by Guest » Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:44 pm
I've known someone who transferred before Phase II was over, and it was partially initiated by the student.
The way it worked is this: the scholar wrote his CA and told him/her that he didn't feel the current SF was the best fit for him and shared with the CA some of his daily activities. The SMART program discussed the issue and the service liasion talked with the SMART mentor about the issue. The mentor agreed that the facility was ill-equipped to handle the person. The CA then asked the scholar "where would you like to work?" The scholar had to pretty much cold-interview at another facility and open his own doors, but once he was told he could have a job at the second facility if he wanted, the SMART program allowed him to transfer just fine.
The key to the whole issue is the SMART program is run by folks who don't want to do your work for you, but will allow you to make a change that betters your career and utilizes your skillset more, provided your current facility doesn't have any issues with you moving on. You will need to scout out your future facility, contact them, present yourself, and basically make sure the future facility is WILLING and ABLE to hire you before you will be given a 'yes' answer.
It sounds like your current facility is fine with you leaving, in which case, you may as well seek a transfer. You have very little harm in sharing what you've shared here with your CA. If you want to leave the AF and go to the Army or Navy, you may have to work out all the details yourself (find a position, interview, get a job offer) before SMART allows it.
Long story short: if a facility would like to get rid of a student and the student has found placement elsewhere in the DoD, the SMART Program is very unlikely to have a problem with it.
I've known someone who transferred before Phase II was over, and it was partially initiated by the student.
The way it worked is this: the scholar wrote his CA and told him/her that he didn't feel the current SF was the best fit for him and shared with the CA some of his daily activities. The SMART program discussed the issue and the service liasion talked with the SMART mentor about the issue. The mentor agreed that the facility was ill-equipped to handle the person. The CA then asked the scholar "where would you like to work?" The scholar had to pretty much cold-interview at another facility and open his own doors, but once he was told he could have a job at the second facility if he wanted, the SMART program allowed him to transfer just fine.
The key to the whole issue is the SMART program is run by folks who don't want to do your work for you, but will allow you to make a change that betters your career and utilizes your skillset more, provided your current facility doesn't have any issues with you moving on. You will need to scout out your future facility, contact them, present yourself, and basically make sure the future facility is WILLING and ABLE to hire you before you will be given a 'yes' answer.
It sounds like your current facility is fine with you leaving, in which case, you may as well seek a transfer. You have very little harm in sharing what you've shared here with your CA. If you want to leave the AF and go to the Army or Navy, you may have to work out all the details yourself (find a position, interview, get a job offer) before SMART allows it.
Long story short: if a facility would like to get rid of a student and the student has found placement elsewhere in the DoD, the SMART Program is very unlikely to have a problem with it.