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Before you ask any question here please search the forums. The great majority of what you will ask has already been asked ? a hundred times!
Secondly have a look at the articles section. Many people will have invested a lot of time to write them and they may help you up to a certain point before you go on to ask a question. The rule here is ?first help yourself? ? we are happy to help ? we are just not going to do it all for you!
The reason that many of you are here is to ask for help and advice. That is great, there are many people here who will be glad to offer you lots of advice and help. Before you act on advice though, ask yourself ?Is this person qualified to answer this question?? Other people may add comments and they are perhaps not even cadets, let alone cadets in training, qualified officers or ex officers. Weigh up what advice you have been given. Whilst the advice may be free don?t make the mistake of thinking it has no value. Some of the advice here may be crucial in getting you through an application, to an interview, through induction, the first college phase or even your first sea phase. People even ask questions on here in their final exam phases!
Now you have to do something ? Thank those that helped you. If they have answered a simple question or been helpful in some way look at the bottom left of their post and click on the ?thanks? button. This is just a simple case of good manners.
I have had some completely opposite experiences on here. Sometimes I have rewritten CV?s or spent hours on the phone talking people through interview techniques. I have had potential cadets have half a dozen coaching sessions round at my house. Sometimes the first time I hear that they have been successful is when they post on the forum! Bad Form in my opinion.
The other side of the experience was tonight. A potential cadet, who has had help with his CV, applications and interviews rings me and asks me what I drink as he wants to thank me for my help. My response? ?Pay it forwards?. By that I mean ?Thank you so much for recognising what I have done to help. I am pleased to help, my reward is seeing people getting their dream job but the only payment I would like is for you to put the same effort into helping someone else in the future.? I am sure that all the other people on here that help feel the same way. It left me feeling all warm and fuzzy?.. Thank you.
So ? let?s have a thread of thanks. If you get a bit of help in a post then please thank the poster by clicking on the ?Thanks? button bottom left. If someone has really helped and gone ?above and beyond? then shout about it in this thread and let people know in what way and how much they helped you.
Thank you,
Ian
Secondly have a look at the articles section. Many people will have invested a lot of time to write them and they may help you up to a certain point before you go on to ask a question. The rule here is ?first help yourself? ? we are happy to help ? we are just not going to do it all for you!
The reason that many of you are here is to ask for help and advice. That is great, there are many people here who will be glad to offer you lots of advice and help. Before you act on advice though, ask yourself ?Is this person qualified to answer this question?? Other people may add comments and they are perhaps not even cadets, let alone cadets in training, qualified officers or ex officers. Weigh up what advice you have been given. Whilst the advice may be free don?t make the mistake of thinking it has no value. Some of the advice here may be crucial in getting you through an application, to an interview, through induction, the first college phase or even your first sea phase. People even ask questions on here in their final exam phases!
Now you have to do something ? Thank those that helped you. If they have answered a simple question or been helpful in some way look at the bottom left of their post and click on the ?thanks? button. This is just a simple case of good manners.
I have had some completely opposite experiences on here. Sometimes I have rewritten CV?s or spent hours on the phone talking people through interview techniques. I have had potential cadets have half a dozen coaching sessions round at my house. Sometimes the first time I hear that they have been successful is when they post on the forum! Bad Form in my opinion.
The other side of the experience was tonight. A potential cadet, who has had help with his CV, applications and interviews rings me and asks me what I drink as he wants to thank me for my help. My response? ?Pay it forwards?. By that I mean ?Thank you so much for recognising what I have done to help. I am pleased to help, my reward is seeing people getting their dream job but the only payment I would like is for you to put the same effort into helping someone else in the future.? I am sure that all the other people on here that help feel the same way. It left me feeling all warm and fuzzy?.. Thank you.
So ? let?s have a thread of thanks. If you get a bit of help in a post then please thank the poster by clicking on the ?Thanks? button bottom left. If someone has really helped and gone ?above and beyond? then shout about it in this thread and let people know in what way and how much they helped you.
Thank you,
Ian
xxx
unfortunately that won't affect the guinnessman, maybe I should make sure it's a weekday and about as far from the border as possible
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