Are we talking about cadet training schemes that you pay 100k for or the chances of gaining meaningful employment by attending a pilot assessment day with licence in hand? If it's the latter then in todays world as a freshly minted CPL holder your only real prospect is joining the Ryanair brigade when they re-open their TR scheme again. When that will be is anyones guess and theres quite a backlog... those who passed assessment early 2019 are still waiting to start TR.
If we're talking the former then expect to join the back of Ryr queue when your time comes. Just be aware your "training provider" will in no way help you with your Ryr application as you sit down and do it all yourself.
The requirements are as follows:
CPL / ME IR / APS or MCC / AUPRT / Class 1 / Flight School Report
You submit copies via an online portal and if it all checks out then you'll be asked to pay a fee to sit some online aptitude tests. If that goes well then you'll be asked to pay a heftier fee to attend an interview and sim assessment in Dublin. The whole process costs in excess of €500 so as much as it would be nice to say its merit based, theres clearly a financial incentive to at least get you to Dublin.
Throughout the process they DO NOT care if you are integrated / CAE / L3 or Modular etc. You will be interviewed amongst an array of individuals all from different backgrounds. Some will have paid as little as 30K to be sat there in the same room holding the same licence as you that you paid upwards of 100K for because you were incorrectly informed by your training provider.
At no point are you guaranteed anything and at no point is employment certain. Completing the training is the easy part, getting a job is completely different ball game altogether.
Just bare all of this in mind.
Last edited by Contact Approach; 29th Nov 2020 at 13:56.