COP, sorry to hear of your poor experience with J* recruitment. Despite what many say regarding the inequity of the Qantas stage one process, it does represent a level playing feild for all pilot applicants when and if all candidates must pass through. Like all similar exercises, it does not neccessarily ensure that unsuitable candidates are rejected or that suitable candidates are included. It is the old story of measure with a micrometer, cut with a mattock.
Those who are in flight operations at J*, at least one of who was rejected by QF stage 1, have not considered the transparancy test when it comes to their selection process. From the posts recieved so far, it plain to that a set of moving goal posts, jobs for mates, circumventing the system ect have set the pace for J* flight operations. Really, is this the way to run an airline?
I also wonder what QF feels about all this; they are bank rolling J* and have apparently at some stage applied a requirement that J* pilots are inducted after jumping through the stage 1 hoop. Is this not a slap in the face for QF flight ops management; where a subsidiary company blatently rejects the mandates set down by the parent? Just for a few
'mates', of course!The decision to walk this path is parlous in terms of inter-company politics to say the least!
Even the perception of favours for mates, cronyism, the side-stepping due process and the like can potentially create a dysfunctional operational culture. it seems that such an outcome has not been forseen by those at the top who should know of such things if they are effective managers. From the posts and rumours circulating so far, it would seem that a culture of us/them, being on the 'inside', jobs for mates and different strokes for diff'nt folks is being normalised into J* culture. Sad really. The guys I know on line are good blokes overall.
