In my Day!!!
In my day everyone was thrown into the sim or company hack turboprop as part of the recruitment process, raw flying, no autopilot/auto throttle. Huge pressure (your job depends on the next 5 minutes mate!!)
This certainly weeded out the good the bad and the ugly!!
Things will only get worse as the generation Y is recruited. Key thing for recruiters is to find guys and gals who want to learn and improve from day 1 right through to retirement.