Which Airlines use aptitude tests for qualified candidates?
I understand that aptitude tests are proven to work at a selection stage for ab-initio pilots, be it for the airlines or for the forces. However which airlines or organisations test candidates with such tests when they are recruiting qualified pilots? (I hear Brittannia, Cathay, KLM and CTC do?)
I was under the (perhaps misinformed) impression that airlines and smaller operators looked more at one's CV content, hrs, types, experience etc. and regarded paperwork aptitude tests more as a rigmarole task. We can show them exam result, marks, attempts etc. if they want proof of our aptitude.
I have done aptitude tests in the past for the Forces and CTC and prepared accordingly with books and tests. As a fATPLer is it still worth keeping up to speed with these tests? Wiser people than myself recently suggested that I should be more concerned about making a good impression at interview and nailing sim rides? Alongside this should a fATPL still be polishing his/her number sequencing,playing with boxes patterns and pictures?....I guess it would give us something to do as we wait for the market to pick up!?