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UP TO 300 new civil service jobs are up for grabs for school leavers and graduates.
A competition for executive officer roles in the civil service has been launched by the Public Accounts Service.
The competition, which is now live, includes vacancies in departments and offices all over the country.
The executive officer grade is the entry level to junior management in the civil service. Officers would be engaged in critical analysis of proposals and reports and in examining the more complex, non-routine cases on which decisions are required.
Announcing the competition the Public Appointments Service stated that executive officers are involved in a wide range of roles:
A separate ‘interdepartmental’ promotion competition is also now underway for serving civil servants seeking promotion to the role of Executive Officer.
Anybody interested in the jobs can log on to www.publicjobs.ie.
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Starting salary €27,739. The pension levy of 8% must be taken off the top before Income tax, PRSI and USC are deducted. 43.25hr/week, 23 days holidays/year. 15 years get to the top of the grade (±€47K).
Come all you public service bashers who think public servants are underworked and overpaid – time to take advantage of the system and send your CV in. You’ll be on the pigs back! :-))
@Connachtabu: €27k for a school leaver? I’d be all over it!
@Connachtabu:
How many people will apply. Possibly 100000 best case to 500000 worst case. I love to know where the people come out of. I would say it is easier to win Euro Millions then get one of these jobs.
27k is about average for a non specialist business grad role. Plus working conditions are yearly raise and a job for life… not bad.
@Brendan Mason: Half a million people? Like 1 in 4 working people in this country will apply for a entry level admin job?
@Eyepopper: The minimum is a leaving cert, but all applicants will be ranked and interviewed, with the most qualified getting the jobs.
There’s thousands with degrees who are unemployed. I’d be very surprised if someone walked out of secondary school into one of these jobs.
@Cian. You’re incorrect. Once the application process is complete, candidates are then put forward for aptitude tests. Once those tests are completed, candidates are placed in order of merit depending on how they performed at the aptitude tests. The “most qualified” definitely do not get the jobs. The degree is for eligibility only. Once the tests start, degrees go out the window
@Cian Martin: How many people are on welfare? How many people left school in the last 5 years? How many people are on work and training schemes? How many people are working for crappy employers for minimum wage or less with no job security? How many times have you queued at a supermarket/bank and see 6 tills with one person working. Civil Service is a job for life. How many people will lose their jobs in the next six months.
I think 500000 is a conservative estimate.
@Connachtabu: Civil Engineer starting salary Dublin €27-€30k per year, 4 years of college at avg €7k per year (fees, rent, bills etc). Temperamental market where no job is guaranteed, 50 hour week, no guaranteed pension and working out in all weathers – yes these graduate/school leavers have it tough.
@Connachtabu: You make a point but its a job for life. Getting a load is so much easier. I am not giving out out public service. There are advantages and disadvantages to public and private.
We would all love a defined benefit pension and lump sum for 8% levy Government have promised to reduce it also
Says all we need to know about the public service when someone thinks this is a poor starting salary. Ye have no grasp of reality.
The aptitude test is the stumbling block. Most of the private sector score too high to be accepted
No school leaver will get these jobs. They are too under qualified. They expect degrees for these jobs.
You know what to do then Chicken George. Apply.
If the job is Dublin based then I’d advise applicants from outside Dublin to emigrate.
If you don’t have a parent to house you then you’ll struggle to survive in Dublin.
The housing situation in Dublin is now a humanitarian crisis. Dublin needs to be avoided by prospective employers and employees until the emergency has been addressed by direct government intervention.
It’s nationwide where you pick your county in the application
@Kevin Higgins: Most civil service jobs are Dublin based.
There should be a clear warning on those jobs that unless you have a parent living in Dublin then you shouid not apply as living in Dublin is now impossible thanks to the humanitarian crisis that Dublin housing has become.
And I hope the IDA are warning foreign investors not to locate in Dublin at the present time for the same reason.
Roll up Roll up all you whingers about Public Servants and their huge pay and golden pensions. Here is a chance to apply just like every single public has done. No excuses now, here is your chance.
Btw. Galway are recruiting Firefighters if anyone doesn’t want a clerical job.
Well thats exactly what the country needs, more administrators in the civil service.
@Eyepopper: Executive Officers are nowhere near administration level. They’re donkeys, like the rest of us clerical desk jockeys.
300 ? That many will have them destroyed with the excitement !
Wonder how long those successful candidates will last the pace in the cut and thrust of the Civil Service. Anecdotal evidence would suggest a high leave rate in recent hirings at the lower levels.
Salary scale.. €27,464, €29,418, €30,516, €32,687, €34,360, €35,977, €37,588, €39,166, €40,760, €42,311, €43,909, €44,967, €46,473, €47,975 Long Service increment-1, LSI-2
Should be an allowance for people working in cites where there is a higher cost of living…
Or why not decentralised the jobs to regional offices, equal pay for equal work and all that.
Difficulty level of the Job all depends what department and role you are giving. An EO in one area could be cushty & another ball breaking. That’s the civil service for you.
I might apply, I always wanted a job where I could put my feet up on a desk and relax and read a few newspapers back to front. its a job for life, impossible to get the sack.
Then don’t just talk about doing it on here actually do it.
@Mick Jordan: Application in. looking forward to retirement if i get the job.
@Mr D: Best of luck.
@Mr D: So how did you get on in the end?
How come the headline says “school leavers”, the article says nada but then the apliication itself says leaving cert required?
In general its a junior managment role. Leaving cert would minium, degree at least would be required often those that go for it are way over qualified but the work life balance is solid
Then why does the headline say school leavers?
Because a leaving cert is the minnium you need.
From what’s being going on in the colleges lately a good leaving cert and a few years work under the belt is probably worth more than an awful lot of the degrees out there.
That is to make the starting salary look good
@poole the degree gets you in the door, , it also a way of cutting down candidate numbers in one swoop.
If you don’t have a degree you won’t get the job. There are people with masters going for clerical officer jobs
Also known as the Budding Writer’s Support Scheme. If we get one Hugh Leonard or one Flann O’Brien out of the bunch of wanquers will be worthwhile.
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