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Old 25th Apr 2014, 12:54
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muppetofthenorth
 
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RAF Careers office tells people "bar is being lowered" for entry.

Am I right to think this is an idiotic way of presenting news about recruitment?

From a different forum, one aimed at students:
After a long period where RAF jobs seemed to be unavailable and you were more than likely to be told your chosen career was closed for application, most of the RAF branches and trades are open and in some areas the RAF is desperate to fill training slots immediately. What does this mean? Well it does mean that the bar is lowered for certain jobs and that you can expect a fast track process through the selection machine. While it does not mean that the RAF will let anyone in, you may have something that can be waived to allow your application to progress. If you are not sure, ask at your nearest AFCO rather than the Careers Information Line.
My problem is specifically the bit in bold.

How the hell do you hope to encourage high quality applicants if this is how you advertise the vacancies?

This is supposedly posted by someone working at the Leeds AFCO. Can anyone on the inside have a word?
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