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Yes, good luck indeed to all those who have been selected. I wish you all well in the next week or two.
Just to add to the joy that we have bought I have also posted on this forum that we are interviewing 8 students on the 19th. Five of whom have been selected, subject to interview, to receive a BGS course and to have a GAPAN aptitude test at RAF Cranwell, also paid for by the fund.
In the next couple of months we will also join with GAPAN in their annual PPL sponsorships by donating £3000 towards three or four of these. This will be good for PPRuNe and enhance our association with GAPAN.
I personally have been looking forward to this year for a very long time and now that we are giving people their first steps into the airlines I am thrilled to bits.
More will follow. But right now I am desperate to build the fund still further so watch out I may be after your money.
IFR
Just to add to the joy that we have bought I have also posted on this forum that we are interviewing 8 students on the 19th. Five of whom have been selected, subject to interview, to receive a BGS course and to have a GAPAN aptitude test at RAF Cranwell, also paid for by the fund.
In the next couple of months we will also join with GAPAN in their annual PPL sponsorships by donating £3000 towards three or four of these. This will be good for PPRuNe and enhance our association with GAPAN.
I personally have been looking forward to this year for a very long time and now that we are giving people their first steps into the airlines I am thrilled to bits.
More will follow. But right now I am desperate to build the fund still further so watch out I may be after your money.
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Just read this and I AM KICKING MYSELF!!!!
Available on all those dates...
Money in the bank....
Gatwick 25 mins away from home...
Where was I all the rest of this week? Not checking PPRuNe, that's where!
Lesson learned
Available on all those dates...
Money in the bank....
Gatwick 25 mins away from home...
Where was I all the rest of this week? Not checking PPRuNe, that's where!
Lesson learned
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Hardest Part
This is definatley the hardest part, getting the chance to do what we trained for:
Its frustrating but credit to all who managed to get in, i just hope for an opportunity soon like most. I applied for this scheme but like others not this time.
Ill keep chipping away, with an axe if need be. Good luck to those who make the selection grade
Its frustrating but credit to all who managed to get in, i just hope for an opportunity soon like most. I applied for this scheme but like others not this time.
Ill keep chipping away, with an axe if need be. Good luck to those who make the selection grade
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26 hours after the deadline for accepting applications they are still rolling in. It's fairly obvious some people do not read the threads in great detail which leads on to wonder how they would get on with manuals. Believe me, there are an awful lot of manuals you have to get to know your way around once you are working in a jet job.
Total applications received so far: 357.
Total applications received so far: 357.
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I think that the reason for the applications still rolling in is more likely out of sheer desperation rather than inability to read! The volume of applications received is an indication of the sad state of the current job opportunities!
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Maybe. Just to reiterate though, we are not accepting any applications. Any received are not read. We have selected our candidates for the next stage.
On a slightly different note, it suprised me that so many people use unreliable email ser4vices such as hotmail. Many people who were notified didn't receive their notifications immediately because hotmail decided that it didn't like email from us for whatever reason.
Also, many responses were filtered out by my anti-spam software because of those silly little free ads that many email service providers like to append to your email if you are using their free service. Due to the amount of spam that does the rounds, I have filters that look for advertising and automatically trash emails that have ads in them or appended to them.
I'd like to suggest to all of you out there that should you have to rely on email for important information then you invest in an email service provider that gives you plain vanilla email without all the free ads etc that the other services attach after you send it. It's a tiny investment for something that can be so important. It also makes sure your emails aren't treated as spam by others who have to have fairly high level spam filters in place.
On a slightly different note, it suprised me that so many people use unreliable email ser4vices such as hotmail. Many people who were notified didn't receive their notifications immediately because hotmail decided that it didn't like email from us for whatever reason.
Also, many responses were filtered out by my anti-spam software because of those silly little free ads that many email service providers like to append to your email if you are using their free service. Due to the amount of spam that does the rounds, I have filters that look for advertising and automatically trash emails that have ads in them or appended to them.
I'd like to suggest to all of you out there that should you have to rely on email for important information then you invest in an email service provider that gives you plain vanilla email without all the free ads etc that the other services attach after you send it. It's a tiny investment for something that can be so important. It also makes sure your emails aren't treated as spam by others who have to have fairly high level spam filters in place.
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Another rejects question:
How many of the selected are British? Please note that if I was on a selection board, I would probably take as many locals as possible, but just for the sake of my own pride, I would like to hear that most selected were British (from my spelling, it must be painfully obvious to you that I am foreign).
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How many of the selected are British? Please note that if I was on a selection board, I would probably take as many locals as possible, but just for the sake of my own pride, I would like to hear that most selected were British (from my spelling, it must be painfully obvious to you that I am foreign).
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And can I just add a note.
I've had a load of PM's from people asking me for advice on how to get into the Astraeus scheme. The vast majority of them have been from people that I don't know. While I'm happy to give advice as much as I can, I have been unable to reply to all of the mails I have received. I apologise for this but I'm currently running around like a blue bottomed fly and only have so much time to spend on line right now.
As I'm no longer with Astraeus, and it's been three years since I got into the cadetship, I feel my advice would be somewhat limited anyway, and I do find it diffifcult to recall what the selection was like (the sim ride was a blur, I honestly can't remember what it entailed!).
So best of luck to all, apologies to those I couldn't reply to but give it your best and learn from it, even if you don't progress. As with all things in aviation, your biggest hurdle is always the next one, so take a good run at it.
I've had a load of PM's from people asking me for advice on how to get into the Astraeus scheme. The vast majority of them have been from people that I don't know. While I'm happy to give advice as much as I can, I have been unable to reply to all of the mails I have received. I apologise for this but I'm currently running around like a blue bottomed fly and only have so much time to spend on line right now.
As I'm no longer with Astraeus, and it's been three years since I got into the cadetship, I feel my advice would be somewhat limited anyway, and I do find it diffifcult to recall what the selection was like (the sim ride was a blur, I honestly can't remember what it entailed!).
So best of luck to all, apologies to those I couldn't reply to but give it your best and learn from it, even if you don't progress. As with all things in aviation, your biggest hurdle is always the next one, so take a good run at it.
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Danny - A little harsh don't you think!?
26 hours after the deadline for accepting applications they are still rolling in. It's fairly obvious some people do not read the threads in great detail which leads on to wonder how they would get on with manuals. Believe me, there are an awful lot of manuals you have to get to know your way around once you are working in a jet job.
I thought you would have been one of the first people to advocate not giving up, i.e. let the recruiter decide there's no sodding chance!
Best of luck to all those selected! Let us all know how you get on!
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Apologies if my tone was misinterpreted by some. I have nothing against people trying whatever they can to get themselves noticed. There comes a point though when persistence can become a nuisance. You have to be careful. My post about people still applying was an attempt to stop people wasting their time. Believe it or not I am still receiving applications today!
On the point of applying after the deadline in case someone drops out, please remember that we had a huge number who applied before the deadline. In fact, we did have one drop out and a shortlisted candidate was invited to the assessment as a replacement. We were able to choose a substitute from within those applicants that submitted their emails before the deadline. It is a cruel world sometimes but we just set the limits and then sort through the applications.
It is equally frustrating for us when there are so many applicants. We had to choose 26 and using various criteria we narrowed it down. Just because someone wasn't selected doesn't mean that they wouldn't have been able to complete a B757 type rating. It just means that we had to reduce the numbers to something we could cope with on the day. After Saturday there are going to be some more disappointed candidates who are not selected for the sim assessment and after the sim assessments there are going to be more disappointed candidates who don't make one of the four places available on the course.
You can't win them all and the enthusiasm that many of you show is commendable but you also have to learn to live with not always making a success the first time around.
On the point of applying after the deadline in case someone drops out, please remember that we had a huge number who applied before the deadline. In fact, we did have one drop out and a shortlisted candidate was invited to the assessment as a replacement. We were able to choose a substitute from within those applicants that submitted their emails before the deadline. It is a cruel world sometimes but we just set the limits and then sort through the applications.
It is equally frustrating for us when there are so many applicants. We had to choose 26 and using various criteria we narrowed it down. Just because someone wasn't selected doesn't mean that they wouldn't have been able to complete a B757 type rating. It just means that we had to reduce the numbers to something we could cope with on the day. After Saturday there are going to be some more disappointed candidates who are not selected for the sim assessment and after the sim assessments there are going to be more disappointed candidates who don't make one of the four places available on the course.
You can't win them all and the enthusiasm that many of you show is commendable but you also have to learn to live with not always making a success the first time around.
