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Old 23rd Oct 2023, 15:39
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Is there any indication at all as to numbers available for each slot? Just trying to gauge the size of the cull before the final stage.
I'm imagining quite a few hundred, if we think two slots of anywhere probably between 10 and 50 each day of which there were roughly 10.
But then again I've got no clue, we'll have to see after the first day if someone reports back.
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Old 23rd Oct 2023, 15:42
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Originally Posted by 3seatmaniac
Is there any indication at all as to numbers available for each slot? Just trying to gauge the size of the cull before the final stage.
My guess was that it would be up near 1000, but in all honesty I haven’t a clue!
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1000, no way I don't think. Will be more like 400 to 500 all together including fte and skyborne
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Old 24th Oct 2023, 13:14
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Originally Posted by Aj2017
My guess was that it would be up near 1000, but in all honesty I haven’t a clue!
Surely doing face to face interviews with 1000 people would be some task? Not sure how you could fairly narrow it down. You could be right though!
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1000, no way I don't think. Will be more like 400 to 500 all together including fte and skyborne
We were told on the FTE day it was down to the final 800.
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1000, no way I don't think. Will be more like 400 to 500 all together including fte and skyborne
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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Aer Lingus invited 580 candidates for their group exercise and interview days in Dublin for the 20 spots they have. Originally getting 6000+ applications
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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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Anyone from the FTE assessments still waiting to hear anything? I attended the Friday assessment day myself and yet to here good/bad.
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Originally Posted by nirip27
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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using this as my third post so I can DM members haha. Will DM you once I’m able to. Thank you for setting it up.
Gonna try use this as my third aswell as they’re not getting through elsewhere haha.
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Old 24th Oct 2023, 17:08
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Originally Posted by Aj2017
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.
Were these online interviews?
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Originally Posted by marinecitro
Were these online interviews?
I’m not sure, it was just in an online press release about a month back that they said it.
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Originally Posted by Aj2017
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.
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.
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Originally Posted by Buccaneer29
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.
It was in this article here. May have meant the digital interview if that’s the case, I wasn’t at the FTE day so didn’t know the numbers they had specified.

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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Gonna try use this as my third aswell as they’re not getting through elsewhere haha.
I've had an email saying you DM'd me but it says I was unable to receive it due to my inbox being full... It's empty. I'm not sure if there's a fix for this?
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