Civil Service Assisted Return to Career (ARC) Programme
Irish Civil Service (DPER, with Career Returners) Ireland
A six-month full-time paid returnship in the Irish Civil Service at Higher Executive Officer grade in finance and accounting, HR or ICT, for people out of work for at least two years, with a closed competition for permanent Civil Service posts.
Free to start · no account needed
Get a returner résumé, a cover letter and a career-break note for this programme, drafted from your own résumé in about two minutes.
You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.
About
Also: six-month full-time paid returnship; Higher Executive Officer grade; closed competition for permanent Civil Service roles.
Who can apply: Time out of work of at least two years. Roles in Finance and Accounting, Human Resources and ICT. Not open to current civil servants on a career break.
Free to apply.
Recurring competition; the next round will be published on publicjobs.ie (no date posted yet).
How to apply: through publicjobs (you need an account there).
What to prepare: online application.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-31): “where the next competition for this programme will be published”
Who can apply
- Open to working professionals, people in a career transition
- Time out of work of at least two years. Roles in Finance and Accounting, Human Resources and ICT. Not open to current civil servants on a career break.
What you will need
- Application form answersOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (publicjobs), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get a returner résumé, a cover letter and a career-break note for this programme, drafted from your own résumé in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Irish Civil Service (DPER, with Career Returners) without your tap.
Nothing is submitted without your tap. Logins, CAPTCHAs, payments and interviews stay with you.