Posted By j daly To start this thread can I say good luck to all those leaving our armed forces trying to find work in civvy street. Increasingly on the careers website there are people leaving the armed forces with the NEBOSH certificate and applying for jobs in full time health and safety. Nothing wrong with that. But how is health and safety being marketed to them in their resettlement package. Are they being told it is easy to get into ,just get the certificate and the worlds your oyster. If this is the case then it should be reviewed and those leaving the armed forces given an unbiased view of the real world of Health and Safety. Usually certificate holders get the least well paid jobs due to lack of experience. Are they told this? Often employers look for better qualifications and often corporate membership of IOSH which can be years down the line and a lot of hard work .Are they told this? If they are informed of the difficulties in getting on the Health and Safety ladder then I apologise to the people dealing with resettlement .If it is the case I outlined earlier and they are led to believe it is easy to get into safety then it is wrong. Does anybody else share my views or does it just look like there are lots of postings from "ex armed forces"

Posted By DW Completely agree with you Rod. It does seem that some potential employers find the disciplined background a good basis. Also the numerous emergency, security and safety procedures carried out on a daily basis of the career. I don't know many civilians who have had to deal with a fire drill at 2am! Then possibly a flood exercise 4 hours later!! (ah OST!) Maybe it's the ability to perform in a time of crisis that appeals. Yours Aye DW

Posted By DW Thank you Just to correct you though its lass not lad.

Posted By DW Rod, I was a sailoress and served on HMS Sheffield, HMS Exeter and HMS Endurance. I spent the last few years to-ing and fro-ing from UK - Antarctic. DW

Posted By John Young Nobody ever said it was going to be easy and we should not expect an easy ride when we leave. I was probably one of the first to leave the services and take this road way back in 1989. As was in the services, you start at the bottom and work your way up. As somebody else pointed out, we take on the will to win and persist in being the best at what we do. Through hard work, CPD and finding a good empoyer, an important criteria, I'm doing ok as are many others. Having said all that, I never found the resetlement people to be that good. I only hope things have changed. Aye JRHY

Posted By Tim I am just about to leave, I did my general cert a couple of years ago having done some research, i then completed the construction cert and am now on the level 4 dip and have just got my first job, and yes it has been hard work. I can say, is that after speaking to a number of forces resettlement people i came to the conclusion that they didn't understand the market or the qualification structure at all. The sad thing is that they are getting paid a fair bit of money for it. The new ELC scheme will mean that more and more service leavers will be leaving with dip2/dip L4 instead of the general cert.