Originally Posted by
itsnotthatbloodyhard
The word on the street is that in this brave new world of HR-led QF recruiting, they're favouring low-time applicants over more experienced ones from other airlines or the military. The reasoning being that a low-time bloke who's been scraping by in some low-paid job will be so grateful to have a job at QF that they won't ever rock the boat. In other words, they're prioritising industrial compliance over experience and expertise.
Good news for Virgin if it's true.
Hopefully this is nothing more than rumour, but it came from a credible source and was supposedly confirmed by a management type.
If it's true, I'm blaming IsDon.
I can anecdotally back that up. I know of a few "interesting" people who have got interviews with Qantas while very few experienced military QFI's have done anything beyond stage 1.