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NATS interview process

Old 22nd May 2020 | 00:19
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Originally Posted by justbeingnosey
I am an assistant at Swanwick and growing more concerned by the day. I feel the cuts will be heavy and was wondering if they could legally offer assistant jobs to ATCO’s through redeployment on the basis of more flexibility
Watch them give it to the trainees currently waiting for OJT and or D2 sims - can't imagine them starting their actual training any time soon.
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Old 24th May 2020 | 17:23
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Originally Posted by WoopWoopPushDown
Watch them give it to the trainees currently waiting for OJT and or D2 sims - can't imagine them starting their actual training any time soon.
my feelings are anyone still furloughed at the end of June will not be needed and redundancy beckons
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Old 24th May 2020 | 17:26
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Originally Posted by justbeingnosey
my feelings are anyone still furloughed at the end of June will not be needed and redundancy beckons
I think you're probably right, maybe one small wave now to keep us going, and a large one when this package expires.
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Old 25th May 2020 | 11:13
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Originally Posted by justbeingnosey
my feelings are anyone still furloughed at the end of June will not be needed and redundancy beckons
I appreciate that this is a difficult time for everyone in the industry and there is a lot of worry and anxiety about jobs, but it seems like there is a lot of speculation and conjecture taking place. Some of it may well turn out to be correct, but I think it would be more useful if comments were based on solid information as opposed to feeling, as it just serves to spread anxiety in what is already a difficult time.
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Old 26th May 2020 | 16:32
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Originally Posted by justbeingnosey
I am an assistant at Swanwick and growing more concerned by the day. I feel the cuts will be heavy and was wondering if they could legally offer assistant jobs to ATCO’s through redeployment on the basis of more flexibility
Hi, Justbeingnosey, I’m just being nosey here, too, but looking at your posting history it seems your son was a trainee assistant at Swanwick 10 years ago.

Did he sort you out with a career change in your fifties? Or are you just LARPing?
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Old 26th May 2020 | 17:51
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Old 27th May 2020 | 18:35
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Originally Posted by justbeingnosey
my feelings are anyone still furloughed at the end of June will not be needed and redundancy beckons
About 60% of the company are furloughed at the moment. So this is an unnecessary fallacy.
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Old 29th May 2020 | 07:49
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Will ATC survive

Worth a read for all prospective ATCOs
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Old 21st June 2020 | 22:48
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Has anyone had any recent communication with Nats ? Since my last post in March ( those whose stage 3 was cancelled )
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Old 21st June 2020 | 23:07
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Originally Posted by Krissy9
Has anyone had any recent communication with Nats ? Since my last post in March ( those whose stage 3 was cancelled )
TBH NATS have not even replied to my emails since Novemeber. So i will be suprised to see someone have an email from them
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Old 21st June 2020 | 23:09
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Originally Posted by GandalfGaming2144
TBH NATS have not even replied to my emails since Novemeber. So i will be suprised to see someone have an email from them
Oh really damn, i last spoke to them middle - end of March
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Old 22nd June 2020 | 14:39
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Originally Posted by Krissy9
Oh really damn, i last spoke to them middle - end of March
When you sent your email who did you sent it to. I sent mine to general email for NATS
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Old 19th July 2020 | 04:08
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Hi all, I really want to become an ATC. To get myself prepared for this, I'm planning to form a study group. Drop me a message if you are interested to join. Let me know if you want to create an whatsapp group or telegram group.
cheers
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Old 19th July 2020 | 05:43
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Originally Posted by liamdavis
Hi all, I really want to become an ATC. To get myself prepared for this, I'm planning to form a study group. Drop me a message if you are interested to join. Let me know if you want to create an whatsapp group or telegram group.
cheers
what are you going to study?
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Old 19th July 2020 | 06:56
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Originally Posted by liamdavis
Hi all, I really want to become an ATC. To get myself prepared for this, I'm planning to form a study group. Drop me a message if you are interested to join. Let me know if you want to create an whatsapp group or telegram group.
cheers
Im intrested but wouldn't be better for NATS to tell us about them re opening its recruitment before we start studing for anything.
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Old 20th July 2020 | 08:28
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Originally Posted by liamdavis
Hi all, I really want to become an ATC. To get myself prepared for this, I'm planning to form a study group. Drop me a message if you are interested to join. Let me know if you want to create an whatsapp group or telegram group.
cheers
I am interested in joining the study group. Happy to PM my phone number for setting up the group on WhatsApp or Telegram :-)
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Old 21st July 2020 | 10:54
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It's a nice idea to do a study group, but the application process doesn't reward prior knowledge - it's really based on aptitude and personality. You could have read every book on air traffic control and still fail the process, while someone with no prior knowledge at all could pass.

Also bear in mind that things are very uncertain in the industry at the moment - I'm currently awaiting a start date for training (it was supposed to be in April) - nobody knows if/when it's going to go ahead, given the current situation.
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Old 24th July 2020 | 18:38
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liamdavis What are you going to study? Tried to PM you but your inbox is full, you need to delete all messages (sent messages too) as we are allowed only one message at the beginning (if nothing has changed).

"liamdavis has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space."
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Old 28th July 2020 | 21:28
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Assessment reschedule

those who’s assessments were cancelled and due to reschedule has there been any update ? I was last told September possibly, but I am not sure if this is 100%
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Old 31st July 2020 | 14:20
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Originally Posted by Krissy9
Those who’s assessments were cancelled and due to reschedule has there been any update ? I was last told September possibly, but I am not sure if this is 100%
I was supposed to have a Stage 3 Assessment back in March but haven't had any communication with them since they said it was cancelled.
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