Civil service fast stream 2014/2015

Seeing as my orientation is towards the end of January I would estimate that my FSAC day may be in February at the latest?

Could anyone that had an orientation day shed some light as to how long the dates were in-between the orientation and actual FSAC? Many thanks!

Once you leave the scheme, you can apply for any job you like.

DaT jobs vary widely between technical/project-related/policy etc. Currently you undertake 4 6-month placements (including one outside government) and then return to one of those departments for a year. There is an optional 4th year for trainees with identified leadership potential. Currently those finishing after 3 years go into an SEO role, and those finishing after 4 years go into a grade 7 role.

Contacted by my first choice department about a week or so ago, I'm on the economic analyst stream if that helps. I imagine that different departments are quicker or slower depending on certain things, for some reason my email from the GES said that my department would contact me in a few days/weeks but they beat them to it.

What is the orientation session? I have received an invite to FSAC but heard nothing about an orientation session...?

Thanks. Any idea how many places there were for DaT last year and how many got accepted?

Hi, my orientation was scheduled for the beginning of December but i couldnt attend and my FSAC is booked in for 27th of Feb, so quite a gap

Anyone here studying for a graduate degree right now while applying for the fast stream?

I didn't pass the e-Tray unfortunately. Does anyone have any advice on how to (or not) approach this task?

I found the practice etray extremely helpful - gave me a good idea of the kind of responses the system was looking for, even though they did not seem logical to me at times... And make sure you don't overthink it, I lost a lot of time on a couple of questions where I tried to double guess myself.

Do you have any ideas on where it could have gone wrong for you?

Yeah, I did that and found it quite helpful. Did you do any other preparation? Trying to take in all the information wasn't easy. They told me I got 68% for the e-tray, although they wouldn't divulge the pass mark, it's difficult to see how I could get much higher without fine tuning/hands-on experience of a similar role.

Hi,
I believe the pass marks vary not only from one stream to another but also within the same stream as well. May I ask which stream you have applied for?