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**Unregistered** · 14 April 2014, 04:48 PM

Originally posted by Unregistered View Post

Hi all! I have been accepted with Shell as a Deck Cadet and would like to know about the contract. From what I read, I am liable to pay up to 50K if I do not finish my cadetship. Is this only applicable if I get kicked out etc or if I don't quite make the grade and fail exams? Any advice is appreciated as it is a big scare to read something like this.
Thanks.

I'm not currently a cadet but I heard that if you fail your exams your company will basically kick you out without cost. So your not really trapped

**alistairuk** · 14 April 2014, 06:20 PM

It applies if you don't complete the cadet ship and receive your OOW CoC - regardless of the reason for not obtaining it.

**condeh** · 14 April 2014, 07:32 PM

I was a Shell cadet about 10yrs ago, out of the 10 of us, only 4 qualified, either through failing exams, quitting, or being sacked. No-one paid a penny.

I didn't realise Shell had a 'tie-in' now. I left after qualifying, they were very good about it.

**Unregistered** · 16 April 2014, 11:24 AM

I believe that if you fail your exams you do NOT have to pay anything back. However, if you get kicked out by the college or company then thats a different story but if you just don't manage to pass then you shouldn't have to pay anything back.

It would be helpful to have an actual company specify the rules!

**alistairuk** · 16 April 2014, 12:42 PM

If you fail the exams, you will be kicked out by the college. Welcome to the adult world.

**EH75** · 16 April 2014, 04:56 PM

Depends if they like you or not. The policy when I was a cadet was hilariously inconsistent. Know people who failed almost every exam we sat and many of them multiple times (5-6 times for example) and managed to get to the end. Whereas some people failed less exams and got fired. Was very strange.

**Benr42** · 17 April 2014, 12:41 PM

To be fair you will never know your company policy until something happens, nothing is ever clear as a cadet!!

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