OPEN UP MY EAGER EYES

Interviews 2 and 3 were taken care of in one interview I had on Monday. Didn't really feel like an interview, more just talking about myself. Passed fine. 

Next up was Maths and English tests, both of which were dead simple, passed with top marks on each, so Level 2 on both, as I hoped! 

Was told I'd get loaded onto an ADSC date within 48 hours ish but haven't heard anything back yet - rang up my recruiter and he said they hadn't got back to him yet, but other people who've had their interview after me have already got their dates! Oh well. 

I had Pre-ADSC last Wednesday. Was a bit of a rush as the train line I was going to be travelling on had had a landslide on it so I had to get a bus. When I arrived in Grantham we were given numbered bibs. First thing to get out of the way was the 1.5 mile run, which I don't actually know the time I ran it in (annoyed) however I know I came 3rd (was 1st up until the last 100m), and I'm damn proud of that. 

Next up was the Team Tasks, which I think I did okay in but I didn't get really get that involved in as most of my time was spent thinking... Oops. Went back inside the classrooms for our Icebreakers, and to be quite honest some of the other candidates icebreakers really weren't good. I think I did mine well, however froze for a second when I was up in front of everyone and forgot everything I was going to say (not good). 

We had lunch which was actually quite nice but it was pretty awkward as we had to walk past all the regs in our coloured bibs and it was pretty embarrassing. :') After lunch we had a debrief, which my recruiting Sgt told me I did pretty well so I was happy with that.

Rang up the ACIO today to find out about spaces on my job choices, turns out there's currently 15 A grades on the waiting list for Aircraft Technician with only 7 spaces left at Pirbright in July and 6 spaces left at Winchester in October, so if I want that job I'm going to have to be on the top of my game at ADSC - which I can do. My second choices (Communications Systems Engineer) has 50 spaces of which 21 are already filled, so it sounds like a good second choice.

Rang up the careers office yesterday morning to confirm my attendance to pre-ADSC. Train tickets have been ordered and I'm drafting up a rough idea of what I think I'm going to say in my icebreaker (the talk I have to do to other candidates about myself and my interests). Just training hard to get my run time down, at best effort it's probably about 10 mins 30 seconds now, which was my goal originally but I'm aiming for sub 10 minutes now. I'm meeting with my recruiter on Wednesday morning to talk about a couple of queries I've got about my job preferences and such and we'll see how it goes from there.

So talk of the devil. Today I got a letter through the door saying my medical documents got passed and that the next stage is for me to attend a pre-selection day at Grantham on the 13th February. Got to ring up the careers office to confirm my attendance and then go in to get my train tickets and joining instructions. Exciting stuff. Gotta keep working on my fitness and run time, managed to get it down to 10mins 30secs (which was my goal) yesterday, but it doesn't stop there.