Recruitment Process
It beggars belief that this LCC chooses to conduct multiple and onerous testing procedures when this country is facing a shortfall of pilots. I understand that it may be appropriate for younger low hour pilots or even cadet pilots, but it is a real deterrent and a slap in the face to older seasoned veteran pilots with thousands of hours. Many a time I have spoken to these pilots who say they just couldn't be bothered being dragged through laborious testing & behavioral assessments as if they were 22 again.
For my mind an interview an on-line testing (or maybe a sim check) should suffice for vets with jet experience. Or is this a way for Tiger to surreptitiously weed out out any applications from older pilots in favour of younger pilots with minimal experience ? Appears quite evident to me. And same could be said for Qantas. Ageism is still alive and well in Australia aviation and most likely many other fields of professional employment.