NATS psychological profiling
NATS have got a psychology boffin from Cranfield Uni to devise a formula that compares applicants for the ATCO training scheme to a "profile" of successfully validated trainees.
Applicants are scored from the aptitude tests, personality questionnaires, both the HR and tech interviews and the computer tests, i.e. the whole process. This data is then fed into the computer and compared to the "successful profile" and the applicants outcome is thus decided.
This sounds far fetched but I have seen it in writing.
It is therefore possible to pass all stages of the selection process but still not meet this magic formula and so be unsuccessful! They wouldn't be performing this jiggery-pokery otherwise.
Why go to all the bother of having the selection process if you don't take notice of the results?! Are the interviewers and interviewees wasting their time? Surely this says that NATS believe the process isn't reliable enough, (that's a seperate issue) so why not address this rather than introducing the secret fudge-factor?
Anyone who puts in the required effort and meets the standards set by NATS at each stage of the application process fully deserves their place on a training course. They should not then be submitted to a lottery that they can have no influence over.
It seems extremely unfair to put people through what is a hard process when in fact they cannot ultimately be fully prepared as there is a secret final stage that is out of their hands.