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Cadetships 2013
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IrishFeeney92 wrote: »The way it worked when I last went for it anyways was,
You stay in the Curragh for a night, do your fitness test and they give you a presentation on what cadet life is like, after you become an officer etc.
You get to have a chat with the current cadet class and see them doing certain exercises.
Then the group assessment comes. This is more about judging how you effectively communicate with others. You are given a situation on a piece of paper. an area/location and a mission. You are then told to discuss it amongst yourselves, come up with a suitable plan and vote 1 person to pitch it back to the officer in charge.
During this process every person in the group is assigned an officer to judge your communication skills (mine was a captain) Its not really about demonstrating military knowledge, although it always helps, rather than how you speak to others, when you form a plan do you go back on it, if so why etc. (this was my downfall I believe) and they also judge time keeping and a big thing would be who nominates themselves to read out the plan in front of all the officers
It can be quite intimidating, A room full of High Ranking officers assessing your every move, but I bottled it when I went in. That was my mistake. Ive learned from it now. Wont make it again
Sound advice. I believe the exercise has changed from the old scenario. However, unless the format has changed dramatically (it sounds like it has not) then base your plan only off the information that's given.
There's always someone who dreams up some scenario with helicopters, airstrikes and all sorts of daft stuff that is never mentioned in the exercise.
Don't make assumptions, base your group decisions off the facts at hand. It's not really about how realistic your plan is but how well you work in a team, communicate and demonstrate leadership.
You can do this by listening to everyone carefully, not butting in or immediately shooting down ideas, trying to involve the quieter members of the group (e.g. 'Joe Bloggs, does this sound ok to you?') and being polite but clear when you disagree e.g. 'I appreciate your thoughts on this, how ever my concerns are x, y, z'.0 -
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Ardennes1944 wrote: »Good luck to those doing the Air Corps fitness test in the morning. Hopefully we all pass
You can't all pass
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goldie fish wrote: »You can't all pass
they can ALL pass. but not all can progress. who is to say you don't get a few hundred super fit people.
the competition section has to then decide who goes through0 -
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tomato1988 wrote: »did the edge of the matt help as leverage for you feet when doing the situps?
Didn't actually need to in the end! I was doing the sit ups much harder than required, I was going back to rest position each time
Hard luck Colm!0 -
Ardennes1944 wrote: »Didn't actually need to in the end! I was doing the sit ups much harder than required, I was going back to rest position each time
Hard luck Colm!
Thanks, hope to see you walking around the base next year. Best of luck with the rest of it and everybody else.0 -
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Ardennes1944 wrote: »He was from Cork too. If I'm going to get one of the places I don't need to be an asshole about it, I'll get in on my innate skills alone
Do you know something the rest of us don't know?0 -
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Ardennes1944 wrote: »He was from Cork too. If I'm going to get one of the places I don't need to be an asshole about it, I'll get in on my innate skills alone
That's not even admirable, man.0 -
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