Airservices Australia Psychometric Testing

[SierraCharlieAlpha]

Originally Posted by AW4070

I'm early 30's with a wife and young child. Have been running a business which has been hammered by the current health situation and thinking about a career switch. Am I crazy to try and go down this path at my age? Wondering if anyone has insight into how mature-aged trainees tend to go, assuming they can make it into the training course.

Hi! I’m glad you asked this question, as I’m in a similar boat as far as career changes are concerned. Just make sure you hit the minimum qualifications, ie finished year 12 or a degree within 10 years

[Hatchet7]

Offer for 21st September

I have recieved an offer for ATC trainee starting on the 21st of September, anyone else got the same offer?

[kickingdinnerplates]

Hi all, seems to me that this thread is dying but I’ll post anyway. I just applied for the most recent intake (June 2020) and I completed my online aptitude test last night. I did alright - not bad enough to say I failed but not good enough to definitively say I passed. Anyway, I was just wondering:

1. Would age affect my application? Obviously there is nothing written about age (avoid those discrimination lawsuits lol) but I’m 18 and I’m worried I won’t be taken seriously. This is my dream job. I’ve been researching air traffic control for years and my parents work in aviation. I even read all 198 pages of this forum haha. But yeah it would really suck if they thought I wasn’t serious because I’m young

2. Would COVID affect the recruitment process? From what I’ve gathered, they only do the assessment centre in Melbourne now and Victoria is having a bit of a surge in cases at the moment. I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole state went into lockdown.

[Track Shortener]

Would age affect my application?

Your age itself, no (you meet the minimum requirement and it's illegal to discriminate on the basis of age). However, you may also get what I got when I first applied for ATC, straight out of uni (so a couple of years older than you are now): the feedback after my interview was basically to go away and grow up a little, then come back in a few years.
So I went away and worked in the 'real world' for a bit, took on a job that allowed me to demonstrate responsibility, and three years later was successful.

Having said that, that was my experience, yours may differ. Give it a go, and try not to get too disheartened if it ends in tears the first time.

[kickingdinnerplates]

Oh wow okay. I’ve had three jobs (one in a supervisor position) - would that help with demonstration of responsibility?

Have there been many successful 18 year olds or not so much?

[WhisprSYD]

Originally Posted by kickingdinnerplates

Oh wow okay. I’ve had three jobs (one in a supervisor position) - would that help with demonstration of responsibility?

Have there been many successful 18 year olds or not so much?

Yep there’s a few I can think of that started at 18/19/20 and had no issues.

Not a terrible place to be at age 24 on ATC 6 pay level while mates have just started looking for graduate positions with a huge HECS debt.

[Vakarian]

Just for clarification, there's no training done in Sydney is there? Meaning you'd have to relocate to Melbourne for a year or so?

[corza]

Did anyone in the PPRuNe world apply for the latest round of ATC Trainee before it closed?

[goody777]

Training is done in Melbourne for a bit over a year

[missy]

Originally Posted by Vakarian

Just for clarification, there's no training done in Sydney is there? Meaning you'd have to relocate to Melbourne for a year or so?

Correct and they don't pay any relocation or assistance with rentals etc. In addition, very, very few trainees get assigned back to Sydney. The majority of trainees will be allocated Brisbane or Melbourne Centre. Good luck.

[Doggiedogs]

Originally Posted by corza

Did anyone in the PPRuNe world apply for the latest round of ATC Trainee before it closed?

Yeah just completed the online tests couple days ago, yet to do the occupational qs, How about you?

[totalreaction]

Originally Posted by corza

Did anyone in the PPRuNe world apply for the latest round of ATC Trainee before it closed?

Yup. Did you?

[corza]

Originally Posted by Doggiedogs

Yeah just completed the online tests couple days ago, yet to do the occupational qs, How about you?

I sure did, I've done the OPQ just waiting now. Keeping my expectations in check, but pretty excited for a new challenge!

[Johno3476]

Just curious if any of the other guys doing online testing atm received any information for the 'Third Suite' of testing that was due to come out today (19/07/21)?

[goody777]

Email today about the third stage of testing. Does anyone know if this is a recent addition to the procedure?
I haven't seen anything in this forum about something after the aptitude and OPQ tests and before a phone interview.

Will be interesting to see what it entails when they release the info in a few days.

[Doggiedogs]

Originally Posted by Johno3476

Just curious if any of the other guys doing online testing atm received any information for the 'Third Suite' of testing that was due to come out today (19/07/21)?

Yeah didnt get any info, just that they'd they'd get back soon. Hopefully doesn't mean that we're out.

[corza]

Has anyone heard anything back yet?

[goody777]

Nothing yet. Email last week said something mid this week. Hopefully something tomorrow or Friday. It seems from what I can read on this forum that the third stage of testing may be a new addition so they might be still sorting out some stuff.

[goody777]

Third stage of testing done, now the waiting game.

Any opinions from those that completed it? Personally I found the radar sim tests to be the most challenging, especially the ones with multitasking the maths equations.

Fingers crossed for good news.

[Teammenzies]

Originally Posted by goody777

Third stage of testing done, now the waiting game.

Any opinions from those that completed it? Personally I found the radar sim tests to be the most challenging, especially the ones with multitasking the maths equations.

Fingers crossed for good news.

I can’t say I’m all that confident with those tests! The multitasking maths/radar ones were a bit much, after a few rounds I started ignoring the maths questions because they were too distracting.

Good luck! Hopefully it won’t be a massive wait before we hear something.