RCMP Will Not Meet Recruiting Goal

[chanman]

The RCMP has a lot of competition for candidates; at the SFU Career Days this year, in addition to the RCMP, the Vancouver, Abbotsford, Translink, and Lethbridge (Found that one a little odd) police forces had booths out.  The VPD folks mentioned they needed around 100 more officers in the next two years.

 

[IrishCanuck]

They'll be getting an application from myself here shortly .. soon as I get that grand ol'piece of paper from my fancy book learnin' school.

Hopefully my CBSA experience will help.

But it's true, at the public sector career fair I saw:

RCMP
OPP
Peel Regional
TPS
OPS

So it's safe to say if you are qualified... never been a better time. Quite the far cry from the 90's when it was next to impossible to get on.

 

[rw4th]

Not only is there a lot of competition for candidates, but the failure rate at the polygraph is somewhere near 80%. I know I got deferred for stupid shit. It's stupid shit that I can't argue with and that if I had half of brain I would of resolved BEFORE reaching that stage, but it's stupid none the less. The most frustrating part is that they are things I had indicated in the booklet and they even called me to confirm the details on a few of them. They still brought me in for the polygraph, and I didn't add anything.

From the looks of things, I think that after all the recent scandals they have raised their morality bar a little too high. People with life experience have more often then not gained that experience by making mistakes and doing stupid things.