I have had numerous discussions with the likes of SIA and Sasco to get them to see that looking for guys with those specific types is becoming a pointless exercise. As spanners is saying, why not offer some training and incentives in payment for loyalty...sadly an element missing from our industry.
Sasco are after MD11 engineers with a UK or Aussie licence ??? so now they have realised they are next to none, they asked me to look for DC10 guys and offer them the carrott (?) of an MD11 course in exchange for a 2 or 3 year contract. Not a bad deal and had a few guys interested, but then Sasco HR binned the idea on cost and guess what, they still have no dc10/md11 engineers.
Same goes for SIA with 744 guys, very few with Pw4000 version, so why not get guys in , chuck them a Pw4000 course (2 weeks) and start them gaining experience, 6mth down the line you've got an approved guy .... try telling that to the bean counters. And lo and behold, SIA are still short of 10 engineers for the line operation.
But does not seem like other places are much different?
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