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I’d like it to be lower to improve my chances but I remember reading that Tui interviewed 2000 for half the number of jobs, and probably fewer applicants. I’m sure we will find out soon enough though.
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Yeah but TUI is a huge company that probably has many recruitment people to interview contestants. Skyborne is an independent flight school with probably only a handful of people interviewing. From sources, I know at the video interview stage they cut it down to 2000, 3000ish. Whoever passed the video assessment I would then imagine was cut down to about a 1000 for the assessments. From then it was likely to cut to 500 at most. Also FTE only had like 3 or 4 days of assessments and group exercise. That in itself suggests numbers are much lower now in the few hundred likely. My guess is that they will have 20 to 30 per day at the skyborne interviews. Thats a heck of a lot of in person interviews for 1000 people. Therefore more likely that it's now a few hundred
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Yeah but TUI is a huge company that probably has many recruitment people to interview contestants. Skyborne is an independent flight school with probably only a handful of people interviewing. From sources, I know at the video interview stage they cut it down to 2000, 3000ish. Whoever passed the video assessment I would then imagine was cut down to about a 1000 for the assessments. From then it was likely to cut to 500 at most. Also FTE only had like 3 or 4 days of assessments and group exercise. That in itself suggests numbers are much lower now in the few hundred likely. My guess is that they will have 20 to 30 per day at the skyborne interviews. Thats a heck of a lot of in person interviews for 1000 people. Therefore more likely that it's now a few hundred
They told us on the FTE day it's down to 800 for the assessment stage across the board. 70 slots instead of the 60 they mentioned at the start.
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For what it is worth, during the BA/FTEJerez presentation at Waterside, they informed us that at that stage (pre last round of cuts for both) there were 800 applicants remaining from 23,000 or 26,000 (depending on who you asked) for 70 spaces across the two schools.
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This is well out on all fronts. Tui had 30 places available and invited around 100 for in person group exercises, role play assessment and interview. Not sure where you read these numbers, but completely wide of the mark.
For what it is worth, during the BA/FTEJerez presentation at Waterside, they informed us that at that stage (pre last round of cuts for both) there were 800 applicants remaining from 23,000 or 26,000 (depending on who you asked) for 70 spaces across the two schools.
For what it is worth, during the BA/FTEJerez presentation at Waterside, they informed us that at that stage (pre last round of cuts for both) there were 800 applicants remaining from 23,000 or 26,000 (depending on who you asked) for 70 spaces across the two schools.
https://www.pilotcareernews.com/tui-...of-new-cadets/
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The 2000 interviewed from tui was likely done as a video interview assessment. E.g. They were being asked questions and then would've have to record their answers to it. If there were 800 in total at the assessment stage for both FTe and skyborne combined they are going to be well down now to 200 to 300 I reckon.
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Hello, you have the same question as me. Did you get any reply for it? If not, I'll just take the stuff which they mentioned in the short 'what to expect' guide.