Quick question: Will guard units call/mail/email some sort of "Thanks, but no thanks" if you aren't selected to interview?

I applied for a pilot slot with a unit whose application window supposedly closed on 30SEP and I've not heard even a whisper from the unit yet. My pilot contact within the unit (who is not at all involved with hiring/interviewing of UPT candidates, so he may be mistaken) told me awhile back that he was thinking he heard interviews would be in OCT. Well, that has come and gone. I think I can guess what the news will be for me if that info is correct, but I'm just curious if it is unusual to not hear anything at all. And I do have confirmation that they received my application package.

Would it be poor etiquette to contact the unit?

Thanks.

 

No, it is not bad etiquette. Done with the right timing (not too eager, yet not too late), it shows interest without being a pest.

I would call.

Other possibilities:

1. The unit has been deployed, and paperwork got slowed down.

2. The unit is running out of man-days, pay-periods, or call it what you will...so paperwork got slowed down. (Many Reserve units are very short of working-days right now).

3. A key player in the process got tasked with something more critical, slowing the paperwork.

4. They contacted primary selectees, and are seeing if they accept, or if they meet further screening. You could be a secondary.

5. Or, they didn't select you.

In my Reserve unit, I believe they always did the courteous thing and notified those not selected. I would hope others would be the same.

Good luck!

 

Thanks for advice. I'll give them a call.