Originally Posted by
dr dre
So if you have several hundred applications does the Chief Pilot personally interview them over the course of a few months? Might be OK for a smaller operator with not many applicants but when you approach any lager operator - some of whom get them in the thousands - it becomes impractical. Plus in the former it’s likely the CP would tend towards nepotism and hire their mates. I wouldn’t call that “working brilliantly”.
No, of course not. Recruitment would be handled by the Flight Ops team - they will be involved anyway.
It’s a simple solution, as I mentioned previously. You sift the applicants based on any number of variables, for example total hours, jet hours, type rating held, similar type rating, etc etc. It’s pretty easy to set up.
Airlines do this all the time.
It is not impractical at all.
Anyway, how does a psychometric test help this? it doesn’t, and it offer no value.
I think that your comments about nepotism etc are unworthy.