Hi galleygirlAPU
Go to
http://www.easyJet.com and click on the 'About us' link which is on the orange strip at the bottom. On the next screen click on 'Jobs' on the menu on the right hand side of the screen. You will then be able to read the 'official' details of the job.
All easyJet employees are employed on a UK contract (unless they are working for easyJet Swiss which is under the Swiss AOC) and therefore are paid in pounds sterling into a UK bank account - this can be a problem if you are working in a base located outside of the UK.
Training is carried out at the 'easyJet Academy' which is a new training facility located at London Luton Airport. It is a 'brand new state of the art facility' that only opened this month. As yet I have not been to the academy, but I have seen very impressive photos of the cabin simulator which is used for evac training. It looked so realistic, you could actually think it was one of the easyJet 737's and 319's cut in half and stuck together! Training takes 4 weeks and covers SEP/SOP & First Aid training, you are also given a little bit of 'self defence' training (
) and some cabin service training. The standard of the trainers and training is excellent, the trainers really do want you to succeed.
When you have graduated and go online, you can expect to be worked like a dog for 6 months, until you have passed your 6 months probation period. This is because when you are on probation you are paid a little bit less than what you earn after passing probation (and therefore are cheap labour!). This has the downside of you not having much free time, but the upside is that you have lots of money (another downside though, is not enough free time to spend it
)
Once you have passed probation, you usually find your roster becomes a bit more humane, with slightly better rest times and slightly less sectors to fly, but because of the increase in salary and sector pay after passing probation, you won't notice any negative impact in your salary.
easyJet is a great company to work for with great pilots and cabin crew (won't mention management
) so I would say to you to 'go for it' and apply and have fun!