Emirates - Wannabes & Recruitment V
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Same in Argentina
Hi Leti, I hope you're OK by this time.
Let me tell you a bit about my situation: I had my global assesment on Nov 22 2008 and my final interview on Nov 25 2008. A few weeks ago I received an email from my recruiter requesting me to re-send the pending documents in my file - photos, in my case - which I did. Apparently, the original photos were never received by them. A week later they emailed me asking me if I agreed to have my Annual Leave Destination switched from Cordoba to Buenos Aires. I just received that rejection email 2 days ago. A friend of mine is still waiting for a reply, and it's been like 11 weeks also. I just found out in the Emirates website that all open days and assessment days have been cancelled, including the one in Mar del Plata, which was one of the only few still up.
My email is the one saying that due to current crew needs, they will have to decline my application and that they "will contact me in 6-9 months time" to ask me if I still would like to be part of the company and they invite me to re-apply later.
I'm still trying to get over it. To be honest with you, I wanted the job soooooo bad, I even started making plans, postponing other things here, etc, only to be told this piece of bad news. But at least I was not notified about the job offer withdrawal 1 week before my DOJ, like some people here. Those guys and girls I'm REALLY sorry for
Where did you have your final interview? Where are you from?
Take care and good luck!
Let me tell you a bit about my situation: I had my global assesment on Nov 22 2008 and my final interview on Nov 25 2008. A few weeks ago I received an email from my recruiter requesting me to re-send the pending documents in my file - photos, in my case - which I did. Apparently, the original photos were never received by them. A week later they emailed me asking me if I agreed to have my Annual Leave Destination switched from Cordoba to Buenos Aires. I just received that rejection email 2 days ago. A friend of mine is still waiting for a reply, and it's been like 11 weeks also. I just found out in the Emirates website that all open days and assessment days have been cancelled, including the one in Mar del Plata, which was one of the only few still up.
My email is the one saying that due to current crew needs, they will have to decline my application and that they "will contact me in 6-9 months time" to ask me if I still would like to be part of the company and they invite me to re-apply later.
I'm still trying to get over it. To be honest with you, I wanted the job soooooo bad, I even started making plans, postponing other things here, etc, only to be told this piece of bad news. But at least I was not notified about the job offer withdrawal 1 week before my DOJ, like some people here. Those guys and girls I'm REALLY sorry for
Where did you have your final interview? Where are you from?
Take care and good luck!
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After my email I believe that everyone waiting for final yes after medicals will get the same withdrawel email- stating that wen new start dates r ready they will be in contact- as i understand it when they have set dates Im goin to be contacted!
they r not going to not recruit feb doj and recruit march doj! as they have just postponed the feb doj- i believe for 6-9 months! so the feb doj would be before the march doj!
of course i may be completely wrong im just trying to make myself feel better!
p.s.
they r not going to not recruit feb doj and recruit march doj! as they have just postponed the feb doj- i believe for 6-9 months! so the feb doj would be before the march doj!
of course i may be completely wrong im just trying to make myself feel better!
p.s.
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I see your point nrcrowth, but I don't get why they cancelled yours but are still going ahead with the one on Feb 27th? Feb 27th comes after yours! So confusing!
So I'm still holding onto the tiny little bit of hope that they may have one in March that they invite me to!
So confusing!So I'm still holding onto the tiny little bit of hope that they may have one in March that they invite me to!
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Intresting Article
From Arabian bussines.com
Emirates A380 won't fly until Sept 12
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/530285-emirates-a380-flights-suspended-until-sept-12
RE: Same in Argentina
CCArg: I´m very sorry to hear those news, it is very hard, it was too good to be truth!
I had my Open day in Mar del Plata- October the 20h- I think- and my assessment on November the 16th, also in Mar del Plata... I´m from Buenos Aires. I´m freaking-out right now, I also want this job so much, but I would be happy to have an answer (yes or no) and to know what to expect to organize my life in the future.
Good luck!!!
RE: Good news
YEAH!!!
Emirates A380 won't fly until Sept 12
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/530285-emirates-a380-flights-suspended-until-sept-12
RE: Same in Argentina
CCArg: I´m very sorry to hear those news, it is very hard, it was too good to be truth!
I had my Open day in Mar del Plata- October the 20h- I think- and my assessment on November the 16th, also in Mar del Plata... I´m from Buenos Aires. I´m freaking-out right now, I also want this job so much, but I would be happy to have an answer (yes or no) and to know what to expect to organize my life in the future.
Good luck!!!
RE: Good news
YEAH!!!
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Ok...so i got my rejection email this week...but i spoke to my friend who has recently stopped working for emirates but still has friends who are over there. Ive been told the following by him -
Pretty much all recruitment is slowing down / stopping to take new comers on till around june/july ish if things get better with the recession. He also said some of the cabin crew are having to take unpaid annual leave as the flights are only being filled half full and they arent making enough money. They have cancelled alot of flight routes for that exact reason as the flights arent filling up at the moment. I think all of us who got the email had all the right requirements, its just bad timing thats all.
Hopefully come 6 months down the track when we all get contacted again....things will be better and we can get over there. For the people who are still waiting on a reply, just have faith, you attract into your life what you hold in your mind, if you stress yourself out thinking you arent going to get the job, then you wont...just hold high spirits and i wish you the best of luck.
Pretty much all recruitment is slowing down / stopping to take new comers on till around june/july ish if things get better with the recession. He also said some of the cabin crew are having to take unpaid annual leave as the flights are only being filled half full and they arent making enough money. They have cancelled alot of flight routes for that exact reason as the flights arent filling up at the moment. I think all of us who got the email had all the right requirements, its just bad timing thats all.
Hopefully come 6 months down the track when we all get contacted again....things will be better and we can get over there. For the people who are still waiting on a reply, just have faith, you attract into your life what you hold in your mind, if you stress yourself out thinking you arent going to get the job, then you wont...just hold high spirits and i wish you the best of luck.
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Im sorry that you got the no email nrcrowth, and i understand where you are coming from.
I just want to point out that what you say is not correct. If you look back over the forum there are indeed some people with DOJ's on the 20th and now 27th that have final approval. Not everyone got cancelled. There were quite a few who had thier Feb 13 DOJ pushed back to the 20th too.
I would also like to point out that the people who have a DOJ on the 27th of Feb will actually be starting thier training in March a week after. I think this is a promising thing for those of us who have March DOJ's and are still waiting....there are rumors around abuot them cancelling all march courses but if they are starting one on about the 6th hopefully there will be others starting in march.
I realise that the chances do not look good, but im with skywards on this one....still holding on to a bit of hope. Im sure some of us with march joining dates will be among the unlucky ones but I think if they had already made the decsion to cancel all training then there is absolutly no reason that we would not have got the emails already. When I called earlier in the week i was told by the administrator that they were waiting on a managment decsion as to wether they have courses starting in march or not. Until we get the email there is still hope guys..so chins up. best to plan for the worst but hope for the best!!
I just want to point out that what you say is not correct. If you look back over the forum there are indeed some people with DOJ's on the 20th and now 27th that have final approval. Not everyone got cancelled. There were quite a few who had thier Feb 13 DOJ pushed back to the 20th too.
I would also like to point out that the people who have a DOJ on the 27th of Feb will actually be starting thier training in March a week after. I think this is a promising thing for those of us who have March DOJ's and are still waiting....there are rumors around abuot them cancelling all march courses but if they are starting one on about the 6th hopefully there will be others starting in march.
I realise that the chances do not look good, but im with skywards on this one....still holding on to a bit of hope. Im sure some of us with march joining dates will be among the unlucky ones but I think if they had already made the decsion to cancel all training then there is absolutly no reason that we would not have got the emails already. When I called earlier in the week i was told by the administrator that they were waiting on a managment decsion as to wether they have courses starting in march or not. Until we get the email there is still hope guys..so chins up. best to plan for the worst but hope for the best!!
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hey guys,
i went to the feb 7 assessment day in new york, probably the last one that was actually held. they picked about 7 people out of fifty and told us that they would call us for the final interview in 4-6 months. so i assume that in 6 months they may start hiring again.
hopefuly.
i went to the feb 7 assessment day in new york, probably the last one that was actually held. they picked about 7 people out of fifty and told us that they would call us for the final interview in 4-6 months. so i assume that in 6 months they may start hiring again.
hopefuly.
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hay i was the one wearing the beige suit everyone thought i worked for Emirates??? but yeah i did fly down for the week end with my gal friend but finger crossed things start happening soon, can you let me knoe if you get an e-mail about an interview?? thanks heaps jessi
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I see many of you guys are wondering what's the pattern. So here's my 2 cents: If you look at the post about people who did get their final approval or their ticket & visa, they all did so at the end of January or the first 2 to 3 days of Feb at best. My impression is that sometime at the end of last month, someone at EK finally got the whole picture,which is that you can't keep growing at the same pace in the face of a global economic crisis ("global" being the key word here) and more particularly in the face of dropping demand. Real estate speculation in Dubai has been a complete madness in the last few years and they are among the places worst hit by the crisis.Contrary to what many believe, Dubai is not your tipical oil-rich MidEast heaven and even if it was at the current price of oil it wouldn't be doing too good either. So, back to our particular case. Someone at EK managment finally realized that if they are going to get thru this and maybe even continue making a profit, expansion is not the way. So they plan to cut routes that have become unprofitable,maybe just increase the Indian and OZ ones in terms of frecuency, reduce the number of crew staffing the aircraft at the minimum and have already offered unpaid leave to employees. Now,anyone would agree that if the company you work for suddenly decides to offer you unpaid leave, things are not going well. So the way I see it,they are probably going to keep the aplicants who already have their final approval,maybe just shift their DOJ's around to keep the ab-initios at an even pace and be able to staff most of their aircraft ordered for the first half of this year.There are probabbly going to be some canceled aircraft orders,but it's gonna cost them more to cancel all of those they've ordered at once, not to mention the damage this would inflict on their corporate image. So instead of canceling everybody's offers at once, they're gonna do it a sip at a time, In the hopes of not atracting too much attention. So, as you see, unfortunately ot's not a matter of positive thinking (I ,of all wish it was) but of maths.
P.S. As I was writing this one of my friends who was supposed to fly on the 27th of Feb forwarded me that dreaded e-mail she recieved this morning. I guess I better start making calculations how much this whole odissey cost me and searching for my lawyers phone number....
P.S. As I was writing this one of my friends who was supposed to fly on the 27th of Feb forwarded me that dreaded e-mail she recieved this morning. I guess I better start making calculations how much this whole odissey cost me and searching for my lawyers phone number....
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Ok so here's a quick snapshot of my story so far, I applied in September, my final interview was October 8th in London, I got the golden call 5 weeks later and my medical forms came through a couple of days after that. Due to a massive mess-up by my doctors (and christmas falling halfway through) the medicals process took forever and I finally managed to submit the last of my completed forms on 27th January. My DOJ was originally 09/01/09, obviously this has moved as my medicals went on for a long time, I'm now also waiting for final approval, DOJ and visa and e-ticket. Haven't a clue what my chances are of getting out there, the people who got through on my interview day are already out there, they said they've heard rumours that courses are being delayed from April onwards but it's mainly hear'say so I'm not sure.
The one thing everyone has to remember is that these offers are only being withdrawn due to the economy, it has nothing to do with them changing their mind, as for thinking about suing them or anything else, forget it, they don't work like that, there's no proper legislation etc out there and besides, if they continued to hire everyone and expand at the rate they wanted to, in the current climate they'd probably go bust and we'd all be out of jobs anyway so be grateful they're just delaying course dates, Dubai thrives on tourism not oil (oil comes from Abu Dhabi) and the first thing that gets hit in such hard financial times is luxuries like holidays which is why they're suffering so much. We can only wait and keep our fingers crossed, it's not the end of the world if you get rejected, it just wasn't meant to be or you have to wait a while...
The one thing everyone has to remember is that these offers are only being withdrawn due to the economy, it has nothing to do with them changing their mind, as for thinking about suing them or anything else, forget it, they don't work like that, there's no proper legislation etc out there and besides, if they continued to hire everyone and expand at the rate they wanted to, in the current climate they'd probably go bust and we'd all be out of jobs anyway so be grateful they're just delaying course dates, Dubai thrives on tourism not oil (oil comes from Abu Dhabi) and the first thing that gets hit in such hard financial times is luxuries like holidays which is why they're suffering so much. We can only wait and keep our fingers crossed, it's not the end of the world if you get rejected, it just wasn't meant to be or you have to wait a while...
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finally got email from EK but not a good news!
good thing is i've been preparing for a while since i read this forum,
DOJ:27 March,offer withdrawn and will seek to re-contact when next course start dates confirmed !
good luck to everyone who's still waiting !
good thing is i've been preparing for a while since i read this forum,
DOJ:27 March,offer withdrawn and will seek to re-contact when next course start dates confirmed !
good luck to everyone who's still waiting !
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Gosh theres a lot of posts to read!
so have some peeps still got 20th feb as doj? when did you get the final offer?
anyone know if we can claim money back on medicals?
great news if you have- the lucky ones hey!
so have some peeps still got 20th feb as doj? when did you get the final offer?
anyone know if we can claim money back on medicals?
great news if you have- the lucky ones hey!
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nrcrowth norbu_boi
Let me be the first to correct you nrcrowth......I have a DOJ of the 20th and I have just received my visa and ticket!!! Yay!! Looking forward to seeing you norbu_boi!!
Yay!! Im an official expat!!
Yay!! Im an official expat!!
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East Coast Girl! - I was chosen at the Feb 7th New York day too. I was in the gray suit, a brunette with a ponytail. Are you the one working for Continental? Let's stay in touch. I work for USA 3000. Let me know if you hear anything 
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Yayyyy!!!
Hi got E-tkt and visa so im Dubai bound 
See you in Dubai norbu_boi and wish_2_fly x x
Its been a tense time but worth all the wait
Good luck guys, for all who are still waiting x x
See you in Dubai norbu_boi and wish_2_fly
x x Its been a tense time but worth all the wait
Good luck guys, for all who are still waiting x x
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hi nickg102, i was the blond in light grey suit. i was so excited that day but i kept wondering why we did not have the final inerview within a few days like everyone else, so i started searching on line for some info and this web site just killed all my hope.
how is usa 3000 treating you?
how is usa 3000 treating you?
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27th March cancelled
Hi all!! Today 2 more people from my interview who were flying on 27th March 2009 got the withdrawn e-mail and other one got a very ridiculous email:
This is regarding your final interview with Emirates for the position of Cabin Crew. Despite repeated attempts to contact you via telephone and e-mail, unfortunately we have not been able to reach you regarding the outcome of your application. We will assume that you are no longer interested in the Cabin Crew position and your file will be closed with immediate effect.
It happens that the boy who got this mail was calling and sending mails to Emirates like crazy!!
:/ buuuu!!!
This is regarding your final interview with Emirates for the position of Cabin Crew. Despite repeated attempts to contact you via telephone and e-mail, unfortunately we have not been able to reach you regarding the outcome of your application. We will assume that you are no longer interested in the Cabin Crew position and your file will be closed with immediate effect.
It happens that the boy who got this mail was calling and sending mails to Emirates like crazy!!
:/ buuuu!!!
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This Is So Crazy...
I don't understand anything of this terrible ordeal no more...
I have a feeling that luck has to be in favor of all those who are taken on even after medicals...
anyone considered consulting their horoscopes!!??
I wish I had a Sheikh as a distant cousin, I just pick up the phone, make one call and I would have definitely been IN!!
Ok I'm just trying tobe cheerful...
I have a feeling that luck has to be in favor of all those who are taken on even after medicals...
anyone considered consulting their horoscopes!!??
I wish I had a Sheikh as a distant cousin, I just pick up the phone, make one call and I would have definitely been IN!!
Ok I'm just trying tobe cheerful...