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Old 5th Jan 2013, 01:25
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Lightbulb To those surprised to be rejected when they have a degree

Remember how these selection processes work! Whatever the industry, your qualifications don't make any difference getting to an assessment stage, or how clever you are. It's all done on how good you are at BS on the multiple choice questions and the BA related bit, forget work history or any qualifications above min required, it doesn't matter.

I got rejected last year at 25 with PPL, 2 BSc degrees, 4 A levels...as well as a decent work history at major companies with both customer services as well as technical etc.

But if you don't get through this time it's easy, just ask a mate to do the questions for you next time. Even someone not interested in being a pilot with no knowledge. With the multiple choice it's easy to reason 1 or 2 answers can be right but you have get which one is the correct answer, usually the one which requires the least thinking, this is because companies want people that follow instructions. Same goes for the supporting questions on BA etc, ask someone to help with that too. Not everyone is good at putting stuff like that into writing, or having a corporate mindset to pick the generic answers on a multiple choice, it doesn't even give any real indication to whether someone can be a good pilot.

Basically apply again next year, keep the application the same for work, qualifications, why you want to be pilot etc. Just get someone else to do the multiple choice questions and you'll be surprised how they change their opinion
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