Well I've now had 18 applications that have been unsuccessful over a period of nearly a year, nailing it I know
Many of them have come through fairly quickly as application unsuccessful but 7 have at least progressed to "application under consideration for assessment 2" before then being "unsuccessful" which makes me believe that maybe my SHL results aren't that terrible, but possibly that my CV and answers to the 69 questions aren't entirely upto scratch. I have tweaked and changed a few of my answers in the 69 questions section several times but my CV is something I have not changed at all since first starting my journey to be a Signaller. My CV is something I've always been quite confident with purely because in the last 10 years its secured 3 decent jobs which weren't easy to get, I like a challenge and cracking the Signallers selection process is one that even after 18 rejections I am thoroughly enjoying and sinking my teeth into. But I feel its time to be more honest with myself and maybe my CV isn't as well put as I think it is. Confidence can be blinding sometimes and I wish I looked at it sooner as possible problem.
I'm going to tweak everything this time, I thought I had put together as good an application as I possibly could, but evidently something isn't working, so needs must and an entire re-evaluation of my efforts is needed to properly make sure I'm doing everything I can to better my chances against some stiff competition, clearly.
My working background in the last 10 years has entirely been in safety critical work environments, I've even managed people under such conditions, maybe I'm just not selling myself enough, either way I sure will be in future apps. I've still got 3 apps under review to see if I've reached the benchmark, but no matter how many rejections I've had I'm still super excited for news and getting that email.
To all those hopefuls currently trying, or think they are trying, are you really giving 100%, are you putting pretty much everything into it? if so then its not good enough, pretty much everything needs to be just "everything" to stand any chance of beating the competition, at least thats how I feel.