I transferred in 2002 from bmi regional to bmibaby, so my recruitment situation was very different to what you will have to go through to join baby. I've been told though that bmibaby's recruitment days are much more informal than those at bmi, but still maintain the same high standards of professionalism that you would expect from the parent company, which I think is evident in all aspects of bmibaby - professional but informal.
bmibaby hasn't been recruiting for EMA I believe since late 2004 as the majority of 2005's recruitment was for BHX & MAN, therefore there should be a nice mixture of fresh faces & experienced old owls as it were! A typical week involves working six days, usually three early starts followed by three late starts, and then you get three days off. As of the summer I think all shifts are 4-sector days, but I think the only non-four sector day will be Faro (about 3 hours there, 45 minute turn, 3 hours back) but this is only done once weekly, this summer it will be flown on a Sunday morning.
The airline used to be notorious for having crews layover in other bases, never in European cities as proper trips, particularly when baby began opening lots of new bases (CWL, MAN, MME) but thankfully this is now much more of a rare occurence.
EMA is a lovely base on many levels. We're self-handled, so we get along very well & know our ground crews (ramp is done by Menzies), it's small enough that most people know each other but of a reasonable enough size to keep things varied. As an airport, it's a lovely place to work, I think it has a lot of character, unlike some of the faceless airports we fly to like MAN & BHX which seem so sterile.