Matzpenetration - thanks for your heads-up on IPA. However, your assessment of EOC is rubbish. The recruiters and managers I saw on Saturday were either giving presentations or spent the whole afternoon talking to the queue of people at their stand. If they caught up on some gossip over a soggy spring roll at lunchtime, I have no problem with that... That said, I generally agree with you the BALPA isn't too great at helping wannabes - but they're a union not a recruitment agency (
AFAIK Unison, MSF or any other union I come into contact with doesn't help their wannabes any more than BALPA does).