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Prior service in another nations military will cause delays.Phoenix80 said:I have not lived in the US. Don't know where you got that. I've actually lived in Canada for more than 10+ years. I was honorably discharged from my country of birth's military service for which I have proper documents to present if asked.
That's your opinion, and quite frankly your opinion of whether a charge is serious or not is irrelevant.My petty charge was with respect to a silly incident on the campus of a university where I thought standing up for others meant something in this country.
I have NO issue whatsoever with the verification process or the way it is done. In fact I think it is important for the government and the CF to ensure 'foreign' agents or bad guys can't get in. My issues are 1- The lack of concern among the recruiters about the applicants' time/energy/life and treating potential soldiers (in effect people who'd lay down their lives for their country) as mere numbers or files. It is not right. One can expect that treatment in a municipality when getting a permit or in a medical office (not even there) but not when it comes to an organization that is known (and should be) efficient and productive. I'd rather get the 'NO' answer now than to wait months and years to hear that while I am basically putting all this money and energy and enthusiasm to go through the recruiting process.
1) those are some pretty sweeping generalizations, that display a profound lack of knowledge and experience with the inner workings of the recruiting world. For starters recruiters (at most of the larger centres) are only involved in applicant files up until they get to a CFAT, after that they have no more involvement. Your opinion's are those of someone whom seems to be a whiner. Do you have any actual thoughts, ideas or suggestions as to how to improve the system? Unless you have actual CONSTRUCTIVE COMMENTS OR CRITIQUES, then I suggest you just keep your yap shut. NO ONE likes whiners.
2- My other issue is the time it takes to do it.
Surprisingly people who are actually able to follow directions, fill in paperwork legibly, don't have poor marks and/or have recommended education credentials, don't have a history of drug use/criminality/serious debt issues, haven't extensively traveled (especially to less than friendly countries) and/or have immediate family living in other countries, tend to get through rather quickly.
I spent some time working for a parliamentarian a year ago in Ottawa and when I talked to the MND's office about a few issues I had in mind, I was basically told the issue of ERC being so lengthy and horrendous is that there are only a handful of people working on dozens and dozens of applications and the issue is 'staffing' and lack of funds to expand that unit that does the ERC. Now I'd like to ask you, would it hurt to write to the MND and email the said journalist and tell her where the issue lays? I believe these are valid concerns.
There are several issues, however having people such as your self who are ignorant of what is actually going on internally, writing pissy letters to journalist and the MND won't solve them. For people who do know and/or work in recruiting, there is this little thing called the Chain of Command, which is the correct way to bring up issues and address them. The "chain" also tends to get a little testy when people do an end run around it. As well no matter how much an attempt to stream line the process is, so long as we are such a free and open society, and as long as travelling all over the world is relatively cheap and easy to do, a large number of applicants will require lengthy background checks, which will skew average processing times, and bog down the system.
But by all means CSIS is hiring Security Analysts, https://www.csiscareers.ca/en/jobs/screening-analyst instead of whining, apply to that position or encourage others to do so, so that there are more people clearing up the backlog.