Mango waffles
 

Thanks for the info, that's a great help. I have updated my application today, so fingers crossed I get invited to an AD.

Good luck to everyone going to AD's soon and people waiting. ;)

JacintaMerri

Hey I hope so too haha! I really hope I get in either late feb or early march! The earlier the better though haha!!!

Well medical tmrw so hopefully the end of the week some sort of response haha... Thinking very positive haha

i had to wait around 2 months before i got my call.. then after my call it was another 8 weeks until ground school so a long wait!

i had problems with my application though which is why i had to wait longer than everyone else. i lived and worked overseas for 2 years so they wanted to process that security check also before they approved me.

this is my timeline -

4 Oct - AD
10 Oct - got a call requesting additional info for reference check
11 Oct - Reference checks completed
20 Oct - Medical & Security email
26 Oct - Did Medicals, sent in Money for Security

waited for a long time - emailed them and they kept telling me it was waiting a security clearance. eventually found out that they werent aware that i'd sent them my overseas clearance before in previous emails. Then told me they would follow it up right away (this was around late november)

16 Dec - Golden call!
10 Feb - Ground school!!

Mangowaffles

How long ago did u work away since you applied?


Cause I used to live in Singapore till I was 20 and now am 24 so guess my security check will take forever then? Lol

you should be fine.

its only if its within the last 12 months, and i only came back just last june so i had to provide one.

This is what they emailed me before i attended AD.

Most importantly, if you have resided and worked overseas in the last 12 months (not on a working holiday) you will be required to complete an overseas police clearance in that country (including NZ). If this applies to you please contact us for more information. We recommend you take the steps necessary to obtain the overseas police clearance (if applicable, to your circumstances) as soon as possible as waiting times can be lengthy.

i took care of it before i even went to AD because i thought it might've taken long for it to come back. It didn't but then recruitment forgot about it which is why i waited a little bit longer than others.

frustrating at the time (i think everyone knows how that feels... just waiting and not knowing anything lol) but it was worth it in the end and now i don't even remember all that waiting haha

Mangowaffles

Thanks so much for ur advice :) let's see how it goes then ay haha :) keeping my fingers cross throughout!

Like Marly & emma-loo have submitted an application for Perth.
Can anybody give me a heads up on the AD q&a's should I make it to panel? And do your references need to be a direct manager or can it be somebody else like a pilot or EP's instructor or owner? And any info on training school like accommodation is it shared? Length isit 7 weeks ground only or does that inc all in-flight training & check to line? do you go to home base for in-flight training & check to line? And what's the schedule like random hours? I wouldn't expect 9-5 cheers any info would be appreciated :ok:

shelbs

i havent started GS yet but have already been given the timetable for it so i'll let you know what i can see.

ground school is 7 weeks, give or take a few days. it will be conducted all in sydney, and looks like 1 day in melbourne. i dont think you will be trained anything in your home base, im from sydney though so i cant comment on that part as the interstate people may have been given different instructions to me.. not sure about accommodation either, sorry =/

the ground school hours are very random, some 8:30 starts, some 4pm starts, some 5:30am starts. i think one time a person told me that they started training at 3am and finished at 10 in the morning! nothing like that is on my timetable though. also, ground school is also conducted on weekends! with a few random weekdays off here and there.

good luck!

Shelbs
I also start on 10th but have different timetable than mangowaffles. My earliest start is 5:30 am and the latest finish is 2:15 am, Melbourne for 1 day. Some days are not specified what time I start and finish like (uniform fittings).

As everybody has differnt timeline from AD to GS this is example of mine:
28.10. - AD
01.12. - Medical & Security email
15.12. - Medical (Sydney Jetbase) Thursday afternoon
19.12. - Golden call Monday morning
10.02. - GS
From my AD one girl got her successfull email 2 weeks earlier then me. She started her GS 9.12. and graduated last week.


mangowaffles
have you completed your online EP's modules?

Thanks for the info guys, keep us posted on g/s if you get time - lol
Good luck

my last day of work was last friday so i have this week free to do it, might start today =)

AD booked for this friday
That was a pritty fast turn around onely put the application in late last week.
Have just done the hogan assessment online - very random and strange questions.

What is with MAM. they are recruiting big time yet have so many people on wait lists and waiting to get placed. Why recruit when there's so many people waiting for GS's and to hear back for start dates. Seems strange. I know they want to sift through people and find the right people but to keep holding ADs and have new applications through all the time whilst having a backlog doesn't seem fair or feasible. Just weird.

Why not place people first and book GSs for those waiting. Then advertise later. Adding more in the system will just clog it more for those already waiting wouldn't it!?

I am attending the MAM recruitment day in Adelaide on 16th Feb, super excited! I can't wait to (hopefully) get to the stage a lot of you are at.

Sydneysider88

Amen to that.

It's true. More and more ADs keep coming up yet there's many many people waiting. It will only add to backlog and not fair if groups now supersede groups who applied last year and got through who are waiting for starts. How many people do they need then, because theyre going to either cull massively or have many GSs.

Strange strange.

I completely agree with you...it's ridiculous what they're doing. They'll be losing a lot of valuable possible employees to other airlines or industries.


Maybe they just have a ridiculously high turn-over rate? They seem to have a GS starting every week or so! (feel free to correct!)

Or maybe they're just trying to build s huge applicant pool and not planning on hiring?

I guess we'll never know!

And p.s - my ground school started today! Looks like it's going to be fun! (but still no word from Qantas)

Yes I have to say that I agree too - at the Melbourne AD 3 weeks ago they said that we could be waiting for as long as 6 months to start training!! It's very strange... and gosh we all work so hard to get to this point too. I was told that "you WILL be called WITHIN the next 2 weeks" to organise reference checks and what not. But umm yeah... not a thing since. Do they even let us know if we didn't make it? :ugh:

I hope they do let us know!
That's so strange at my ad in Sydney. We were told hey would let us know in 2-3 weeks if we got it and when training was. Load of crap I think. Just the standard talk. There are way too many applicants ATM.

So I'm not getting my hopes up to hear soon. If I do then I guess I'll be lucky :)

Yep that's exactly it Sydneysider88 haha! Goodluck! How long ago was your AD? mine was 3 weeks ago