I passed with a B in december i've got my date for 26th september I got it at the end of april. My mate passed with an A in febuary and hasn't heard a thing. Im doing c3s and hes doing fabricating.

Well done and good luck, I know that fitter ACR is a pinch trade at the moment, as for any others, can't really say.

Good choice and stand ready.

I got an A yesterday, bricklayer first choice, my recruiter said the very earliest will be January

Alright mate there are 6 of us going on that date pm me and I will add you on facebook

We have have not stopped recruiting, all the RE phase one places this year have pretty much been filled (the Corp is one of the top job choices). We run on the financial year April-April so next years courses will be April onwards. They will start loading them probably around Dec/Jan how many places each trade gets depends on how many the Corp needs, they will load the courses from the top down i.e A, B, C, D with an A grade id expect you to go first.

For RE Drv as of Monday their were 40 people who have passed for the trade one B, and 39 nine C's so as an A you will go to the top of the list !

The choice is yours wait for Gods Corp or opt for a diff job to get you in quicker !

The above is all readily available to your recruiters

Jamie,

As you can deduce from my User ID, I have a certain capbadge bias but I'll try not to let it influence my answer too much. I agree with what others have said about waiting to see what happens in SDSR to the cavalry before even thinking about QDG and I also agree that recruiting is bouyant. Many capbadges have pinch point trades that are "full" - this doesnt mean no recruiting but it does mean fewer places becasue we're only filling leavers' places not thos plus empty ones. We're all also being careful because few of us expect to escape SDSR totally unscathed - however crucial we think we are!

In your case, my recommendation would be to go back to the AFCO and reassess your choices. Now you have both ASDC and BARB scores, look again at what trade-capbadge combinations are open to you and what their availability of places is. On the one hand, you might now find that there's a trade/capbadge there that you hadn't previously considered but that now interests you, on the other hand almost all capbadge have a trade similar to Dvr/Op - perhaps you simply need to reassess your second choice (maybe even your first choice).

Originally Posted by Avre

We have have not stopped recruiting, all the RE phase one places this year have pretty much been filled (the Corp is one of the top job choices). We run on the financial year April-April so next years courses will be April onwards. They will start loading them probably around Dec/Jan how many places each trade gets depends on how many the Corp needs, they will load the courses from the top down i.e A, B, C, D with an A grade id expect you to go first.

Any idea of how many places will be allocated for the design trades come April, if any at all? In particular Surveyor or Draughtsman? I was told they where trades that where hard to recruit for but within the past few years have become extremely popular and fully manned because of the recession. I'm worried about how long I've got left to wait, changing trade or even capbadge just to start earlier is not an option I want to take.