How to PASS the RAF Officer selection process with advice on passing the OASC and interview.

1. How To Pass The RAF Officer
Aircrew and Selection Centre
OASC
by Richard McMunn
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2. During the RAF Officer OASC
you’ll complete five leadership
exercises that show in detail your
leadership potential and style in a
variety of challenging
environments.

3. - a group discussion;
- a group planning exercise;
- a hangar familiarisation period;
- an exercise without a leader;
- a command situation exercise;
and
- an individual planning exercise.
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4. How to pass the RAF Officer OASC
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5. How to pass the RAF Officer OASC

6. How to pass the RAF Officer OASC

7. How you are assessed at the RAF OASC
 Confidence and Resilience
 Oral Communication
 Influence
 Problem Solving
 Teamwork
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8. The RAF use what is known as a ‘Behavioural Anchored Rating Scale’
(BARS), which allows the assessors to rate a candidate’s performance on a
scale linked to clearly defined observable behaviours. An example of a BAR is
as follows:
ORAL COMMUNICATION
Grade 4 (Good)
Delivery - Forceful projection, clear delivery.
Effectiveness / Understanding - Concise, succinct, articulate, lucid, easily
understood, uses language/style appropriate to audience.
LISTENING - Listening to others’ views attentively, asks patient questions to
clarify.
GRADE 3 (Acceptable)
Delivery - Expresses self clearly, good pace, good projection.
Effectiveness / Understanding - Coherent, understandable, covers all points,
comprehensive brief, speaks
fluently.
LISTENING - Listening to others’ suggestions.

9. GRADE 2 (Requires development)
Delivery - Makes himself/herself heard, projection varies, projection ok but
drops, slight tendency to mumble, is quiet under pressure.
Effectiveness / Understanding - Covers most points, team didn’t always
understand, not concise lengthy briefs, inappropriate language – sense of
occasion, rapid delivery, slight ponderous speech, disjointed brief,
sometimes had to repeat brief.
LISTENING - Listens to major contributors in the group only.
GRADE 1 (Weak)
Delivery - Mumbles, mutters, monotonous, voice does not carry, whispers,
barely audible, tends to slur words.
Effectiveness / Understanding - Monosyllabic, wooden, rambles,
meaningless chatter, verbose, garrulous, struggles forming sentences,
couldn’t understand what his/her point was.
LISTENING - Doesn’t listen to others’ views, talks over other and interrupts.
It is clear from the above BAR that you need to be aiming for 3’s and 4’s
and should structure your communication around these areas.
Look at Grade’s 1 and 2 and avoid these actions!

10. WHEN ARE THE COMPETENCIES ASSESSED?
Confidence and Resilience – Assessed during every stage.
Oral Communication – Assessed during every stage.
Influence – Assessed during every stage with the exception of the
Individual
Problem Solving exercise.
Problem Solving – Assessed during every stage with the exception of the
discussion exercise.
Teamwork – Assessed during every stage with the exception of the
discussion and the individual problem solving exercise.

11. Please go to:
www.How2Become.com
for more RAF Officer OASC tips
and questions!
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