Originally Posted by
aviationfanatic
Hello,
Does Airfrance charge for the assessment?
Thanks
Yes, but this is quite different.
They also need to deter the less motivated candidates.
If it was very easy to apply, you would get tens of thousands of candidates, some of which would pass the first steps by pure luck and go at the interviews totally unprepared.
Their lack of motivation and luck would be discovered at the final interview, which would be very late. And this would not be efficient at all.
For qualified pilots, it is very different. If you're a qualified pilot going to an interview, you're a credible candidate.
In my opinion they should consider sufficient the fact that the guy is traveling hundreds of kilometers to go see them.
But maybe they have a different experience, with candidates coming from across Europe, being successful, and refusing the job offer ?
A slightly different twist to the argument. I'm by no means in favour of $1000 fees, I'm talking about a few hundred Euros like a lot of European airlines want for an application. A recruiter told me fees are a good way of separating those who want to be there, from those who are half-cocked. Sometimes people just apply for the heck of it. Or apply for the experience of an interview and assessment. Stick a €300 application on there, and chances are a time waster won't apply. So the airline is left with mostly 100% motivated applicants.
Even with a 400 hundred euros total fee (160+130+class 2 medical at about 100) + requiring 2 years of college in a scientific domain or a graduate degree, AF still gets some poorishly motivated candidates.. That get eliminated at the final stages of the selection process...
I would say about 1 out of 3 candidates at the interviews is rejected because of motivation and 1 out of 3 because of personality, the last one is successful.