Ignore my last post! Went back to my emails to check for a reply and there was a link to the personality questionnaire. Looks like I passed Stage 1 after all.

Just completed the questionnaire, feels like I was repeating myself over and over with all those re-worded questions. What a grueller! :ugh:

Back to the waiting game now :rolleyes:

Hi all,

Does anybody have a rough timescale, from completing the personality questionaire, to finding out if you're going to Stage 2?

Cheers

Officeboy,

See my reply to jfriday a few posts above this one....

For guidance for anyone going through this process, this is how my application went:

10th November - Stage 1.
27th November - Invited to fill in online personality questionnaire, returned the same day.
28th November - Passed personality questionnaire, invited to fill in application form to proceed to Stage 2, form returned about 3 days after this.
3rd December - Invited to book Stage 2 date.
17th December - Stage 2. Told I'd passed on the day.
19th January - Stage 3.
21st January - Told I'd passed Stage 3.
6th February - Medical.

Did the online personality thing yesterday morning and still not heard either way.

God I hate the waiting. Hope it isnt a bad sign

Don't worry, I think the official line is 15 working days for the personality questionnaire... It took two or three days for my result.

marco888,

Unfortunately you have another computer to prove yourself to if you make it to Stage 2 - the dreaded computer tests! Not free of it yet.....

Ah but it's difficult to make old style exam papers move around and collide with each other though! :E

Marco888,

Check out Nokio's excellent post on p35 of this thread for a detailed description of Stage 2's computer fun. Nothing you can do to prepare, and isn't personality based either - it's all about how your brain works (and if it continues to work under pressure) in my opinion...

Talking of the stage 2 tests, has anyone done computer based tests at the OASC at RAF Cranwell? (either with the RAF or through GAPAN perhaps?)

Just wondering if there are any similarities? (I would imagine that there are).

Stage one - multiple choice distance Qs
 

I have my Stage one on 16th Feb in London.

I'm just busy preparing as best i can, i'm currently just having a quick check over some distances between cities (mainly between London and else where, but thats just based on my normal reference point) wanted to check would the answers to any questions that came up like this be in miles or nautical miles? Thought i'd double check.

paperclip810

Thanks for the heads up - that post was a very helpful read.

I was just wondering if anyone could help. I have been invited to the first stage of the selection process but I am unable to attend any date in March due to Work commitments within my current role. I received an email today with additional dates but again these were in march. The email also states that if I have not booked a date by the 24th of February by application will be cancelled.

If I were to explain the situation do you think Human Resources who are responsible for this would be understanding and allow me to wait until a date becomes available in April to book my testing day?

They should be able to.
I initally registered my interested with NATS in june, i was sent an email telling me to book a stage one test, but i wanted to wait a while until starting the application process.
I recieved what sounds like a similar email to you, telling me i had to book my stage one before a certain date otherwise they would assume i did not want to apply again and they would cancel my application. So i called HR explained i didnt wish to start the application process until the end of the year/jan 2009, and they put my application "on hold" for 6months.
They also advised me to give them a call if i wanted to apply any time before this so they could unfreeze me. Was all very straight forward.

Although i think it was only so easy because i had not done any stages, i'm not so sure if you would be able to put off applying fo stage 2 for example having already passed stage one unless there was real need to.

In my test, distances between London and elsewhere were in statute miles (miles), however some of the DST questions were either statute, nautic miles, Even when asking cruising speed of aircraft, in one question, the correct answer was the speed in ground miles per hour.:ouch:

google earth is a good reference point for distances..:ok:
good luck

I feel sick
 

Still no result from the personality test :yuk:

Waiting is killing me. Anyone else comleted it this week had a result yet? Wasnt expecting this one to be 15 days.

How long have you been waiting? I did mine yesterday afternoon. Feeling it too! Hopefully we hear sooner rather than later.

Tuesday - about 10.00am

You end up with a real unhealthy email-checking addiction from this interview process :}

Or you could just tick the box on your application to get a text alert when your result comes in!

I loved that! :8 Only problem was that I just had to check the contents of the email in front of my work colleagues... Lab computer. Thankfully I passed!

Yes I have taken them, and there aren't many similarities. For a start the OASC ones are like 4 hours or so with lots of tests, the NATS ones take about 45 mins with (what I can remember) about 3 tests in it. Unless the computers used at the NATS stage 2 have been updated, they are very basic, whilst the RAF ones are much more up to date looking.

The tests are vaguely the same with mental arithmetic, multi tasking etc. If you found the RAF ones ok, then I should see you having no problem with the NATS ones. They both use the same kind of skills.

Hi all, first post here having been lurking for a few weeks... actually since the day after stage 1 assessment when it occured to me to get googling... should've done that earlier but have made it to the confidence shredding personality assault which I did last night.

Am waiting for the results now... tic, toc, tic, toc

Well, I have just had the pleasure of doing the personality questionnaire.
I swear I have come out of it looking like some sort of anti-social, modest, strange person. :confused:
Let's hope that's what they're looking for!
I seriously contradicted myself so many times 'cause it was hard not to :bored:
Hmmm.
Waiting game begins again.

I completed the lovely personality questionnaire on Tuesday morning, still waiting for the results myself. I found it impossible not to contradict yourself on a couple of the questions, but I was honest as possible. Don't fancy waiting another 15 days though :zzz:

had my stage one yesterday and this wait is so nerve racking! not even been a day! :uhoh: i was wondering, did anyone have to do a personnality questionaire on the day or was it only if u pass the tests? i thought you had to do one on the day and then another one if you passed the ability tests but yesterday i only did 3aptitude tests, motivation paper and watched the video. do u usually have to wait the full 15days to hear back?

s.c.a.r.e.d!

You will be asked to do the personlaity test only if you pass the initial aptitude tests.

Its a long wait, I got my email 18 days after sitting the Stage 1 stuff

Stage 1
 

Well had stage 1 in Manchester this morning. Now the dreaded wait. As everyone else has said on here learn the manual! So glad I did. Godd luck to everyone who was there!

For my stage one at Manchester, I waited 15 days (not working days) to hear back so there seems to be quite a wait....it's mind-raging!

Stage 1, Manchester
 

Hi Sportzbar, which one were you this morning? I was sat in the middle on the back row when we were all signing in etc. How do you think you did?

Phew....
 

Just got the email about my personlaity test and it appears I have cleared stage 1.

Good news is the sick feeling in the bottom of my stomach has now gone and that copy of Graham Duke's book I bought nearly 3 months ago will come in handy.

Off to read all i can about S2. Finger crossed. Hope everyone else waiting gets the same result :ok:

Same with me. I got the email little more than half an hour ago.

Massive relief. Congrats to anyone who made it and I seriously feel for anyone who hasn't. Good luck to those doing their personality test - I really hated it.

I just want to ask how long after completing the application form online do you get the interview and second stage testing?

Also how soon should I fill it out? I'm away from home at the moment so can't look at my exam certificates until sometime next week. I'm really hoping I wouldn't be handicapped for this. I may have to risk getting the exact date wrong or whatever.

I passed the personailty questionnaire aswell, got an email about an hour ago. Seems my modest, anti-social personailty is a requirement for an ATCO? Congratulations to everyone else who got past stage 1. :D

Now to dig out those certificates and fill in this application form

Woohoo, got mine back, through to S2... Time for a bit more swotting... and I agree, antisocial, modest & not very caring! What's important as has been said so many times, is to be honest. As much as I'd love the job, I'd prefer them to decline the real me than accept a fake that hated the job 6 months down the line...

Oh crap,

do I really need to find my A level and degree certificates????? That was like, 12 years ago. Ive moved house 3 times since then :(

they ask for your grades and dates. i assume theyll want to see the certificates at some point. mine were 8yrs ago, lucky my very proud mother kept on to them for me. im sure you can get copies from the exam board or school, probably be an admin fee though.

Just for some more infor...they will need a copy of your school results if you make it past S3.

Well, I have my degree on the wall. Most places dont ask for anything before that as you cant get on a Bsc degree course without A levels/GNVQ. Cant get those without 5 GCSEs.

Oh well, if I get that far I will have to dig around in my parents house.

whitelighter,

Better start digging - I had to provide copies of all certificates for *all* qualifications mentioned in my application, so everything before degree as well as those certificate(s).

pass the shovel....