So a few months ago (May) I sent in an app to become an ATC. Today, I received an email saying that I've been accepted to take the test. I've been reading the study material about the test, but I'm wondering what all the acroynms mean and the process post-test.. Thanks!
Well here is a link for some acronyms
http://forums.jetcareers.com/air-traffic-control/69664-acronyms-and-glossary-of-terms.html
Process post-test to the best of my knowledge:
Wait for your score to be sent from Robinson Aviation to the folks in the FAA so they can be posted on your ASAP application. All you can do is wait and watch.
Once your score is posted, you will then wait until the referral board meets and makes the decisions on which applications to refer and which ones to deny. Again for this you just have to wait and watch ASAP. Usually there is a post somewhere here when someone finds out the date that the board is meeting. So you get some form of a timeline.
If you are referred, I think what they do now is send out a geo pref email (is that right some of you newer pubnat folks?) and you respond to that.
Eventually you are contacted and offered 1 or more locations (tower, enroute, tracon) and you tell them which one you want. Here you wait and watch again until you are asked if you want to attend a PEPC (Pre-employment processing center). You say yes or no and then you wait and watch for a pepc date.
You get a pepc date, you go to the pepc and jump through all the hoops and fill out more paperwork that by this time should seem all too familiar. You will either pass all the stuff here or not. If everything goes well, you will get a TOL (tentative offer letter) and a possible class start date...just ignore that date imo. You will then go home and wait for your medical, psych, and reference forms to be sent out and returned to your HR rep. This is what people refer to as waiting for their clearances to get turned in.
After all your clearances are in and your HR rep has them in his/her hand, they will begin assigning class dates based on whose clearances they received first. When they get to your name, they will call you and tell you that they have this or that class date for you. You will then decide on a class date and affirm that your going still. About 1-2 weeks later you will get an email with more forms to fill out...this is your electronic FOL (Final offer letter). Shortly after that you should receive your physical FOL in the mail along with some info about OKC.
Once you get your class date through the phone, make some reservations in OKC...the sooner the better.
Go to class, learn to atc and live happily ever after...
Too be sure this is not all inclusive, but its the best I can tell you and I am sure other people will add their 2 cents.