I know of guys and girls with in excess of 10,000 hours, including jet time (both as FO and SO/ wide body/narrow body ) with multi crew command experience (turbo prop)who can't even crack an interview with VA!!!
Anyone got any ideas ?
Here's a great idea - join the "boys club" (cronyism/nepotism)
It always was a boys club.
How can there be any merit in a system that recruits GA pilots, with even less than 2000 hours flying single pilot light piston twins (eg BE76), but yet they overlook highly experienced jet/turboprop pilots ?
To make it even more confusing, some of these pilots were hired from one resume only through one of their mates, and then after an interview consisting of nothing more than a casual chat and basically when can you start. No aptitude testing, sim ride or tech questions. How can you can call this accurate screening ?
You might say experience isn't everything, and some of these highly experienced pilots might be unsuitable, but yet they cannot even get an interview to start with.