Now this is an interesting topic....SAS Bashing!!
I myself has been spent most of my life in Sweden, and I both like and dislike the country for many reasons.....Taxes being one of the negative aspects....
Well now to SAS, I realy do not care much about it as I donīt work there myself, but I must reflect on some facts.
Swedes are generally well balanced people who normally thinks before they speek....exeptions do exist.
In the old days forigners, -be it Europeans or anything else than Scandinavians, could have only dreamed of ever getting a job with SAS....no so long ago though.....say 15 years ago. I think, and hope all that has changed now, and so has those in the selection team one would hope.
I myself was axed in the selection some 15 years ago, and how differcult that may have been at the time, Iīm now sure it was for the best. At the time I was rather young and realy didnt care much about company-politics....I just wanted to fly! Now however I realise that I would not have been happy there for many reasons....mostly social.
Thanks to this "failure" I now work for one of the largest most respected European airlines with a much faster career development than I could ever have had with SAS. But most importantly: Iīm very happy here, with everything from salary to social climate.
I must conclude that the Swedes who where scrambling me in that selection did their job well....they did not waste mine nor SAS time.
I seriously doubt there is anything wrong with me or SAS, we where just not made for eachother....and the selection team had the professionalism to pick it up. However it was for me to figure out what the reason was, as SAS has the somewhat non professional idea of not letting you now why you have been rejected.
I wish to let everyone know that as professional as they may be at SAS this is a point where they simply fail, as they will never tell you that maybe things in there organisation are not good enough for you. This leaves many to believe the failure is yours as a candidate....that is simply not so. How good SAS may be I know many many pilots who work for larger and "better" airlines than SAS, even though they where once rejected at SAS.
It is simply for everyone to belive in themselfs and realise that SAS is simply one Airline of all in the world, with conditions far below many other potential future employers.....also donīt forget that SAS is mainly a commuter airline to the more global European carriers.
Good Luck to all of you be it at SAS or anywhere else.
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Born to fly, taxed out of the sky.....