ResCAS results
Career management 54% satisfied with career management within their unit
Development & progression 56% satisfied with the opportunities for personal development 42% satisfied with the opportunities for promotion
Some comments received regarding career opportunities in the RAF Reserves:
My Squadron has been told that there is now a limit imposed by Honington, on the numbers of non Commissioned officers it can have. This is having a detrimental effect on the retention of senior members of the Squadron.
There is no career management in the reserves that I have noticed, only what you do yourself. Is there a reserves desk officer? I honestly don’t know. What role do RFMC have in career management? There is very little opportunity for promotion from SO3 to SO2 and beyond.
Career opportunities are not discussed.
I’m in my last year and will have served 36 years as a reservist of one form or another - VRT, PTRS, FTRS. Not once in all that time has anyone conducted a formal career counselling session with me. Almost no prospect of any officer getting beyond Flt Lt - but RNR and AR get automatic Lt Cdr/Major. Length of time stuck in junior officer ranks is not made clear.
I have been a FS since 2008 with positive promotion recommendations more or less every year, yet there are no opportunities for progression in the RAuxAF. Most of the WO roles are filled by AD or FTRS and FS is effectively dead man’s shoes…I also find the approach to NSAR ratings completely inconsistent and now find myself being compared to regulars rather than reservists in the same rank and trade. I am most dissatisfied with the situation and am actively seeking to transfer into the Army Reserve as a result.
The situation will only get worse, as ex regulars join due to the incentive scheme, so someone needs to do some serious thinking about how career expectations can be met in the future. My employer is now questioning what I actually get from the reserves, and consequently asking what the benefits are for them. Considering I am a 1* level Civil Servant, working closely with MoD on reserves recruitment and employer/ministerial engagement, they do not think I am getting much benefit at all and see the benefit primarily being one way. My employer is one of the most supportive in the country (as a result of my efforts) and will continue to support Defence, but they are no longer convinced that my time in the Reserves is really beneficial at all. They are now fully supportive of me applying for a transfer to the Army Reserve as they see the limitations of RAuxAF in my scenario.
I am satisfied that opportunities exist for promotion to Cpl, but there is very little opportunity for lateral progression or any out of trade courses. There is certainly no avenue for transferring of skills and I fear we lose people from the reserves rather than trying to attract leavers into a different role.
I was on a promotion course. It was cancelled at the last minute. I would have been promoted, but 2 years later, still no course availability!
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