One of the lads I work with is one of the very last Fast Trackers to have been admitted.
He is near the very end of the new "take a ticket" entry system to JATCC. At the entry rate at the moment its going to take 2-3 years for him to get on a course and he asked me what would be the consequences of a failure at the various stages for DE on his Fast Track JATCC acceptance.
He has not been recommended for promotion yet and this is still a stipulation for his entry (He has only just been promoted to SAC). To add further complication to the matter he has recently been charged.
I have told him nothing so far.
I had thought that, as with other applications from other Trades, a failure would mean reverting back to your previous role. But as a Fast tracker he would just go back onto the JATCC conveyor belt.
In these circumstances I could see him being streamed FOA, however, he has stated emphatically that this is not a career route he wishes to follow. So his choices as they stand at the moment appear to be,
1. Stay the Fast Track course, clean up his act, get a recommendation and enter JATCC in 2-3 years.
2. Find out whether he is still eligible and apply for DE and accept the consequences of potential failure and the impact that will have on his career.
He is a young, bright lad, who I think would be a succesful candidate. Not quite Sgt material yet, but Cranditz would probably knock some semblance of maturity into him. In his current role, it will still require a lot of effort on his part to prove to his assessor's that he deserves to be recommended for promotion.
I am personally leaning towards option 1. However, I will be asking around today, and hopefully may glean a nugget with which to give him some sound advice, but I thought it might be worth a punt on here too.
He is near the very end of the new "take a ticket" entry system to JATCC. At the entry rate at the moment its going to take 2-3 years for him to get on a course and he asked me what would be the consequences of a failure at the various stages for DE on his Fast Track JATCC acceptance.
He has not been recommended for promotion yet and this is still a stipulation for his entry (He has only just been promoted to SAC). To add further complication to the matter he has recently been charged.
I have told him nothing so far.
I had thought that, as with other applications from other Trades, a failure would mean reverting back to your previous role. But as a Fast tracker he would just go back onto the JATCC conveyor belt.
In these circumstances I could see him being streamed FOA, however, he has stated emphatically that this is not a career route he wishes to follow. So his choices as they stand at the moment appear to be,
1. Stay the Fast Track course, clean up his act, get a recommendation and enter JATCC in 2-3 years.
2. Find out whether he is still eligible and apply for DE and accept the consequences of potential failure and the impact that will have on his career.
He is a young, bright lad, who I think would be a succesful candidate. Not quite Sgt material yet, but Cranditz would probably knock some semblance of maturity into him. In his current role, it will still require a lot of effort on his part to prove to his assessor's that he deserves to be recommended for promotion.
I am personally leaning towards option 1. However, I will be asking around today, and hopefully may glean a nugget with which to give him some sound advice, but I thought it might be worth a punt on here too.
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DT_Xtremez_42: attitude adjustment is needed.