Virgin Australia - Wannabes & Recruitment
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Just remember transfer may take longer than you expect. It can be very frustrating waiting for this to happen.
The next SYD school may happen a week after the MEL one you just never know.
One guy from OOL wanted BNE bad and was convinced after several phone calls from recruitment that BNE wouldn't be recruiting for a while. He took MEL. A week after he started a training group was announced in BNE which he was quite peeved about. 6 months later without a transfer in sight he jumped ship in OOL and left a plane short crewed.
The next SYD school may happen a week after the MEL one you just never know.
One guy from OOL wanted BNE bad and was convinced after several phone calls from recruitment that BNE wouldn't be recruiting for a while. He took MEL. A week after he started a training group was announced in BNE which he was quite peeved about. 6 months later without a transfer in sight he jumped ship in OOL and left a plane short crewed.
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Hi iam Melb based and have been getting between 10-12 per mth for the last 6 mths but only in SYD and CBR and only doin E-jet trips i am 737 trained aswell but hardly ever work on it. 737 crew dont get many overnites prob 5 per mth lots of crew with only daytrips.
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RMONDO - Have you tried Jetstar. I believe from a reliable source that they will be hiring again very very soon and applications should be submitted quickly for a quick start date
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thanks jetsolo,
I was actually in a jetstar ground school early this year but had to jump out before it finished due to a small business I had, and person I had taking over business jumped out at last minute - so had to go back and save business for another day.
That isn't an issue now, but am not eligible for jetstar again till mid Jan '09.
Just received an invite though for a V australia recruitment day in couple of weeks.
Thanks again for your suggestion.
I was actually in a jetstar ground school early this year but had to jump out before it finished due to a small business I had, and person I had taking over business jumped out at last minute - so had to go back and save business for another day.
That isn't an issue now, but am not eligible for jetstar again till mid Jan '09.
Just received an invite though for a V australia recruitment day in couple of weeks.
Thanks again for your suggestion.
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I know I'm spoiling it, and VB says 'its confidential'
It's great that you want to help out others going through the recruitment process, but in order to keep the process fair for all, such specific information such as exactly what the role play scenarios are should be kept to yourself. The role plays are designed to see how quickly one can think on their feet and come up with a solution, and if others are getting the scenarios well before others, it's simply not fair.
Sure, provide information that is of a general nature such as the outline for the day, but think before posting the other stuff...
Good luck!
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Hi Scoobydoodoo,
Thanks for all the great info on the VB recruitment day, I'm sure it will come in handy if...no I should say 'when' I finally get an invite.
I have heard that recruitment read these forums, I hope you won't get in trouble for posting the info.
Thanks for the heads up
Thanks for all the great info on the VB recruitment day, I'm sure it will come in handy if...no I should say 'when' I finally get an invite.
I have heard that recruitment read these forums, I hope you won't get in trouble for posting the info.
Thanks for the heads up
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I'm pretty sure recruitment will know exactly who scoobydoodoo is, given the amount of information posted on here. Unfortunately I don't think that last post will help her application much. 
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Mmm, Not Sure
I Understand Recruitment make the Final Decision But
I have to say I would be amazed if recruitment staff had time to be reading through forum posts on the job, or "would they do it in their own time?" after 20 or 30 interviews, & what if they have 3 Vrdays in a row, you could be talking 60 or more people trying to work out which person they interviewed, then assuming who may or may not have posted, it would be extremely time consuming and certainly not cost effective, having staff making assumptions and not to progress a good candidate on the assumption they think it is that person. "BIG CALL"
I have no doubt, they probably do have a look at the forums from time to time, but to make a conscious decision to try and catch someone out.
I dunno?
Unless someone here, knows who some forumites are, and some of the recruiters, and forwards information on,
Who knows?
I have to say I would be amazed if recruitment staff had time to be reading through forum posts on the job, or "would they do it in their own time?" after 20 or 30 interviews, & what if they have 3 Vrdays in a row, you could be talking 60 or more people trying to work out which person they interviewed, then assuming who may or may not have posted, it would be extremely time consuming and certainly not cost effective, having staff making assumptions and not to progress a good candidate on the assumption they think it is that person. "BIG CALL"
I have no doubt, they probably do have a look at the forums from time to time, but to make a conscious decision to try and catch someone out.
I dunno?
Unless someone here, knows who some forumites are, and some of the recruiters, and forwards information on,
Who knows?
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Its well known that airlines do read these forums and in the past candidates have received "no thanks" emails after posting on here. Whether or not the two are related nobody knows for sure. It's just good personal practice not to post anything on here that you wouldn't say to a recruiter face to face.
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Laughing at you
Hello, why the hell are any of you on here then?!
I thought it was to gain insight into their process!
Let me give you some direction AirborneSoon, DJflygirl, DJCCGuy... log out/delete your account and don't bother coming back onto such forums if you don't wanna know jack.
And I'm sure there are one or two recruiters who weed through here- but certainly not in their work time, and most likely in their personal time at home!
Having several of my friends done ground schools, they were warned about posting on such forum sites... and two of them continued- nothing happened!
Unless they recruiters are super smart IT nerds (in which case, why on earth work a CC job when you can earn three times more in the corporate world..) they're not gonna be able to track me down through my ISP and laptop- they're not privy to those sorts of information, they're not the Federal Police.
Besides, as steffie said, they've been recruiting several days in a row, in several different states. If I get in or not will depend based on my performance on the day and NOT what I do in my personal time (such as post here).
Hell, I could be a gay loving, gang-bang f&*$ing groupie- if thats where I get my kicks, they can't descriminate.
They'd be hard pressed to nail this to my name "scoobydoobydoo, where are you?"
LOL you must think me a fool, as if I would give exact specifics of dates/places/numbers didn't you think I changed it slightly at the very least?
So anyway- if you don't like my insights, either skip over reading my posts in future or skiddadle entirely (<----doesn't have an icon with a middle finger, unfortunately...)
Ungrateful a-holes...
I thought it was to gain insight into their process!
Let me give you some direction AirborneSoon, DJflygirl, DJCCGuy... log out/delete your account and don't bother coming back onto such forums if you don't wanna know jack.
And I'm sure there are one or two recruiters who weed through here- but certainly not in their work time, and most likely in their personal time at home!
Having several of my friends done ground schools, they were warned about posting on such forum sites... and two of them continued- nothing happened!
Unless they recruiters are super smart IT nerds (in which case, why on earth work a CC job when you can earn three times more in the corporate world..) they're not gonna be able to track me down through my ISP and laptop- they're not privy to those sorts of information, they're not the Federal Police.
Besides, as steffie said, they've been recruiting several days in a row, in several different states. If I get in or not will depend based on my performance on the day and NOT what I do in my personal time (such as post here).
Hell, I could be a gay loving, gang-bang f&*$ing groupie- if thats where I get my kicks, they can't descriminate.
They'd be hard pressed to nail this to my name "scoobydoobydoo, where are you?"
LOL you must think me a fool, as if I would give exact specifics of dates/places/numbers didn't you think I changed it slightly at the very least?
So anyway- if you don't like my insights, either skip over reading my posts in future or skiddadle entirely
(<----doesn't have an icon with a middle finger, unfortunately...)Ungrateful a-holes...
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Hey Scoobydoodoo,
You need to calm down a bit there. All I said was ... "I have heard that recruitment read these forums, I hope you won't get in trouble for posting the info"
I wasn't having a go at you in any way. I actually thanked you for the info.
You need to calm down a bit there. All I said was ... "I have heard that recruitment read these forums, I hope you won't get in trouble for posting the info"
I wasn't having a go at you in any way. I actually thanked you for the info.
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Confidentiality
Who is information to be kept confidential from,
Does that mean you can't tell your mother, father, siblings, cousins etc?
Don't worry, we can all wait 30 years then scoobydoodoo can tell us the true story under the "freedom of information act"
After all scoobydoodoo didn't tell anyone, he typed a "blurp" on an internet site
Does that mean you can't tell your mother, father, siblings, cousins etc?
Don't worry, we can all wait 30 years then scoobydoodoo can tell us the true story under the "freedom of information act"
After all scoobydoodoo didn't tell anyone, he typed a "blurp" on an internet site