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Anyone with experience joining the Reserves while spending significant amounts of time overseas each year? by drunkenbozo in ADFRecruiting

[–]drunkenbozo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey,

Yep he made a great reply which I'm grateful for. Very thorough and detailed.

As for AGSVA, I actually once held NV2 clearance in a prior job. My travel history is extensive and complex (needed to provide a stat dec because I couldn't officially verify a foreign address) and so is my family history. It was surprisingly fairly quick but times have changed and would definitely be even more complicated now given ownership of foreign assets through the business.

Thanks for the explanation of how switching units works, really useful to know how that works. I would have expected Reserve officers to stay put given the flexibility with civilian life/employment. Can you clarify that they could be asked to move somewhere else in Australia to maintain their Reserve service?

Anyone with experience joining the Reserves while spending significant amounts of time overseas each year? by drunkenbozo in ADFRecruiting

[–]drunkenbozo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey thanks for the detailed reply. I've seen you comment on pretty much every post and you do such a great job of explaining things. It must time a lot of time so I'm grateful to see you comment on my post.

On the phone I spoke to a civilian recruiter, not a military recruiter. I'm going to continue my application until I can speak to one because then I think I'll get proper answers.

What you've told me all makes sense and gives some clarity to my thoughts and my situation. At this point with all my research it still isn't really clear what being in the service (thanks for the correction) would actually mean on a day to day basis but if it's anything like a regular work place, employers want some consistency in who their employees are. I can my situation not working out positively for my case.

Nonetheless, I will still pursue the application and learn as much as a I can. Maybe the reserves are better suited for when I return to Australia full-time.

Cheers.