Where does this unwritten 24 month ‘black ban’ come from?

Group Policy says the following:

‘Where are former (or current) Employee is being considered for a position with a different Qantas group company within 3 months of their termination date, approval is required from Corporate Industrial Relations’

:rolleyes:

don’t give up mate, I got in the third attempt at age 45. I was happy in between applications to join hence the age bit!

It could be a myriad of reasons. For the recruitment period just closed I believe they had thousands of applicants for a few hundred positions. I guess a lot of suitable people weren’t lucky enough to get invited for testing. And a lot who did won’t make the final cut.

As others have said some are successful after multiple applications (and current plans have them recruiting hundreds per year for a decade) so there’s nothing precluding you from joining in the future, or with your jet experience there are a lot of opportunities in a market where het experienced pilots are in demand.

SHL Test
 

Hi anyone having issues completing the SHL test its saying I have missed the deadline my test was due for completion at 23:00 on the 6th December ? I just have the personality one to do.

Had the email say "tuesday, 6th Dec at 2300" double checked via the actual link last night and it was due 05 at 2300. Caught it luckily

Did it say Tuesday the 6th of December? I heard of a few people getting that and almost missing the deadline. Maybe you can get ahold of recruiting and explain your situation if that’s the case and have them extend the date?

My email said 4th December however SHL link when clicked indicated the 5th December 2300.

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SHL Test
 

Hi All,

I also just had an issue trying to take the SHL assessment with a "This link is not currently valid" message.

I double checked the deadline and it said Tuesday 06 December 2023, 2300 AEDST. Obviously there is a discrepancy between the day and the date, but one which I hadn't previously noted.

From recent posts on this thread, it looks like the deadline was set in the testing system to 5 Dec 2300 AEDST.

I see I am not the only one caught out by this. I have replied to the email with an explanation of the situation and a plea for an extension.

Does anyone know if that email box is actually monitored or outgoing only? Am I SOL?

UPDATE:

For anyone stuck in the same situation, I received a reply to my email and they recognised there was a problem and have issued a new link to complete the assessments with a deadline extension.

Is there no psych tests for internals this time?

This rumour circulates every year after internals don’t get psych testing when externals do.
You will still do a psych test, it’s just staggered with the external psych tests. No idea why you do them second.

Thankfully they have sorted this very promptly :)

Waiting
 

Anyone heard back since doing the SHL test last round? Been over 2 weeks and still haven't heard back yet

It’s not a super fast process. Sit back and relax.

Hopefully a good thing if you haven’t heard.

On a side note what month courses are they filling? Must be near the end of hold pool now.

March courses have been filled and there will be no more allocations for the remainder of the year.

sure about that?

I would be very surprised if that were the case, given the rumoured training allocations for next year.

Surely Swept-Wing means, no more allocations to 2024 classes for the rest of THIS year, which would make sense.

Sorry, poorly worded.
What I meant is Talent Aquisition is finished for 2023 and no more calls in December will go out for April starts Etc.

Emails just went out…