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Hot off the rumour mill today, B grades are being re boarded as the have surpassed all the A and B+ candidates. Has the rumour got any foundations to it?
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ATM Sgt - Chief
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Not really a shock, who wants to stay in anymore? if your not in a posting of your choice you can easily get a 30-40k job in civvy strasse plus pension. They really need to wake up to this as they are running out of trained Engineering personnel. The new pay structure in 2016 is going to be too little too late.
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I can confirm that the CT to FS board has exhausted the A candidates but as for boarding B grades I don't know.
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I live in hope............thought they would have to sit another Board to sort out the Bs though?
Unless its somewhere you want to go you might as well turn it down. This has always been the problem with the CT rank under pay 2000, topping out straight away on the FS pay so the posting could actually cost you money living in the mess or commuting and a wanky job to boot? no thanks. no wonder they rattled through the A grades.
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I do know what you mean - last 2 postings on promotion were Kinloss & Wyton. Once NEM pay sorted, there will be a few more pay increments after promotion.
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Posted to A400, Voyager? Why bother. PVR and earn more as a civvy doing the same job
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Did they have to reboard or do they just carry on the list. Do B grades get a positional number? I know that the manning site was showing just 62 A grades.
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62 A grades dues to the low prediction. New board sits next week, Prediction 82. If I don't get it this year after 8 years of 'Highs' I might as well kick back with my pipe and slippers
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Have many turned it down or have many more FS than expected left?
Either way, promoting B grades will only place individuals in higher ranks when they are not yet ready.
This seems to happen a lot in TG1 - perhaps this time many really are jumping ship to these highly paid jobs they talk about.
Either way, promoting B grades will only place individuals in higher ranks when they are not yet ready.
This seems to happen a lot in TG1 - perhaps this time many really are jumping ship to these highly paid jobs they talk about.
Promotion rec has little, if any, influence on the PSB, it's all down to the write up.
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And that shows that one person's career can be dependant on another persons ability to write - TOTALLY WRONG !!
The annual assessment is an RAF wide survey to find the best people suitable for promotion and other peoples skills should not come into it.
It should be done with questions and tick boxes with weighted answers preferably completed by 3 reporters then averaged.
Apologies for jumping on another trades thread however, I completley agree with you and don't think your idea is too far of the mark for what we should be doing.
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I'm only to well aware of that now after asking the UCA when I was still a B Grade after 5 years. Turns out the guy writing my SJARs was flagged up as incompetent and ordered onto an SJAR writing course. I never realised how important taking control of your own SJAR was until I'd wasted 5 of them. I should have 3 good ones backing me up this year.
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It seems absolutely stupid that they take a flawed system, realise that people have problems with it and then send them on a course to make them better at using that very same flawed system.
We have an FS at our Sqn that has been promoted and they can't replace him! A CT has had to accept acting rank to fill his post as quite a few chiefs have turned the offer down!! No increase in pension and the difference between CT top level and FS level is not worth the hassle of a posting/living in the mess etc as has already been said.
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If I remember correctly there was a field of 67...7 declined, 15 PVRd or life-x....for Chf Tech there's a 17% ET rate, much higher than other ranks which are at historical norms.
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And that's the services solution to everything - someone isn't very good at something, send them on a course, problem solved. Yes it might help them to stop making boner errors, but a command of the English language isn't something you gain overnight, some otherwise very good people never really master the skill.
As has been previously said, it should be seen as a priority to find a system that eliminates the penmanship skills of the ROs as a variable in the promotion hunt.