Will BA meet its recruitment target?
Joined: Jun 2000
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From: Here, but soon will be there
All F/O's from ALL companies should be prepared to say STOP.
But that's another story...
Joined: Apr 1999
Posts: 497
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From: Right Here.
Kishna, What happens if the captain doesnt reply or is dead? My point is while it may not be you company SOP you certainly should be prepared to take action.
BPM, mate I am very well. Creature of leisure the last 2 months, which needs explaining. Beers soon.
MAX
BPM, mate I am very well. Creature of leisure the last 2 months, which needs explaining. Beers soon.
MAX
aka Capt PPRuNe
Joined: May 1995
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From: UK
Many many moons ago, when I was still wet behind the ears, and just a year or so's experience on turboprops and didn't really understand what working for BA was really like, I applied to them. I think it was when they started DEP recruitment after a rather long hiatus, '94 or '95?!?!
Took me several attempts to fill in the application form as my hand writing is atrocious (should have been a doctor) and my feeble attempt to remove the staples and feed it through my dot matrix printer (ah, those were the days) in order to make my responses legible, disastrously resulted in a chewed up, mangled mass of pre-pulped, heavy bond confetti.
After begging and scrounging around I managed to procure another application form and I and tortuously hand wrote all the little essays in the manner an ancient scribe would have done were he producing an important manuscript.
There was I, keen but slightly more mature as I'd started late in my career as a professional pilot believing that my chances would not be helped because my hours were not commensurate with my age, anxiously waiting for the reply. Obviously I was disappointed when I read in the reply that I had not passed the first hurdle and would not be invited for an interview. There was a glimmer of hope as they told me I could re-apply after 12 months had elapsed but I respectfully declined their offer.
Several years later, after I had progressed from turboprops onto shiny Boeing twins and through contacts developed through my association with PPRuNe, I learnt the real reason I never made it to a BA interview. Apparently, the company BA employed to vet the initial applications used some kind of 'matrix' to scan the application form. Based on the initial information such as age, height, weight, hair colour, post code etc. etc., they thus 'filtered' out those who were deemed unworthy of consideration by BA. If you passed this initial vetting you were then considered for invitation to interview.
After pressing my 'contact' for more details it eventually transpired that I wasn't invited for interview, not because of the illegibility of my hand writing, not even the spurious but lovingly crafted essays about my exploits where I shone through with tough decisions that reflected leadership and true management potential. No, none of those things even made it for consideration. The reason I was not invited for an interview was........... my height to weight ratio fell outside the 'matrix'!
So, if you've applied to BA but not even made it to interview consider the fact that it may be because you aren't the right shape!
If you did make it to the interview and then got no further, there is a possibility that you may be built to the right proportions but still be the wrong 'shape'! 
In other words, BA don't like fat blokes! Mind you, I now fly the B744 for Britains Flag Carrier and I'm told that on this fleet we are also known as potential 'sumo wrestlers'!
It must be all those sandwiches, Upper Class meals and laying around on the beach. 
Never fear, there is life beyond BA.
Took me several attempts to fill in the application form as my hand writing is atrocious (should have been a doctor) and my feeble attempt to remove the staples and feed it through my dot matrix printer (ah, those were the days) in order to make my responses legible, disastrously resulted in a chewed up, mangled mass of pre-pulped, heavy bond confetti.
After begging and scrounging around I managed to procure another application form and I and tortuously hand wrote all the little essays in the manner an ancient scribe would have done were he producing an important manuscript.There was I, keen but slightly more mature as I'd started late in my career as a professional pilot believing that my chances would not be helped because my hours were not commensurate with my age, anxiously waiting for the reply. Obviously I was disappointed when I read in the reply that I had not passed the first hurdle and would not be invited for an interview. There was a glimmer of hope as they told me I could re-apply after 12 months had elapsed but I respectfully declined their offer.
Several years later, after I had progressed from turboprops onto shiny Boeing twins and through contacts developed through my association with PPRuNe, I learnt the real reason I never made it to a BA interview. Apparently, the company BA employed to vet the initial applications used some kind of 'matrix' to scan the application form. Based on the initial information such as age, height, weight, hair colour, post code etc. etc., they thus 'filtered' out those who were deemed unworthy of consideration by BA. If you passed this initial vetting you were then considered for invitation to interview.
After pressing my 'contact' for more details it eventually transpired that I wasn't invited for interview, not because of the illegibility of my hand writing, not even the spurious but lovingly crafted essays about my exploits where I shone through with tough decisions that reflected leadership and true management potential. No, none of those things even made it for consideration. The reason I was not invited for an interview was........... my height to weight ratio fell outside the 'matrix'!
So, if you've applied to BA but not even made it to interview consider the fact that it may be because you aren't the right shape!
If you did make it to the interview and then got no further, there is a possibility that you may be built to the right proportions but still be the wrong 'shape'! In other words, BA don't like fat blokes! Mind you, I now fly the B744 for Britains Flag Carrier and I'm told that on this fleet we are also known as potential 'sumo wrestlers'!
It must be all those sandwiches, Upper Class meals and laying around on the beach. Never fear, there is life beyond BA.
after meal times!
