Dear Users... (A thread for Sysadmin, Technical Support, and Help Desk people)

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Okay friends, I know you've been as much on the edge of your seats about this as I have been on mine. I heard back about the interview.

My interview was successful.

But.

There's always a but. This but is but there are more successful applicants than there are positions to fill. So I don't have the position. However, it is still a win for me, because I am now on a merit list for 12 months. During this time I can be offered any APS4-level position in Tech Services without an application or an interview. I would of course like a position here in the Service Desk because it's what I know and enjoy, but if I can get a permanency in another team, you bet I'll take it.

Furthermore, we are about to go through a massive MoG (Machinery of Government) shakeup because of this, so who knows what positions at this level may open up in a couple of months?

So for now, I'm not in the position I wanted but I'm not disappointed because I know that I am good enough for it.

And yeah, I'll be subtly hinting to the existing 4s here to think about advancing their careers too.
 
arthwollipot said:
Okay friends, I know you've been as much on the edge of your seats about this as I have been on mine. I heard back about the interview.

My interview was successful.

But.

There's always a but. This but is but there are more successful applicants than there are positions to fill. So I don't have the position. However, it is still a win for me, because I am now on a merit list for 12 months. During this time I can be offered any APS4-level position in Tech Services without an application or an interview. I would of course like a position here in the Service Desk because it's what I know and enjoy, but if I can get a permanency in another team, you bet I'll take it.

Furthermore, we are about to go through a massive MoG (Machinery of Government) shakeup because of this, so who knows what positions at this level may open up in a couple of months?

So for now, I'm not in the position I wanted but I'm not disappointed because I know that I am good enough for it.

And yeah, I'll be subtly hinting to the existing 4s here to think about advancing their careers too.
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If there are no openings the logical course is to make some. Does this workplace have shared coffee pots? The second statement is unrelated to the first, and neither are related to the ubiquity of toxic plant life globally and in your region particularly. I'm certainly not suggesting the course of action you're thinking of, wink wink.
 
arthwollipot said:
Okay friends, I know you've been as much on the edge of your seats about this as I have been on mine. I heard back about the interview.

My interview was successful.

But.

There's always a but. This but is but there are more successful applicants than there are positions to fill. So I don't have the position. However, it is still a win for me, because I am now on a merit list for 12 months. During this time I can be offered any APS4-level position in Tech Services without an application or an interview. I would of course like a position here in the Service Desk because it's what I know and enjoy, but if I can get a permanency in another team, you bet I'll take it.

Furthermore, we are about to go through a massive MoG (Machinery of Government) shakeup because of this, so who knows what positions at this level may open up in a couple of months?

So for now, I'm not in the position I wanted but I'm not disappointed because I know that I am good enough for it.

And yeah, I'll be subtly hinting to the existing 4s here to think about advancing their careers too.
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While not perhaps the best possible result, it still sounds like you've gotten yourself into a good position, Congrats!

I'm a bit excited to be moving to a new job soon, myself :).

TragicMonkey said:
If there are no openings the logical course is to make some. Does this workplace have shared coffee pots? The second statement is unrelated to the first, and neither are related to the ubiquity of toxic plant life globally and in your region particularly. I'm certainly not suggesting the course of action you're thinking of, wink wink.
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From the mouths of babes... ;)
 
arthwollipot said:
Okay friends, I know you've been as much on the edge of your seats about this as I have been on mine. I heard back about the interview.

My interview was successful.

But.

There's always a but. This but is but there are more successful applicants than there are positions to fill. So I don't have the position. However, it is still a win for me, because I am now on a merit list for 12 months. During this time I can be offered any APS4-level position in Tech Services without an application or an interview. I would of course like a position here in the Service Desk because it's what I know and enjoy, but if I can get a permanency in another team, you bet I'll take it.

Furthermore, we are about to go through a massive MoG (Machinery of Government) shakeup because of this, so who knows what positions at this level may open up in a couple of months?

So for now, I'm not in the position I wanted but I'm not disappointed because I know that I am good enough for it.

And yeah, I'll be subtly hinting to the existing 4s here to think about advancing their careers too.
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They might phase up instead of you 4s bootstrapping.

Sort of thing.

No-one to be left behind.

(You probably helped users too.)

Well done for going for it.:thumbsup:
 
I have news!

Starting next week I'll be moving fully over on to Service Requests. From there they have a non-ongoing APS3 position to put me into, though we are on a recruitment pause right now because MoG. One of the TLs though - a 4 - is moving on to an APS5 position in Desktop Support in February, so that's going to open up a vacancy, and that is an ongoing position.

Things are definitely Looking Up.
 
arthwollipot said:
I have news!

Starting next week I'll be moving fully over on to Service Requests. From there they have a non-ongoing APS3 position to put me into, though we are on a recruitment pause right now because MoG. One of the TLs though - a 4 - is moving on to an APS5 position in Desktop Support in February, so that's going to open up a vacancy, and that is an ongoing position.

Things are definitely Looking Up.
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Enjoy the extra responsibility and the moolah that goes with it. :thumbsup:
 
arthwollipot said:
I have news!

Starting next week I'll be moving fully over on to Service Requests. From there they have a non-ongoing APS3 position to put me into, though we are on a recruitment pause right now because MoG. One of the TLs though - a 4 - is moving on to an APS5 position in Desktop Support in February, so that's going to open up a vacancy, and that is an ongoing position.

Things are definitely Looking Up.
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Congratulations! Now could you please explain the highlighted items.
 
xterra said:
Congratulations! Now could you please explain the highlighted items.
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That's fair.

The Australian Public Service (APS) has a system of classifying their staff according to their ability and experience. It starts with the APS classifications - APS1 at the bottom, APS6 at the top. Above that is Executive Level - EL1 and EL2. These are management positions and are generally section heads. My boss is an EL1. Above that you have the Special Executive Service who are in charge of whole divisions of a public service department.

I applied for, and was successful at attaining, an APS4 position. This is about the highest I can go without supervisory duties. My Team Leader (TL) (who is distinct from my boss) is an APS5. The higher the number, the higher the moolah, but also the higher the responsibility.

MoG stands for Machinery of Government. At the end of last year, Megablaze Morrison announced that, amongst other shakeups in the Public Service, the department of Education was going to merge with the department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business. These two departments are our biggest clients, and they're going to be mushed together. That means work. All of the work required to implement that change is characterised as part of the MoG.
 
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