UPDATE
Recruiting Center: Moncton
Regular/Reserve: Reg F
Officer/NCM: Officer (DEO re-enrollment)
Trade Choice 1: INT
Trade Choice 2: SIGS
Trade Choice 3: NONE
Application Date: 21 Jun 2006
Contacts:
- 30 Jun 2006, CFRC/D received my pers file.
- 3 Jul 2006, CFRC/D needed add'l info to request my med docs. I provided it immediately.
- 14 Jul 2006, Advised by CFRC/D that in order to be selected for INT I'd need to provide add'l information/certification, etc. I provided it to them the next day.
- 7 Sep 2006, Called by CFRC/D. My OMDs have arrived. Huzzah! Med and Interview scheduled.
Aptitude completed:
- Waived, in theory, but I've been advised I may be requested to write it again.
- 27 Sep 2006. CFAT is now officially waived. My prior scores qualified me for both INT and SIGS.
Med completed:
- 27 Sep 2006. Complete. No issues at all, no doctor's notes required.
Interview completed:
- 27 Sep 2006. Complete. A "grueling" one and a half hour interview. It went extremely well. I will be listed for both INT and SIGS although I've been advised that my odds for INT are slim. As it was put to me, the door is almost closed but it isn't quite locked. One issue, beyond not being very competitive for a very demanding board, is that the INT board sits after the DEO board so it seems probable that I'll get an offer for SIGS before the INT board even sits so I'd be taking a heck of a risk in turning down SIGS to wait it out for INT.
PT Test completed:
- 27 Sep 2006. Waived since the new directive 1 Oct 2006 makes it no longer necessary. Advised to continue training as CF Express will be done early in BOTC and failure will result in placement on a Warrior Platoon. I'm not at all worried about passing the test in Basic.
Position Offered: -
Enrollment Date: -
Basic Training: -
The INT board has looked at my application and has not selected me. With only 1 INT (Land) position left nationwide the odds of it going to me are essentially non-existant. On the advice of the CFRC I've changed my first selection to SIG and second to INT.
And here's where things enter the twilight zone...
First, I've been given an IAP bypass based on my experience and former military service
For those that know my situation, I'm as surprised as you are... this was very much unexpected. Beyond the obvious that I won't need to do IAP, the fringe benefit of this as it was explained to me is that I bypass board selection and can be selected locally by the production officer.
Second, I've been told that since I'm now first choice SIG I can bypass board selection that way as well, since it is an OSL occupation.
So net net, I should have been selected locally on two tracks as it was explained to me. I will confess, that I was very confused by the explanation and there is a very good chance that there is something I'm not getting.
So, here's the strangeness. The local production officer did in fact select me for SIG and requested a job offer allocation; however, they've hit a snag. Despite the fact that on two accounts I should bypass board selection, I was considered for SIG on the 14 Nov general service officer selection board and was not selected.
The mystery to the MCC and production officer is:
a) Why my file was considered at all by the general service officer selection board, since it is OSL and I have an IAP bypass, and hence it should be the production officer's choice?
b) Why I wasn't selected since I should have been pretty high on the list and the SIG officer occupation is pretty wide open?
The production officer is looking into it, and will let the MCC know who will then contact me. The MCC has said he'll either be contacting me with:
a) That something got borked and it shouldn't have gone to the board and so a job offer as SIG O.
b) That nothing was wrong, they misunderstood something, that my file should in fact go to the selection board and if it wasn't selected then it wasn't selected, in which case better luck in 12 Jan 2007 (the next board)
!!! WARNING !!! Take everything above with a grain of salt. The explanation first hand was very confusing so this second hand account is certainly doubly so. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you assume or take from this post that if you have an IAP bypass or SIG as your first choice that you don't need to go through the regular process. I'm not a recruiter. My word is not law. !!! WARNING !!!
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