I feel like there's a lot of confusion around what the boards are looking for, at least as far as word count is concerned, because the different boards give more or less weight to the motivational statement. Also, the civilian form doesn't give a word count suggestion, so then you have recruiters throwing out different word count suggestions. All this leads to a lot of confusion around what civilian applicants should be targeting.
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FY20 Oct. 28, 2019 SNA/NFO Board
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I feel like there's a lot of confusion around what the boards are looking for, at least as far as word count is concerned, because the different boards give more or less weight to the motivational statement. Also, the civilian form doesn't give a word count suggestion, so then you have recruiters throwing out different word count suggestions. All this leads to a lot of confusion around what civilian applicants should be targeting.
Thanos
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Mine never said that. It just said to use the space provided
That seems very frustrating regarding the board members and future applicants. Uniformity is the currency of the military and a lack of it stands out. Although, with roughly 19 active duty members on this last board, we probably had a very low impact.
KristenQT
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This comment is extremely misleading. What is your source? Did you "hear" from a guy who "heard" from another guy? Is the ARI limit set or "within a certain period"? Is it only ARI and not drug, legal etc.?
Exactly my thoughts. Pretty vague statement with no clarifying details. I'm interested to hear more.
NVRDNK
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“Yeah I did 10 years for that home invasion.”
“But you never got caught underage drinking right?”
“Nope!”
“Oh good! Just between us... you’ll definitely get selected...?“
1812TC
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My OR, Chief, spoke directly to the program manager, who stated and sent me the above quotations.
alikazmi9000
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Someone remind me again why we’re aiming for 155
We have very little to live for at the moment.
DefiningFire
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Lack of attention relative to active duty if they were told explicitly that? Sure. I think as someone else mentioned, there is a lack of uniformity for this part in terms of what the actual standard is and that is extremely frustrating. My personal statement form (as a civilian) had questions on it and it said to answer each with 4-6 sentences each. I don't think the issue is really any person being at fault for not following guidelines as much as it is there is a lack of clear and uniform guidelines for everyone and some people get misdirected or have to basically "wing it".
DefiningFire
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This statement even says to limit your response to each SECTION, not statement s a whole, to 200-250 words. My interpretation then is that you would have around 600-750 words following those guidelines.
Acsantosus
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So civilians don’t use the application from the 1420?
Acsantosus
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Each section means personal statement as one section and honor courage commitment as the second section. So 200-250 for each of those sections
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