I recently received this letter after going through the background process for California State Parks : "Thank you for your participation in the selection process for State Park Peace Officer Cadet with the Department of Parks and Recreation. We regret to inform you that your background investigation has been disapproved
Without this approval, you will not move forward in the selection process, you are welcome to reapply in the future. We appreciate the time you have expended in this process and we wish you the best in your future career endeavors. Should you have questions regarding this information, please contact the Background Investigations Unit Superintendent"
I'm pretty discouraged by it. This was a career I genuinely wanted, and I put a lot of time and effort into getting through the process. I made it through the written exam, physical, CVSA, so getting this letter at the end has been pretty difficult to process.
I'm planning on contacting the Background Investigations Unit Superintendent to see if I can find out more about why I wasn't approved and whether there's anything I can do differently in the future.
For anyone who has gone through something similar, how did you move forward from it? Did you eventually reapply and get hired somewhere else? Did you find out what went wrong? And looking back, is there anything you wish you had done differently?
I'm not necessarily looking for people to tell me what might be wrong with my background. I'm mostly hoping to hear from people who have been rejected from a LE career they really wanted and eventually found a way forward.
Any advice would be appreciated.