The ATCO Maestro? Finally! It's only taken ten bl**dy years!!!!
Anyway, to your questions...
I don't object to it....not at all. Because each interview will be unique. Once you've done a few you get pretty good at ferreting out the evidence needed, and the questions I ask I can always twist them round in reaction to what the candidate says. One gets to enjoy that sort of thing after a while.....
On a serious note, does anyone here think that my
wonderful and
talented colleagues in Recruitment don't bother to occasionally skim through the largest and most popular topic on the ATC forum of the largest and most popular aviation website in the country?
You might have gathered that one of my disappointments is when I'm faced with a candidate who hasn't prepared. Those who ask on here 'How much/what sections of the document (for stages 1 and 2) do I need to learn?' grate somewhat too; Learn it. Full stop. It will stand you in good stead. If I was meeting a trainee fresh from the College at Heathrow Tower and as I handed them their copy of the Heathrow Manual of Air Traffic Services Part 2 (about two inches thick) they asked me how much/what sections of the document they had to learn, they might find themselves stuck in the outside lift for 4 hours on a freezing December morning on their own.
As to your second question....yes; a God complex or at the very least a massive ego, arrogance, lack of integrity, that sort of thing.....
Oh yes...chiseled jaw too, gotta look good in the regulation issue Ray-Bans when walking through a packed arrivals hall on the way home....
