Seeing ryr recruitment brag that they interview over 2000 pilots....you can drill a bit deeper...
thats about half their current workforce!! Not something that is worth bragging about! Yes they are expanding, but to have to replace such a huge number is not a good thing...!
And of that 2000 candidates, they hire about 800 cadets, and by their own admission its around a 50% pass rate for cadets, so thats 1600 cadets interviewed...(at 300e a pop remember..!!) so that leaves only 400 rated/experienced pilots.
Ryr is without doubt, one of the safest financially stable airlines, a great roster, great colleagues, huge variety of bases yet it is still very much the bottom of most pilots wish list. Most of the experienced candidates are from far flung parts of the world, not your usual household name airlines.
A good indicator is how many pilots go to ryr from the likes of BA,Easy,Thomson,Lingus etc. Crews leaving in droves to these companies. Even new bonded cadet fo’s are shortly off to transavia! Dozens upon dozens have left to join ez, not one the other direction. For ultimately an identical career, this should raise alarm bells for HR.
It could, and should be the employer of choice, the european version of SW. It would smash all competition out the water, in terms of profits, sales, rentention of staff etc. The AGB program needs to change gear significantly, and look internally as well, change its dna to make it the company that so many of their staff really do want it to become! There are two parts of the equation to having the correct man power, staff in and staff out!
Stop the staff out part, the staff in part becomes a lot easier as you need less recruits and word gets out that it is the career airline of choice and the queue for staff in will grow significantly.