ratherbesurfing
Career Recruiter
No. As previously mentioned, IDC is not an NRC priority. Your OR might be on leave, TAD or just plain busy. I'd give it a week more then call. We're not pushing any deadlines for this board so be patient.
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September 2014 IDC Board
- Thread starter IWhopeful
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ratherbesurfing
Career Recruiter
Way to keep the conversation going.
ratherbesurfing
Career Recruiter
I would look at applying for the Reserves. Might be able to go active later.
FormerRecruitingGuru
Making Recruiting Great Again
It's the end of the FY and most ORs are busy closing out end of year admin/items. Also there's due dates approaching for Pilot/NFO, SWO, and Supply boards.
IWhopeful
Active Member
I'm going with Thursday, 1300 release. I got a feelin'.
RescueSwimmer19USN
Active Duty Navy SAR Crewman
Taking potshots at another community from the sidelines, that's just the kind of Officer we're looking for. Pause not.
psulaw0929
OCS Class 04-16, 27 SEP 2015
That's not what I meant at all. I didn't mean that aviation candidates are notoriously bad writers, that doesn't even make sense. The point was that I was looking for sample motivational statements to reference. Most of the ones I found on this aviation-heavy website (i.e., airwarriors) were written by aviation candidates. Some of them were poorly written or did not follow the comments I've read provided by ORs on this website. Then I mentioned that they received Pro-Recs despite these motivational statements, establishing an irony. When I stated "they were all aviation candidates," the point was that motivational statements don't seem to be as important of a component of the aviators' packages compared to the weight I've read that they carry with IDC packages. The correlation being that, despite people writing what I would consider a poor motivational statement and receiving pro-recs, I don't need to completely go against everything I've read and have been told about writing a motivational statement to make it more reflective of the poor ones I've read because their receiving a pro-rec with that motivational statement isn't indicative of anything.
But speaking of "taking potshots from the sidelines," way to come out of nowhere @RescueSwimmer19USN to make a dig at my comment without really understanding it and just making the most negative possible interpretation you could. I appreciate you finally deciding to comment on our thread and contributing absolutely nothing. "Pause not."
ratherbesurfing
Career Recruiter
What you have observed in the threads of other designator is the product of a whole person concept and at the end of the day the Navy still has accession goals to make. We select the best qualified out of each board for the number of open quotas. Aviation is wide open generally speaking because it has such a high washout rate. Ironically enough, those that washout from these programs are already commissioned and so are offered the chance to go home and serve out their contract as IRR, or redesignate to an open field for which they qualify. What this means for us is that the Navy doesn't always need selection boards to fill IDC quotas.
psulaw0929
OCS Class 04-16, 27 SEP 2015
That makes sense. I know there is a need for aviators. I only meant that I've heard the board looks more at things like ASTB scores for aviators. I'm glad that despite a lot of in-house hiring for IDC (which is what I'm assuming you meant when you said the Navy doesn't always need boards to fill IDC) that there are boards to fill what few spots are available, giving us a chance.
ratherbesurfing
Career Recruiter
Exactly
exNavyOffRec
Well-Known Member
I can tell you as a former OR he is right, I used to joke about this with applicants going for other designators that they had to have a top notch motivational statement and they couldn't rely on the ASTB like the aviation guys, I can't tell you how many aviation applications I have seen get selected with very marginal motivational statements, hell I have had guys picked up with one paragraph motivational statements, but they all had great ASTB scores, and some of this was with a 25% selection rate!
It is the ASTB that is king with aviation, not so with other designators.
PensacolaBayou
Well-Known Member
I have a question for fleet folks, when the results are released will only you and your OR know your Pro-Rec decision? I am wondering if non-fleet applicants are able to check and see some master list made available to the fleet but only trickles down to us civilians a week later. Does the fleet notification system list all Pro-Rec decisions or just the individual account and their recruiter?
ratherbesurfing
Career Recruiter
First off, for us fleet guys, we do not have a recruiter or anyone really advocating for us. Could be it's just a Seabee thing though where we aren't given any real help. I'd love to hear otherwise. I get the impression if you're smart enough to figure out the application process then you can apply. If not, nobody is there to make sure you've hit all the wickets. Fleet processors are awesome but very busy so that's as good as it gets. By the way, from an OR and fleet applicant perspective, civilian applications are 10 x's easier than a fleet applicant. Be appreciative. I'm sorry I digress...
We do have career counselors who have the same access to the results via Bupers Online but the results are only for those selected from our specific commands. NRC should release results to each NRD at the same time where it will include ALL selects and will list the NRD that submitted the application. The only difference is us fleet guys check every 10 minutes where your recruiter might not check for a couple days after results are posted. Hope that helps.
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