Are you telling me that every CV that comes through the door of an airline does merit an interview ? surely there must be some form of selection prior to even going for a sim check or interview or tests ?
We are getting there. Yes if you have the required legal licenses everyone should be up for interview. But the econmics of interviewing 1000's of wannbies stops this occuring. They have to put limits in to cut the numbers down to something they can manage. It can be really daft things like the next 40 CV's through the door which are OK. The previous 6 months of CV's just get dumped. Only look at the postcodes surrounding the base. When they shuffel them into a pack the ones that stick out the top etc etc.
This isn't a debate about modular or intergrated the same applies to both as these days employers don't look at if you were modular or Intergrated. You have a license and thats it box ticked. MCC another box ticked. Current class 1 box ticked. Current SPA-IR box ticked. So you now have all the boxes to start a type rating. Which is why you stick that stuff at the top of your CV.
Then its education, previous jobs, hobbys, and also other factors which they shouldn't look at like if you are single or not and age. And all the things mentioned are at the whim of the company.
The whole business of getting your CV selected is more luck than design. Unless you can get yourself in with the company by knowing line pilots who put a word in for you.
And every comapany is different which is why its a complete waste of time banging out 100's of CV's all with the same covering letter. Each letter and CV must be tailored for the company.
The time to worry about what BA want is when they start taking on low houred pilots again. They will then decide what the current requirments are to filter the responses. But to be honest when they do start recruiting again there is enough supply of high hour jet drivers to satisfy them intially while thy decide what they are doing with the low hours guys. Its going to be years before they are recruiting low hour pilots again. The good thing about this though is there should be spaces occuring in other companys.
I don't really know why everyone is so set on BA anyway. From what I heard about the current T&C's of the last batch that went through its not particulaly well paid with a ****e pension and you have to live in the SE which is highly expensive and a list for command which is 10-15 years long. And you have to put up with the various union mafia which effect most trades on the ground and in the air.
MJ