Actually, yes, passion and drive count for quite a bit with KBAL. The list of skill areas that you need to be up to speed on are simply givens for employment. Since the company is a small yet global airline, we are spread thin, and the ranks must necessarily be filled by the keen.
Personality is assessed (to the extent we can) by the people you happen to be with in the groundschool. This ranges from crusty 25000 hour drivers to 501 hour first officers, and usually from a dozen diferent bases.
As an aside, since you mention that you are aspiring, but not yet qualified, you might wish as well to become really proficient in your understanding of the handling of dangerous goods, and whimis. Our pilots earn fairly good money for working six months of the year on light twins. The down side is that we are a lean organization, and acceptance and loading of a variety of really wacky dangerous goods is a daily occurance for pilots.
By this, I mean all the sorts of things that British Airways pilots must load on the Concorde all the time: Cement Mixers, Snowmobiles, 90 HP outboard Motors, Rabid Fox Heads, and zillions of Fuel Drums.
While you are studying, a map of the arctic, with the names of the places we fly from? (probably a good idea). A helpful int Iqaluit is in the east Inuvik is in the west, Cambridge is in the middle, Resolute in in the middle, at the top. Oh, I suppose you don't need a map now after all.