I wish this had come weeks ago to put me out of my misery. Came this morning...


Dear ----

Thank you for applying for the position of FIRST OFFICERS NON TYPERATED B737.

Unfortunately we will not be taking your application further on this occasion. The general standard of applications has been extremely high and we have shortlisted candidates whose skill sets are more closely matched to the role requirements.

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications that we receive, we are unable to provide further feedback at this stage of the process.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest and wish you every success in your future career.

With kind regards,
Norwegian Recruiting Team

Norwegian recruiting cadets!!!
 

What is your profile wangus ?

got declined as well .. in the email was also stated the following :

Due to a high number of applications we have focused on applicants with +1000 hours of total flying experience and +150 hours the last 12 months.

so.... yeah....

good luck to everyone !

dito :cool:

I feel that between the two requirements (1000TT and 150hrs during last year) the second one is the "axe" for cutting people.

Someone can illuminate if during the application they were asking these 150 hrs or just "new requirement"???

I think there was a question in the application form "Do you have 150+ hours last 12 months?".

Thank you Kazata.......you right...i was not sure.

How many hours have you guys done in the last 12 months?

i would be interested to know of those 6000 applicants, what percentage had 1000 hours and >150hrs in the last year.

Over a thousand hours of experience, 150h in the last year AND still willing to self sponsor a T/R for a contract position. Yeah.

Had the same email,

770 TT, 162 hours in the last 12 months (FI). Can't help thinking if they wanted 30 pilots with 1000+ hours they should have just said so. Would still have had plenty of applicants.

If they have taken only 30 odd applicants, it's a bit heartless to build any hopes up in less experienced pilots thinking they might have a chance of gaining employment when in reality none existed.

I appreciate airlines like to test the market with all encompassing trawls such as this.

However, they would have known from the responses contained within the questionnaires the hours and experience of the applicants without putting so many through the online tests when there was no hope of subsequent employment.

This very Thread and the responses within it show how keen, hopeful, young pilots hang on every word - I did myself years ago.

Now to find it was all in vain leaves something of a bad taste in the mouth - in my opinion.

Not good PR, again in my opinion, but the nature of the modern corporate beast.

Email received today with a negative answer

I think they are looking to bring back Scandi from Ryan, Susi and maybe get someome from Widerøye.
As well, check interest and market with fresh pilots for their future recruitment

You guys know what to do if my email went out of order meanwhile - can I change it somewhere so I know what reply I got? I have 1000 TT and 150h in the last year.

I HOPE It! They know that PILOT SHORTAGE DOES NOT EXIST

Response received yesterday -
Thank you for applying for the position of FIRST OFFICERS NON TYPERATED B737.

Unfortunately we will not be taking your application further on this occasion. The general standard of applications has been extremely high and we have shortlisted candidates whose skill sets are more closely matched to the role requirements.

Due to a high number of applications we have focused on applicants with +1000 hours of total flying experience and +150 hours the last 12 months

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest and wish you every success in your future career.

With kind regards,
Norwegian Recruiting Team

Agree with the other posts, why ask for low hour non-rated pilots just to send responses like this out, on the plus side going through the online process was good practice.

Recruitment Process
 

Dear all,

I red through this forum and I was aware of the negative messages. Does anybody know when you receive information concern this recruitment process? I have still no response from Norwegian... Al my other classmates has received negative messages from the recruitment team. I am looking forward to hearing from anyone.

Same for me Martijn, although I expect it's in the post - just with a second class stamp!

Did also the test in aug. Never got a reply so far. Well i guess we all would get a pfo some day.

Did the test in mid-August and received the dreaded e-mail on Monday ("we have focused on candidates with +1.000 hours of total flying experience").