fletcher lynn,
50,100,or 100'000 pilots in a selection doesn't mean they need pilot.
Tyrolean pays their Human ressource department (salary, hotel rooms, psy tests,flight fares...) a fortune to run selections.
So they do their job even if they need only 10 pilots a year.
if you pass their selection and they decide they don't need anybody, you will get a negative answer thinking you did something or said something wrong.
at this time , the pass rate is less than 10%, could be 0% for december.
During my selections day, we were 23...only 3 have passed the psychotests.
Maybe none has been selected for the final interview.
Their selection is not accurate and doesn't represent anything.They just want play like the big guys like Airfrance or Lufthansa.