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North Wales police applications starting

ben — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:59:55 +0000

Here is an update on what we have heard re North Wales Police applications and assessments:

2 days ago the force open recruitment for internal staff with a closing date of 30th November. There is currently a countdown marker on NWP website until this coming Monday (21st November), where recruitment will be extended to members of the public with a closing date of December 5th. The assessments for applicants who are successful with the application form will we hear start week commencing 16th January2012 at a centre in Coventry (which will probably be Ryton).

To accommodate this, we have puta course on our site for Mold, near Chester for early January 2012. We have also put extra copies of our book on Amazons shelves, as they got down to one or two copies recently.

South Wales police assessments Jan 2012

ben — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:58:04 +0000

In answer to the South Wales assessments due in Jan 2012 we will be running a course at the St.Mellons hotel in Cardiff on Dec 3rd. We always get a good turnout for the welsh forces. Last time we were there, we had about forty or fifty people who we trained in the end. I imagine we will do the same this time around. I understand that this time the job will be inviting many internal people. yet again, this is another example of in an environment where everyone is from a similar background, how do you differentiate yourself? Being a PCSO or specila will not be any advantage, as everyone else at the assessment centre will be too.

In Lancashire last month, we trained up about thirty people, and would expect that of those, at least 25 pass. That may be even more however this time around, as one needs to be in mind that the people invited to assessment tend to be of a higher quality than normal by definition of the fact they are already in the job.

Preston Police Course October 2011

ben — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:02:08 +0000

This course is now nearly fully booked, due to the impending Lancashire police assessments starting the last week in October. If you are thinbking of doing our assessment training, it is worth while booking now. We need to have a certain ratio of trainers to students, so once we reach that number we will have no choice but to close applications. One to one study sessions are still availiable however. Remeber that this time around, everyone else in your group will be either a special, CSO or member of police support staff. So, being in one of those groups will not mark you out as anything special at assessment. You will need to stand out, getting a pass may not be sufficient.

Metropolitan Police recruitment

john — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:17:05 +0000

It will be an interesting set of assessments for the Met this time around. Normally, in any set of candidates, there is a good mix of age, education and life experience. Many out of this group will manage to deselct themselves at assessment. Interestingly however, with the Met recruiting exclusively from its Specials, PCSO’s and support staff, many of these difefernces in candidates backgrounds will disappear. So, almost everyone will have police experience in one form or another. All will be telling the same kind of stories, have the same backgrounds, and probably be of similar ability. Having a police background will not make you stand out, or give you an advantage in the way you deal with something, as everyone else will have the same background. In a world where everyone is special, nobody is. The key thing this time around will be to stand out (in a positive way of course). Being good was never good enough before. this time around, being good will probably mean that you are only average. The key as ever is to prepare. Once Boris has spent his money on this campaign, it will be a long time before the Met recruits again.

Civil and Nuclear police recruiting until August

ben — Sat, 07 May 2011 15:07:23 +0000

CNC are recruiting for new constables, based at Sellafield in Cumbria. The closing date is august, although we are sure that they will get loads of applications from others who would normally have looked at Cumbria Police. If interested, apply now, as we feel as soon as they get enough applications they will close applications.