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Old 11th September 2003 | 16:35
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witchdoctor
 
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Hmmm, smells like (sniff, sniff) the boy's been to an Oxford open day.

Same old bull!!!! fairyland figures they were giving out 3 years ago. I wouldn't believe them even if they were to be a little more conservative and say 20% were employed in a flying capacity 12 months after graduation.

Don't fall for the figures unless they are prepared to put the specifics in writing and offer you a money-back guarantee if it doesn't happen. If this is OAT propaganda, perhaps you ought to enquire why their career development manager has left after only a few months in the job. Can't deliver the promises in the marketing hype perhaps?

Oh, and even the 'best' school can't magic up a job that doesn't exist, regardless how good they think they're 'contacts' at the airlines are. In most cases, these are the same 'contacts' you would have just by picking up the phone and calling them yourself, and your chances of gaining employment unaided are probably better than anything your FTO will do for you after you've left.

And yes, they really do say "Ta for the cash, seeya!"
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