Aer Lingus Cadet (merged 2011)
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I opted for using an expensive courier service to post my CV to Aer Lingus rather than the email option. Whether this showed them my enthusiasm/desperation is unclear but I received the email about two weeks later saying my application had been processed.
Once again, fingers crossed
Once again, fingers crossed
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As an aside we were told a few months back that Flight Ops had received over 3000 applications for the FO slots. No doubt it has increased since then after they readvertised.
Originally I understand we were looking for 50 new pilots, although this seems to be a moving target. If you made a reasoned guess that they would interview say 10 for each slot then that is 500 people to invite forward. This equates to only a 17% chance of being called up. If you were lucky to get the job then that is a 2% chance out of the original 3000 applications.
Probably no different odds to any other first time job going and highlights just how few people will get a job once they have completed their training. Good luck.
Originally I understand we were looking for 50 new pilots, although this seems to be a moving target. If you made a reasoned guess that they would interview say 10 for each slot then that is 500 people to invite forward. This equates to only a 17% chance of being called up. If you were lucky to get the job then that is a 2% chance out of the original 3000 applications.
Probably no different odds to any other first time job going and highlights just how few people will get a job once they have completed their training. Good luck.
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Aer Lingus Cadet Pilot Recruitment (Part-Sponsored)
In the not so distance future (Before september 2011!), Aer Lingus may advertise a 75% sponsored cadet pilot programme.
I have started this thread to hopefully aid, discuss & compare when the recruitment does go ahead.
Alot of you will wonder, "why bother with a sponsored cadet programme"?, in short, Aer Lingus would prefer to recruit their own frock of first officers, they have good reasons for this new move.
Coming up on 10 years since 9/11, since sponsorships have ended, and the airline industry is starting to really miss there own hand picked and company trained pilots.
The tides may be turning (For good this time), the bean-counters have had the ball for far too long !
Refresh the Aer Lingus Careers page, check the Irish Indepandant ! Thats all I will say...
I have started this thread to hopefully aid, discuss & compare when the recruitment does go ahead.
Alot of you will wonder, "why bother with a sponsored cadet programme"?, in short, Aer Lingus would prefer to recruit their own frock of first officers, they have good reasons for this new move.
Coming up on 10 years since 9/11, since sponsorships have ended, and the airline industry is starting to really miss there own hand picked and company trained pilots.
The tides may be turning (For good this time), the bean-counters have had the ball for far too long !
Refresh the Aer Lingus Careers page, check the Irish Indepandant ! Thats all I will say...
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is a 2% chance out of the original 3000 applications.
you make more money in a casino.
f...aviation!
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Hi Markerry,
While I agree with just about all you have said in your post, Im just curious where you got the figure of 75% towards sponsorship for the training from? Ive been keeping a very close eye on this cadetship and have yet to hear what exactly they will offer....
While I agree with just about all you have said in your post, Im just curious where you got the figure of 75% towards sponsorship for the training from? Ive been keeping a very close eye on this cadetship and have yet to hear what exactly they will offer....
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Skyways, you have heard of the saying: 'A bird in the hand being worth two in the bush'.
I've seen some very rose tinted views of this potential cadet scheme in various fora. I have to say, being a cynical old goat, that it is probably misplaced. The best you can probably expect is help with a loan. There are several well established examples of a mix of funding and help with loans for cadetships. I simply cannot see Aer Lingus providing money up front themselves. Not given their current attempts at cutting everywhere in the airline. It might be that the optimists in the pilot training side are proposing various sponsored schemes but you have to wonder would it get past Herr Mueller.
Also for those of you thinking, this is your chance. It will be vastly oversubscribed particularly if there is any sponsorship because that will attract people who've barely thought of being a pilot until they saw the ad in the paper. If you look at the numbers applying for the FO positions, you could probably quadruple the number of applications for a sponsored cadetship.
I remember going for the sponsored cadetships back in the day. They would literally fill big halls with people during the aptitude tests for several days and that was when it was mainly an Irish affair. This time they will probably hire the Albert Hall in London for the aptitude tests just for the British applicants alone.
Assuming it's sponsored of course, which I doubt.
I've seen some very rose tinted views of this potential cadet scheme in various fora. I have to say, being a cynical old goat, that it is probably misplaced. The best you can probably expect is help with a loan. There are several well established examples of a mix of funding and help with loans for cadetships. I simply cannot see Aer Lingus providing money up front themselves. Not given their current attempts at cutting everywhere in the airline. It might be that the optimists in the pilot training side are proposing various sponsored schemes but you have to wonder would it get past Herr Mueller.
Also for those of you thinking, this is your chance. It will be vastly oversubscribed particularly if there is any sponsorship because that will attract people who've barely thought of being a pilot until they saw the ad in the paper. If you look at the numbers applying for the FO positions, you could probably quadruple the number of applications for a sponsored cadetship.
I remember going for the sponsored cadetships back in the day. They would literally fill big halls with people during the aptitude tests for several days and that was when it was mainly an Irish affair. This time they will probably hire the Albert Hall in London for the aptitude tests just for the British applicants alone.
Assuming it's sponsored of course, which I doubt.
so im told anyway, dont shoot me if im wrong!
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surely the cadetship is like most now in the world. You pay your own training , go to a school lingus are linked with , they monitor you during your training if they like you at the end you go into MCC and type rating (at aer lingus's cost) that is the only payment that offer up I would imagine. Plus once out of training you dont do interviews.
Good Luck to all and the very lucky few to get in.
Good Luck to all and the very lucky few to get in.
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