hi everyone!

just wondering, what does the medical test entail? (in as much detail as possible)

Is it an expensive process? I have a friend who just got her meds done for Emirates, and she spent $700

Congrats and goodluck to all starting ground school
 

I read lots of poeple saying "i spoke to my recruiter" just wanted to get an idea do many or most people call there recruiter as in those people on the waitlist that have not had medicals or references?

Simone511
 

Firstly they give you a couple of pages to fill out that ask you all about your medical history ie. have you ever been to hospital, if so what for, any medical conditions you have or have had, any medications you have taken long term or are taking etc etc. It's fairly thorough.
Then a nurse will test eyesight, hearing, blood pressure, check height and weight and take a urine sample for drug testing.
Then you will see a doctor who goes through all the information, asks a few questions, and then gives a physical examination. You'll be asked to bend down and touch your toes, You'll be asked to lie down, lift each leg as high as you can keeping it straight. They check for hernia's by getting you to breath deeply while they feel around your stomach, and check heart beat etc Then you sit up, extend your arms straight out in front of you (shoulder height) and have to push up, down, left, right, against the doctors hands. Thats pretty much it.
I did mine In Sydney and It cost about $150 from memory

Hope that helps... :ok:

Thanks heaps Air Freight!

Doesn't sound too full on then!

dyal1 (and others waiting for Melbourne recruitment)
 

Hi dyal1!

If you haven't been on the recruitment website in the last few days, they've started accepting applications for Melbourne based Cabin Crew.

Good luck!

gs
 

how is the sep ground school going?

hey guys an update first week is fairly ok....next 4 are going to so intense so much studying to do!!!!!!

Skybus to airport is easy, you can get a monthly ticket. Need ASIC to get discount. Walking would take you a good 45 mins. Taxi costs about $12. Best get the cab upstairs as the drivers picking up people downstairs get mighty vocal and angry for a $12 Fare.

Oh la laaaa
 

Virgin Domestic is recruiting again for Melbourne Cabin Crew :}

And about transport to the training centre, if its still at Qantas in Essendon (as I believe thats where they do the training..) there are trams going down that road too! (Forget the roads name...) :p

Virgin has its own training centre Scooby, only time you need to go to the QF sim centre is for revals.

have found from experience that most recruitment days/interviews tend to be held (regardless of what airline) at a large hotel/conference centre in the CBD area of the city they're recruiting for.

Qantas training centre in Ess mostly used for ground schools and re-training

dyal1,

Sounds like you may have been at the same VRD with me back on Oct 4th '07, hence not being eligible to reapply for 1 year.
I know I did not perform very well at all that morning, and was not surprised not to make it through to the afternoon interviews.

But, 12 months later, far more prepared and fingers crossed....

does anyone have information on Virgin Blue opening a Perth base? Have been reading through some of the previous posts but im a bit confused. Are they just using existing VB crew to do the Perth flights, or will they be hiring Perth crew? Any information would be much appreciated.

You can always see when they are hiring externally by checking out their website in the careers section. All available opportunities are listed there. Until you see it there, they're not hiring. :ok:

virgin blue melb
 

hey rmondo
i actually went to the oct 3rd 2007 VRD so we just missed eachother:sad: but we might have crossed paths at the MAM interview, i went to the may 28th session but know there were two recruitment days following. virgin blue was my first airline interview and looking back i did really bad, i wouldnt have chosen myself if i was a recruiter lol but i have a lot more experience 1 year down the track and know ill will make a far better impression this time around. :ok:

PER base internal expression of interest atm but watch the website for more info as I think its going to have to happen sooner rather than later.

Hi Dyal1. Looks like I missed you by one day again. My MAM RD was May 29th this year, and still on hold after having ref checks done.

Maybe our paths will cross at the next Virgin RD - hope so.:ok:

Relocating
 

Good Morning, So is anyone relocating to Sydney???
Looking for accomodation???

Hey Dyal1,
How did you go with Tiger..?

I just received the "thanks, but try back in 6 months" email from MAM.
Will keep my fingers crossed for a RD day with Virgin, and also resubmitted resume with Tiger, though I'm not sure about the stories I'm hearing about having to pay for your training..!!

Hey guys,

Just got an email from VB:

"As you are aware you are currently on our waitlist in the process for Sydney Cabin Crew with Virgin Blue. We are asking for expressions of interest for those of you that may be interested in transferring to the Melbourne Cabin Crew waitlist.
We have a few possible Melbourne Training Schools in the pipeline and we would like to give our candidates that are already on a waitlist preference to progress through our process"

Anyone else get the same email???

I'd be happy for any email at this stage.

MEL would be good...!

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.

Melb overnights
 

Any melbourne crew here that could give me an idea of how many overnights melbourne does?

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.

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

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.

As long as you haven't been rejected by the VB Group in the past 12 months then yes you can, since you are no longer in a recruitment process with them. :ok:

anyone on here going through the recruitment process with VB at the moment?
This thread has gone quiet recently!

FYI some insight into the VBRD
 

Due to popular demand... I have deleted this post
 

Quote:

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I know I'm spoiling it, and VB says 'its confidential'

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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! :ok:

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

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. :uhoh:

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?

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.

Laughing at you
 

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.:*

djflygirl - have just seen on the VB website that they're recruiting for Sydney based cc. Good luck, I hope you get an invite!

My apologies DJflygirl- you are right, and I am sorry.

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