NATS ATCO recruitment.......only short psychopaths need apply!
It is impossible to achieve a 100% pass rate on a time/finance limited course no matter how good the recruitment process.........either people or time or financial limits will be exceeded.....or in the case of NATS...all 3!
IMHO, the problem NATS has is not in the recruitment it is in the training or more importantly the progression/rejection of students as the course progresses. NATS was unable to sort out the problem of failing people who then proceded to become good controllers with other companies. Their answer was not to prevent such leakage it was to redesign the training into more specialised areas so that failing students from the process resulting in the majority of failures does not provide ready made controllers for the competition.
In order for any computer analysis as described to be valid it would have to include all the people who were failed by NATS and went on to become good controllers elsewhere. It would have to also include the data showing the fact that many ATCOs from the ATC School subsequently fail to validate on return to their operational unit..............probably the only place in the world where the old "
those that can do, those that can't teach statement is true.
With all the moaning from well educated, motivated and enthusiastic candidates one has to wonder if NATS recruitment and training has taken a big chunk out of the Ryanair manual for people management!
Regards,
DFC