CountDC
Army.ca Veteran
- Reaction score
- 421
- Points
- 960
Congrats on completing the course. If you practice and hone the skills learned future courses will be easy. Keep up with pub searches - they are a big part of every course.
Manual pay is easy if you take the time and double check your work.
Everything on my practical (exam) was critical and took the entire morning, 2 errors and you failed. That included incorrectly writing the name (it is Mc not Mac!). The pass mark was dropped though within 2 years as a clerk working for me did the 3's with a 70% pass mark. I liked the higher standard as I believe pay is way to important to have people making lots of mistakes on. At 70% it means you can screw up 30 out of every 100 people you take care of.
The 1.5 hours is what they are talking about changing it to. Hopefully that will never happen but is out there being considered.
How many of those on your course will actually retain the skill is another matter. Most forget within a year as they do the dump after the test. I asked several new clerks over the last 2 years if they covered manual pay and half didn't even remember it being on their course and only one knew how to do it.
In fairness to the new clerks I put the blame back on the leadership in the trade. It is not the students that have lowered the standards. It is not the new clerk at the unit that assigns the work or organizes training. We use to take the time to randomly assign things to the junior clerks to keep the skills fresh. Nothing wrong with asking the clerk to look up something in the pubs even though you already have the answer, type a memo for you instead of doing it yourself or calculate a pay. Of course you will always get the old - we are too busy excuse. Seems some of the leadership has forgotten that part of leading is developing those working for them.
Good luck on finding a class b - unfortunately I was not able to convince them to backfill my spot with a reservist while I am gone otherwise I would recommend it.
Manual pay is easy if you take the time and double check your work.
Everything on my practical (exam) was critical and took the entire morning, 2 errors and you failed. That included incorrectly writing the name (it is Mc not Mac!). The pass mark was dropped though within 2 years as a clerk working for me did the 3's with a 70% pass mark. I liked the higher standard as I believe pay is way to important to have people making lots of mistakes on. At 70% it means you can screw up 30 out of every 100 people you take care of.
The 1.5 hours is what they are talking about changing it to. Hopefully that will never happen but is out there being considered.
How many of those on your course will actually retain the skill is another matter. Most forget within a year as they do the dump after the test. I asked several new clerks over the last 2 years if they covered manual pay and half didn't even remember it being on their course and only one knew how to do it.
In fairness to the new clerks I put the blame back on the leadership in the trade. It is not the students that have lowered the standards. It is not the new clerk at the unit that assigns the work or organizes training. We use to take the time to randomly assign things to the junior clerks to keep the skills fresh. Nothing wrong with asking the clerk to look up something in the pubs even though you already have the answer, type a memo for you instead of doing it yourself or calculate a pay. Of course you will always get the old - we are too busy excuse. Seems some of the leadership has forgotten that part of leading is developing those working for them.
Good luck on finding a class b - unfortunately I was not able to convince them to backfill my spot with a reservist while I am gone otherwise I would recommend it.
