Originally Posted by Vexed
I'd rather recruit someone for their personality, or knowledge of their type or EU-Ops, not for some BS they copied and pasted of the net to answer a "competency" based question, especially FOs or cadets. BA needs to get off its high horse and realise it' not the only game in town.
Knowledge of type is irrelevant given you may not end up on that type in BA. Eu-Ops? Who needs an encyclopaedic knowledge of Eu-Ops? In BA you fly to their JPMs which are approved under Eu-Ops. You're not expected to go outside that particular box. Personality? Now you're talking, but it's about attitude too, and attitude is what gets a lot of people rejected who come to the interview full of Eu-Ops, knowledge of their current type and a belief that because BA need their type rating they can just walk in. Turns out BA don't need their type rating and they can find pilots from other sources, just as they always used to.