Short Answer No (and Yes). Longer Answer All applicants will sit the Airman/Airwoman Selection Test (AST). The AST consists of seven multiple-choice tests, each focusing on different skills. The tests will cover (Assessment Centre HQ, 2014): Verbal reasoning (15 mins & 20 questions): how do you use and interpret written information? Numerical reasoning (11 mins & 15… Read More
How Much Qualification Pay Do You Get for Being a PTI?
Physical Training Instructors (PTIs) within the military do not receive any qualification pay (otherwise known as Recruitment and Retention Pay (RRP); previously Specialist Pay). The Armed Forces’ Pay Review Body (AFPRB) provides independent advice to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Defence on the pay and charges for members of the Naval,… Read More
How to be a ‘Good’ Boot Camp Instructor?
I think this is a difficult question to answer due to the fact that the term ‘Boot Camp’ means different things to different people. However, not one to shy away from an academic argument, I would say that the following links provide a good starting point: Page: Must Haves and Red Flags; Page: Principles of Good Instruction;… Read More
Natural Talent versus Artificial/Enhanced Talent
Research Paper Title May the Blessed Man Win: A Critique of the Categorical Preference for Natural Talent over Doping as Proper Origins of Athletic Ability. Background Doping scandals can reveal unresolved tensions between the meritocratic values of equal opportunity + reward for effort and the “talentocratic” love of hereditary privilege. Whence this special reverence for… Read More
Outdoor Fitness & Reasonable Access to Documents
Offer + Acceptance = Contract When your employer sends you a contract of employment it constitutes an offer (the first part of a contract between two or more parties). When you sign (and return) your contract of employment to your employer it constitutes acceptance (the second part of a contract between two or more parties). However,… Read More
Outdoor Fitness: Workers/Employees & Social Media Use
An article by Jonny Gifford, Research Advisor with the CIPD, talking about social media use by workers/employees and HRs role. I think this article should give Outdoor Fitness companies, managers and workers/employees food for thought about the appropriate use of social media. Blurred Lines – Autonomy or Control in Social Media? Our increasing use of… Read More
What Does DTTT Mean in the Army?
DTTT is short for the Defence Train the Trainer qualification which must be completed by all MOD personnel who will undertake instructional duties. Detailed information on the DTTT qualification can be found here. The reader is also directed to the consolidation course, DTTT(C) and the new Army Instructional Capability programme which should fully operational from October 2014.
Boot Camp & Military Fitness Institute 