Originally Posted by
LastPastthePost
The number of candidates historically taken to waterside is generally 3 x the number of places for each FTO.
First year: 90 places in total, 30 per FTO. Each FTO sends 90.
Last year: 72 places in total, 24 per FTO. Each FTO sends 72.
This year: 60 places in total, 20 per FTO. Each FTO sends 60 ?
The cost of selection only covers the FTO selection costs (and maybe a bit of profit too?). So the costs of the day at Waterside are covered by BA. The purpose of the FTO is to filter out the candidates, so I can see why BA want to limit it to the best x candidates.
Maybe FTE get some brownie points from BA for doing a more rigorous selection procedure and therefore send less than the limit? There are dangers in that too though..
We were certainly under the impression for FPP2 that each FTO sent about 100 candidates to Waterside, from which they then picked the 72 they wanted (I'd be surprised if anyone other than the recruitment team knew the precise numbers). Ultimately, it didn't end up being an even split between FTE/CTC/OAA, although couldn't tell you the precise figures.