Your First 90 Days as an Administrative Officer

YOUR FIRST 90 DAYS AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER

A Practical Guide to Policy, Analysis and Working Life in the Irish Civil Service

You do not need every acronym before you can make a useful contribution. Learn to understand the question, find dependable evidence and turn it into work colleagues can use.

Follow Ciara through her first three months in an Irish Civil Service policy team, with specialist, operational and supervisory perspectives included.

Inside:

- Clarify an assignment and agree useful expectations with your manager.

- Find sources, assess research and explain what the evidence can support.

- Check calculations, denominators and combined percentages.

- Write an evidence note, options briefing and concise recommendation.

- Prepare for meetings and record decisions and actions.

- Handle competing requests, feedback and mistakes.

- Complete a small project and review progress at 30, 60 and 90 days.

- Use eight adaptable worksheets and a worked briefing-under-pressure exercise.

- Find a plain-English glossary and seven official source links.

Full examples include brief-back emails, management conversations, a correction message, meeting records and completed review notes.

Includes a 59-page PDF and reflowable EPUB, approximately 11,600 words including source notes and excluding embedded font notices. Worksheets are text prompts for copying into a permitted work document or printing; they are not interactive forms.

Independent practical guidance for Civil Service AOs. Your appointment terms, departmental policies and actual assignment govern formal matters.

Price: EUR 5.00. Includes PDF and EPUB.