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Old 3rd Sep 2003, 22:53
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HeloTeacher
 
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Having been involved in the hiring process in the past I can also attest to the comlexity of company minmums.

That company hired and employed a lot of newly licensed pilots (in Canada) but had never advertised for less than a 1000 hour minmum. We always had a stack of 150+ resumes already so advertising for more seemed pointless.

Actual job requirements depended on a large variety of factors including insurance, cost of training/hire, customer, complexity, and more.

We also found that many high time pilots were too inflexible in their ways to be employable. It is not always a matter of skill. Our company operations manual stipulated minimum weather limits for jobs, as well as other restrictions, that many of these pilots seemed incapable of adhering to.

They were not employed any further and the tendency was to look for mid-experience when hiring.

Best of luck to all...
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