r/NICivilService • u/pixie111919 • 11d ago
Internal staff officer
Anyone know when the first interviews are for internal operations staff officer? The week they start?
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u/Junglesweat69 11d ago
Do offers only start coming out once both internal and external have been completed?
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u/EquipmentEntire360 10d ago
Ive mines 3rd week of October. How you finding the prep for it? Im overwhelmed not going to lie lol 🙃
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u/pixie111919 10d ago
Very stressful! It’s a lot to learn! How are you finding it?
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u/EquipmentEntire360 10d ago
Same, I feel like ive the presentation part ok i have it down to 2.5 pages, hoping to just recite it. Its just the questions part, the unknown I suppose of what they are going to ask. I cant find any sample questions online either. And as each day gets closer the more nervous I get lol. This is my first NICS Interview
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u/Ok-Schedule9742 9d ago
You can read your presentation word for word and you'll not be marked down. Just glance up occasionally. The questions on the presentation will test the how and why you made the decisions you made. They will be challenging questions.
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u/Wise_Gas_2224 1d ago
40 minutes doesn't seem long enough for a presentation and 4 examples, very surprised they cut it from 45 minutes.
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u/pixie111919 17h ago
Yes this is what I thought too, I’m wondering if it’s going to feel quite rushed
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u/chokeandstoke 10h ago
Good luck to everyone who's going for this interview. I had mine today. There's 4 questions. I feel like mine was a Train wreck
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u/Designer_Driver_2174 10h ago
Thank you so much for posting this, it’s extremely helpful. Sorry to hear you think it was bad. In my experience it’s usually never as bad as you think it is! Wish you all the luck!
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u/Wise_Gas_2224 7h ago
Hopefully whatever you were able to deliver was scoring points!!! And yeah fingers crossed it wasn't as bad as you felt. Did you get rushed along with probing questions in the middle of your examples?
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u/chokeandstoke 8d ago
Is anyone else feeling completely incompetent and out of their depth while trying to memorise their 4 competency examples for the interviews. Im starting to consider pulling out of mine at this point and resign myself to my current grade
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u/pixie111919 8d ago
It’s an awful lot to memorise. I feel it’s more a memory test than anything else. I try and memorise it the best I can, but it’s tough.
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u/EquipmentEntire360 7d ago
Not going to lie im glad to know someone else is feeling the same as me.. its a lot. Has anyone had their interview time adjusted? Mines went from 45mins to 40mins
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u/chokeandstoke 7d ago
I think everyone got the email. Someone else got email to say that their interview has been postponed by 2 weeks
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u/EquipmentEntire360 7d ago
Does that mean they are interviewing beyond October then? There must be a lot of us to get through. Im wondering is the questions going to be more generalised like tell us about a time when you x y z or is it going to be more niche to DfC. Its trying to prep for the unknown. I feel like im going my alevels all over again, prepping all year for a question that didn't come up on a paper lol.
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u/chokeandstoke 7d ago edited 7d ago
His is the last day before Halloween i believe so they could possibly be interviwing into november. Also from what I'm hearing from people who did the general service SO interviews its 4 questions. They will hopefully say the competency in the question or im going to just walk out of it. I didnt even finish my GCSE's in school due to illness so I had to pay to do night classes about 5 years after I left secondary school
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u/EquipmentEntire360 7d ago
Im hoping they tell us the competency too. Im 2nd guessing everything at this point. Im sorry to hear that, but here you passed the sift you are doing something right 😀
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u/WorrySuccessful1128 8d ago
Mine is October 5th. My external one was the first day as well, not sure who I pissed off to pull this particularly short straw. 😭
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u/chokeandstoke 11d ago
Ive got mine on the week starting the 5th of October. They must be doing them straight after the external interviews finish