭✭✭misslemon


    ParkRunner wrote: »
    I can’t imagine they will do stage 1 and 2 together as any apppeals would be messy!

    That’s a really good point. Hopefully we hear something this afternoon, rather have this weekend ruined than the bank holiday!


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    #586
    Sir Ophiuchus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Sir Ophiuchus


    No joy with that, it appears.


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    #587
    quad_red
    Registered Users Posts: 5,561 ✭✭✭quad_red


    gerrybbadd wrote: »
    Won't be this week. Nearly always, if there's a bank holiday weekend coming up, they will release them that Friday before

    Nailed it. 3pm on Friday of bank holiday weekend just before I fly out on holiday.


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    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,278 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    quad_red wrote: »
    Nailed it. 3pm on Friday of bank holiday weekend just before I fly out on holiday.

    :(


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    #589
    PhoenixParker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    quad_red wrote: »
    Nailed it. 3pm on Friday of bank holiday weekend just before I fly out on holiday.

    Or itll be hanging over you for the holiday :(


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    #590
    marbol
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭marbol


    Spoke to PAS and they hope to issue results by end of this week.
    Good luck everyone ☘️


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    #591
    APcomp
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭APcomp


    marbol wrote: »
    Spoke to PAS and they hope to issue results by end of this week.
    Good luck everyone ☘️

    Wednesday would be ideal, enough time to be miserable prior to the bank holiday and then hopefully start to come around again for it!


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    #592
    Bringitonn
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭Bringitonn


    Any idea how many have applied for this?


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    #593
    Crunchymomma
    Registered Users Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Crunchymomma


    marbol wrote: »
    Spoke to PAS and they hope to issue results by end of this week.
    Good luck everyone ☘️

    That would be fantastic! Feel like we have been waiting ages and 2016 open panel expires next week


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    #594
    Subutai
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Subutai


    Bringitonn wrote: »
    Any idea how many have applied for this?

    Won't know for the current one, but the 2016 competition saw 3,108 applicants for AP.


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    #595
    bravenewworld1
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭bravenewworld1


    Subutai wrote: »
    Won't know for the current one, but the 2016 competition saw 3,108 applicants for AP.

    Do you have any idea how many AP positions they might need to fill?


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    #596
    JustJohn91
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭JustJohn91


    bravenewworld1 wrote: »
    Do you have any idea how many AP positions they might need to fill?

    How long is a piece of string?


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    #597
    sillysocks
    Registered Users Posts: 2,634 ✭✭✭sillysocks


    Would be interesting to know what number the got to on the panel that’s about to expire....


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    #598
    R777B
    Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭R777B


    sillysocks wrote: »
    Would be interesting to know what number the got to on the panel that’s about to expire....

    It would. Wasn't it roughly 1000 that were brought forward to the next round at a similar point in the last campaign? 1/3rd seems like a lot to bring forward though...


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    #599
    Subutai
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Subutai


    R777B wrote: »
    It would. Wasn't it roughly 1000 that were brought forward to the next round at a similar point in the last campaign? 1/3rd seems like a lot to bring forward though...

    They identify 2,015 as having been "tested/shortlisted", which presumably refers just to the numbers sitting stage 1 as these figures are from the 2016 Annual Report and only that stage was completed in 2016.

    Sadly, they don't follow the same format for their 2017 report. However, in 2016 they ran an interdependental HEO which saw a similar 3,000 applications, 2,804 of which were "tested/shortlisted", with 603 interviewed for 320 places on the panel.


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    #600
    sillysocks
    Registered Users Posts: 2,634 ✭✭✭sillysocks


    Subutai wrote: »
    They identify 2,015 as having been "tested/shortlisted", which presumably refers just to the numbers sitting stage 1 as these figures are from the 2016 Annual Report and only that stage was completed in 2016.

    Sadly, they don't follow the same format for their 2017 report. However, in 2016 they ran an interdependental HEO which saw a similar 3,000 applications, 2,804 of which were "tested/shortlisted", with 603 interviewed for 320 places on the panel.

    It’s how many they then took off the panel that would interesting, they could have a panel of 300 and only call 10 from that.


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    #601
    Max Mustermann
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭Max Mustermann


    bravenewworld1 wrote: »
    Do you have any idea how many AP positions they might need to fill?

    About 200 per year according to the excellent analysis by bobbysands81 near the bottom of this page:

    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057671941/155


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