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avi8r - I am also wondering the same thing. I received the automated email of receipt of my application this morning and am curious as to when I can expect the call...
Any more details about the phone interview?
Any more details about the phone interview?
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i can confirm there is now a phone interview. knew of a person that took it last week, basically just asked some behavioural questions and what he had achieved in his career thus far....
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hi atminimums
I never got the call and I did the psych testing recently, I think they only call to discuss your motivation for applying for the course based on your flying experience??. I got an invitation to do the testing via email about 3 weeks after submitting my application, just confirming that there was no phone call at all for me... it may be different in your case
The psych test was not easy, especially the numeric stuff and I never had enough time to complete all parts of the exam ( I don't think you're meant to be able to ). As for the skills test, it wasn't too bad, the only problem I had with it was the slalom exercise where the computer doesn't register input of the joystick when going just off center position... this can contribute to some errors when trying to dodge the markers as they are very close together ( ie.. you have to move the joystick a great deal when it is centered before you actually see yourself move on the screen ).
Best of luck to you and all who applied.
I never got the call and I did the psych testing recently, I think they only call to discuss your motivation for applying for the course based on your flying experience??. I got an invitation to do the testing via email about 3 weeks after submitting my application, just confirming that there was no phone call at all for me... it may be different in your case
The psych test was not easy, especially the numeric stuff and I never had enough time to complete all parts of the exam ( I don't think you're meant to be able to ). As for the skills test, it wasn't too bad, the only problem I had with it was the slalom exercise where the computer doesn't register input of the joystick when going just off center position... this can contribute to some errors when trying to dodge the markers as they are very close together ( ie.. you have to move the joystick a great deal when it is centered before you actually see yourself move on the screen ).
Best of luck to you and all who applied.
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57 - thanks for the info, much appreciated.
I'll just keep checking the inbox and let you know what happens from here. If I get the phone interview, I'll post with some details afterwards.
Good luck all.
mins
EDIT: 57, I sent you a PM.
I'll just keep checking the inbox and let you know what happens from here. If I get the phone interview, I'll post with some details afterwards.
Good luck all.
mins
EDIT: 57, I sent you a PM.
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Just an update - I just received the call from QANTAS pilot recruitment (much quicker than expected) and have been invited down to Sydney for both the psych testing and the panel interview.
Confirm that there was NO phone interview.
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Confirm that there was NO phone interview.
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just wondering whether you were for cadets or DE? it's unusual that some people are doing phone interviews and some aren't...maybe they are just trialling new processes?
anywho, congrats on getting the call and all the best!!
just wondering whether you were for cadets or DE? it's unusual that some people are doing phone interviews and some aren't...maybe they are just trialling new processes?
anywho, congrats on getting the call and all the best!!
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I got an email reply a couple weeks ago and have booked to do the psych/skills testing in a few weeks. No mention of an interview though...
Are you guys applying for direct entry or cadetships?
Are you guys applying for direct entry or cadetships?
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chuck - I should have clarified that!
I applied as a cadet. Someone did call me from QF pilot recruitment, but I wouldn't really call it an interview. She asked me a couple of broad question regarding my application and then discussed what comes next (dates for assessment/inverviews etc.) No behavioural questions or anything like that, just a fairly casual phonecall really.
Maybe it just the de guys that are to expect phone interviews? Although I do think I read somewhere that cadets should expect them too.. Ill have another look at my documents
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I applied as a cadet. Someone did call me from QF pilot recruitment, but I wouldn't really call it an interview. She asked me a couple of broad question regarding my application and then discussed what comes next (dates for assessment/inverviews etc.) No behavioural questions or anything like that, just a fairly casual phonecall really.
Maybe it just the de guys that are to expect phone interviews? Although I do think I read somewhere that cadets should expect them too.. Ill have another look at my documents
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Received an email that recruiting was delayed and management had to make a decision on future course dates within 4 weeks. Can anyone shed some light as to the decision made (or yet to be made) by management regarding future pilot recruitment??? and is this email promising??
Bo777 just wondering when you got your email? I got mine on the 20th of last month stating pretty much exactly the same thing as yours did. So the 4 weeks is pretty much up now!
From the phone conversations I have had with them it could go either way. They did say that they were planning to grow at 8% PA but that has now been reduced to 0% growth for this year. Although other people are saying slots coming up for 90 SO's in January.
In the end if only they would communicate with us it would be much better rather than this crap of chinese whispers that it currently is. But why do i suspect that the red rat doesn't give a stuff about us?
From the phone conversations I have had with them it could go either way. They did say that they were planning to grow at 8% PA but that has now been reduced to 0% growth for this year. Although other people are saying slots coming up for 90 SO's in January.
In the end if only they would communicate with us it would be much better rather than this crap of chinese whispers that it currently is. But why do i suspect that the red rat doesn't give a stuff about us?
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[QUOTEn the end if only they would communicate with us it would be much better rather than this crap of chinese whispers that it currently is. But why do i suspect that the red rat doesn't give a stuff about us?[/QUOTE]
welcome to qantas s.o.p.
welcome to qantas s.o.p.
Sadly like you said it seems to be ops normal. Hopefully we will hear something sooner rather than later. Will be miffed if its a stop though seeing as they have done all reference checking and the like so my current employer knows about it now!
I've had my references checked twice now but different references both times. The first was before I received my letter of intent a few months ago and the second time was a different reference and only about 6 weeks ago, about 2 weeks before I got that email mentioned above.
I don't think reference checking points in any particular direction anyway because I spoke to a guy yesterday who had his references checked about 3 weeks before he received a 'no' letter.
I don't think reference checking points in any particular direction anyway because I spoke to a guy yesterday who had his references checked about 3 weeks before he received a 'no' letter.
Dragun thats extremely ****ty of the rat then especially if the references were from his current company. Imagine if you were then in a position of being denied upgrade/ shunned promotion because the company knows that you are looking at other jobs.
On the letter of intent it clearly states that reference checking is the last in the line of the process and as such should be an indicator of how far along you are. Especially seeing as I've bent over backwards to get the dam references and been told there was a possibility of a start date earlier than mentioned in the letter of intent. Indeed this was backed up when I sent an email recently asking about progress of my app.
I understand this is a difficult time for airlines but if it so difficult why keep interviewing? Surely the hold pool is big enough now to have people of courses for a decent period of time? Somehow I don't think the left hand knows what the right hand is doing!
On the letter of intent it clearly states that reference checking is the last in the line of the process and as such should be an indicator of how far along you are. Especially seeing as I've bent over backwards to get the dam references and been told there was a possibility of a start date earlier than mentioned in the letter of intent. Indeed this was backed up when I sent an email recently asking about progress of my app.
I understand this is a difficult time for airlines but if it so difficult why keep interviewing? Surely the hold pool is big enough now to have people of courses for a decent period of time? Somehow I don't think the left hand knows what the right hand is doing!
QF 747 Pilot 5 posts all on the same day about the same thing! You wouldn't be advertising for business now would you?
The Psych is not hard and all it costs is a couple of decent books and some number crunching. Why pay some guy to do that when you can do it yourself?
Mods any reason not remove a blatant advertisement?
The Psych is not hard and all it costs is a couple of decent books and some number crunching. Why pay some guy to do that when you can do it yourself?
Mods any reason not remove a blatant advertisement?
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QF Psych testing
What the fck is hard about the psych testing?
Just do the fckn quiz. If you need help to pass the IQ test, you gotta ask yourself the hard questions.
Passing the IQ test is no guarantee of passing the interview, the Sim, the medical or (as others above have said) the reference check.
Just do the fckn quiz. If you need help to pass the IQ test, you gotta ask yourself the hard questions.
Passing the IQ test is no guarantee of passing the interview, the Sim, the medical or (as others above have said) the reference check.