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12-07-2017, 08:56 AM
#11
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Originally Posted by 2BEER
As far as the cog and knowledge tests, follow RST's 15 day getting started checklist. If you just go through the material, keep practicing all of the tests (don't stress if your scores start dropping a bit the more you do the practice, that seems to happen a lot), you will do fine.
The only thing I would add is too give yourself 30 days to finish the 15 day checklist.
12-07-2017, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by middies10
Im going to play devils advocate here and suggest avoiding EC and all HR prep. Don't go into that interview having molded yourself into an EC poster child. Having recently interviewed I was surprised by the nature of the panel interview. First thing they said was to be yourself and throw all that EC stuff out the window. It was an enjoyable conversation. These interviewers are getting tired of canned responses and the same stories garnered from a HR prep service. If you have some stories from your career and are a decent speaker you'd do just fine.
Or, you didn’t take the course and you just relaying what they said at your panel?
I’m quite sure interviewers in all companies are tired of canned responses. But the EC success rate shows their product is sound.
There is nothing wrong with learning how to effectively communicate your own stories....that’s what EC does.
Edit: I see from your profile, you have a civilian background. Well, after 24 years in the Navy I could tell stories but not in a way where everyone could understand. EC helped polish my presentation, they didn’t change the story. For military, first airline interview type people, EC is invaluable. If you’ve been in the business a while and this isn’t your first rodeo, you might do just fine...YMMV
12-07-2017, 09:51 AM
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I guess I missed out on the ECIC material that gave me canned stories to tell that weren't my own. All the seminars I went to encouraged me to look back through my logbook and find situations I had actually been in that would cover certain types of situational questions.
Maybe I should get my money back.
Maybe I should get my money back.
12-07-2017, 11:30 AM
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I appreciate all the feedback. I did get both programs (EC and RST) and I understand responses in the HR portion shouldn't seem rehearsed, I plan on using EC as a tool and just try to relax and be myself. I wish you all the best of luck in your job searches. I will say that I had my apps out there for quite a while and its starting to pay off. Great market to be in right now!
12-07-2017, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyBoyd
So that’s what you got from EC? Tell other people’s stories? If so, you failed the course.
Or, you didn’t take the course and you just relaying what they said at your panel?
I’m quite sure interviewers in all companies are tired of canned responses. But the EC success rate shows their product is sound.
There is nothing wrong with learning how to effectively communicate your own stories....that’s what EC does.
Edit: I see from your profile, you have a civilian background. Well, after 24 years in the Navy I could tell stories but not in a way where everyone could understand. EC helped polish my presentation, they didn’t change the story. For military, first airline interview type people, EC is invaluable. If you’ve been in the business a while and this isn’t your first rodeo, you might do just fine...YMMV
Or, you didn’t take the course and you just relaying what they said at your panel?
I’m quite sure interviewers in all companies are tired of canned responses. But the EC success rate shows their product is sound.
There is nothing wrong with learning how to effectively communicate your own stories....that’s what EC does.
Edit: I see from your profile, you have a civilian background. Well, after 24 years in the Navy I could tell stories but not in a way where everyone could understand. EC helped polish my presentation, they didn’t change the story. For military, first airline interview type people, EC is invaluable. If you’ve been in the business a while and this isn’t your first rodeo, you might do just fine...YMMV
Yes my background is all civilian and being a 121 guy I have been through a few interviews so I had benefited from that. My original post was not to be meant as a shot to EC but to HR prep in general. Again every person is in a separate circumstance so do what you feel is right and at the end of the day every experience differs.
12-08-2017, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Fdxlag2
Comicus, did they mention anything about not talking about fightclub?
A cursory glance at his post history and it’ll be easy to narrow down if they think it was over the line.
Ask the RST guy how things worked out.
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