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The Talking Blues book now on Amazon!

john — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:00:31 +0000

Our book, “The Talking Blues guide to passing the police recuitment process”, has now been formally published by Howtobecome books. (Note this is an entirely diffeernt book from the course manual we use on our seminars). You can buy it from Amazon, Waterstones and all good bookshops, as they say. The list price is £12.99, but Amazon are selling it at the time of writing for £8.44

We are no longer selling the book or the CD therefore direct from our site. We are currently getting our site updated.

We promise you it is by far and away the best bok on the market!

Regards

Bristol course for Avon and Somerset Police

ben — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:56:19 +0000

For those applying to A and S, you may be interested in the above date. We have heard rumours that A and S are really going to be tough in these assessments, as they are looking to cut down on the numbers they are recruiting. Now is a great time to make sure that you do not just pass the assessment, but that you get a high score to lessen the risk of being filtered out.

Gwent Assessments

ben — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:09:30 +0000

Just an update. The St.Mellons course is now confirmed to go ahead, and will be great timing for the assessments in September, with a fair bit of inside information that someone has been sharing with us! As of today, we only now have a couple of places left, so book, or if in doubt call us on the out of hours number on 07754673540.

If you are still undecided about attending, have a look at the below comments:

Afternoon John,

Just thought I would send you an E-mail to thank you and your colleagues so much for the course held at Southampton on Saturday 26/6/10. The information gained on the day proved so valuable at my assessment centre three weeks later!

I have just had my results back and passed with 68%, so am very pleased indeed. I am sure that without taking part in the Talking Blues Course, I would not have passed, even after reading the many books available on the recruitment process.

On the day, I felt much more confident and felt I was much more prepared than many of the other candidates there, who appeared to struggle much more with the role plays and interview.

Thank you once again and I will not hesitate to recommend the course to anyone in the future.

Best Regards

” Afternoon John,

Just thought I would send you an E-mail to thank you and your colleagues so much for the course held at XX on XX. The information gained on the day proved so valuable at my assessment centre three weeks later!

I have just had my results back and passed with 66%, so am very pleased indeed. I am sure that without taking part in the Talking Blues Course, I would not have passed, even after reading the many books available on the recruitment process.

On the day, I felt much more confident and felt I was much more prepared than many of the other candidates there, who appeared to struggle much more with the role plays and interview.

Thank you once again and I will not hesitate to recommend the course to anyone in the future.

Best Regards”

Remember, we do not ask for the course fee balance until the end of the day, and if you do not feel it was worth it, then do not pay us, that is how confident we are that you will be impressed with the course.

How confident are you that you will pass?

Cardiff Course August 22nd 2010

ben — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:21:41 +0000

We still have four places left for the Cardiff course on August 22nd at the St.Mellons Hotel in cardiff. If you have an assessment coming up in that patr of the world, we promise you tha the course will give you a huge advantage. Remeber as well that it is not just a matter of passing the assessment centre. Chances are that the forces there will cherry pick the top scores at assessment to offer places to first. Being offered a place first is important. Following the Comprehensive Spending Review in october, there is a good chance that later intakes will be put on hold. So, even if you are confident you would pass, are you confident that you will rank high enough?

On a different note, had a great course in Leeds yesterday (14th August). Good bunch of guys and girls, and all of them did fine, although all needed a few tweaks. That is the whole point of the course naturally!

To those lucky few who have assessments coming up, remember that competition will be evn more fierce. Get revising!

Regards

Police Assessment Open evenings

ben — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:11:25 +0000

We have had a few people this week asking us whether our courses are simply telling people what the official police open evenings do. Notts police for example are running open evenings. Whilst we would encourage going to one of these to show willing, they are pretty worthless. The suggestion our courses are just like the official police ones is so far from the truth that we actually cover it under the “Five reasons not to use us” button on the Talking Blues website. However, I have reproduced the text below:

“My force recruitment team/a bobby I know has told me I do not need to do a private course. A private company will not tell me any more than I would find out on the force recruitment evening I did when I got my application form. They are just charging me for something I can find out for free.”

If it is a police recruiting officer telling you not to bother with us, consider this. The recruiters do not want prepped up candidates, they want to see you as you are. Prepped up candidates mean more people pass, which makes the assessors job harder. It is not in the recruiter’s interest for you to do a course as there is a much greater chance of you passing, and they will not care about your interest.

Interestingly though, police recruiters sometimes say that you will get told the same information at a free force recruitment seminar than you will at one of our courses. We always smile at this. To begin with, we guarantee that the person saying it will not have been on a Talking Blues course, so how do they know this to be true? We are also unaware of any police force using a specially written 160 page manual like ours. But think about this logically.

The job of the police recruitment department is to select the best candidates, NOT to help YOU as an individual pass. If the recruiters hold an open evening, then EVERYONE gets the same information (and it is usually generic rubbish anyway.) This means that by definition, YOU are no better off then everyone else. Talking Blues job is to make YOU the best candidate. As a commercial organisation, Talking Blues stands or falls by its ability to develop YOU so YOU PASS.

The average police recruitment evening will have at least fifty people there and last 2 hours. There will be almost NO interaction between YOU and the recruiters. Our police recruitment courses are designed to develop YOU as an individual, and for example during the role play session, will focus on YOU doing individual role-plays, with feedback specific to YOU. Our courses therefore have a trainer ratio on average of 1:7, and last ten hours. We have our money back on the day guarantee if you are not happy that you have benefited. It is nonsense for police recruiters to say that a recruitment open evening is the same as our course. As regards the fact we charge for helping you, the same argument could be applied to driving instructors. We have knowledge that you desire in order to gain a great career, and meeting that need is our business. Search the web for our company and you will see how well we meet that need.

Bottom line: of course our course is totally different from open evenings. Open evenings simply inform EVERYONE what the process involves. So there is no advataneg to be gained from them as an individual, as everyone is told what you are. Our professionally written course takes YOU as an individual and explains to you what YOU need to pass. The two things are categorically not the same!