Numerous complaints have been made to Fairwork Australia about the ASA recruitment process.
I have seen the numbers of recruits to ATC that are accepted whom are "older" and the number is very low.
They claim:
* Age is not known or factored in at any stage of the recruitment / testing
* ASA does not have a Return of Service obligation for probationary employees such as ATC employees
* ASA employs Human Factors and workplace psychologists to evaluate the educational pre-requisites in addition to all elements of pre-selection testing. Their expertise allows for them to evaluate what are the identifiers for maximising recency have been determined as one of these factors
* The year 10 education qualifications recency was established in line with other tertiary level institutions and was not chosen as an arbitrary figure
* AirServices does not actively discourage any applicants. ASA merely stipulates pre-requisites in terms of residency and educational qualifications
* AirServices maintains the right to impose educational recency requirements - this is in line with other educational institutions and other Aviation training providers
This particular response came back because the candidate complained that the 10? year recency requirement on obtaining VCE, Bachelor or PPL discourages older applicants to apply, because they actively stated that applicants are discouraged from obtaining any one of those in order to be eligible to apply.
Fact is that if you are 1 subject away from obtaining your Masters at the age of 41, then you can't apply, but yet an 18 year old with year 10 can.
Go figure.