Bit of a ridiculous statement that Corsair.

What company in the world doesn't try and cherry pick applicants to best suit their own company?

I was thinking the exact same thing. However it's always easier to delude yourself with fantasies of nepotism because it's much harder to look in the mirror and realise that there are maybe more qualified chaps about.

Righteo.

There will be more applicants than jobs.
The majority of applicants will be suitable.
A few will screw up the sim/interview.
A few will know someone in EI
Quite a few will have gone to schools previously used by EI
Some will have type ratings with experience
Some will have type ratings with no experience

End result: lots of suitable pilots for EI to choose from, whom EI can then mold into EI line pilots.

There is no magic formula as to what makes the ideal EI pilot. They wont necessarily pick the guy/gal who has the most experience on type nor the guy who scored highest in exams.Aer Lingus is made up of an eclectic mix of cadets, ex-military, other airlines and self sponsored. If I can offer one piece of advice. With such a large field to pick from, you will have to make the interviewers remember you. You will have to stand out from the other 10 they interviewed that day.

The best of luck to all - I still enjoy working there!

Pat

Sorry to dispel another myth, but I was recently told by a good friend at EI that an insider nod to HR was now frowned upon.

VFE.

can't you simply call the number back from the 'missed calls' section of the phone. even if your phone has problems displaying the number it should still call it no?

Coffin, Background is 650 total, 400 on the bus at the moment.

what is the feo time
 

hi will i need to know what is the feo time please

I think FE time is Flight Examiner or Flight Engineer time, at least that's what I assumed when I filled out my application, since I didn't have either I left it blank.

"You will have to make the interviewers remember you from the other 10 they interview that day". If fortunate enough to be interviewed I will be attending in fancy dress:ok:

Hi all

Did anybody who sent their application by mail receive a confirmation that it had reached them? Or did anybody who sent it by mail get an interview?

No & no

I wonder if it's worth the risk emailing them to see if they received it? :confused:

By mail and not a dicky bird.

Its probably worth trying to call or email or re-apply via email. Mine couldn't have got lost, I posted it from Dublin airport...or could it! An Post..."We're not there yet, but we're getting there"!!

As I already posted here I mailed mine too, received nothing. I then emailed them asking them if they received it in their post, still nothing! So today I emailed the application, still yet to receive a reply!
I dunno...all a waste of time I feel.

Posted mine pretty much the day the advert when live, and heard nothing so far. Personally I'm NOT waiting by the letterbox, phone or inbox - if I get an acknowledgement (let alone an interview), I'll be quite surprised.

HW

1300+ applying for 40 jobs. G'luck folks!

VFE.

same 1300 applying for BA, BA cityflier, qatar, emirates, turkish airlines etc etc....i personally applied to all those.
we will eventually all get a job...right?
D

there's nothing like mindless optimism :E

Acknowledgement
 

Folks &

Just to let you know.... I emailed them using the application email address the other day asking if they had received my application (sent by email weeks ago) and they replied later that day, confirming they had received it, but hadn't screened it yet due to the volume of applicants. Said they would get back to me if my screening was successful, but please be patient!! :ugh::{

Good luck to all

Burger81

AL have taken a similar approach to BA in their selection. Run a quick screen on those that tick the boxes and get them in quick.

A huge volume of applications has been received which has no doubt swamped the HR department. There is no dedicated HR department for Flight Operations so these people are taken from their day to day work in order to deal with the pilot recruitment. I heard through the grapevine that many have already gone through the selection process with offers issued. One thing I can say for certainty having had friends try to get hired in the past. AL are not good at communication. If you aren't selected for interview then quite possibly you will never hear from them.

My point precisely....

HW

do EI do sim cx on a320, and is this with sim tech?

burger81

Thank you for that. Good luck mate :ok:

I emailed the form back 2 or 3 days after the advert went live. They replied within 24 hrs to say they had it. Fair play, and great piece of mind for me.

I'm still waiting for further info, I have Jet and TP time but I'm not yet a bus driver, so not holding my breath just yet. Being a Dubliner, I'm still hopeful to pull off EI at some point in my career. If I do, I know I'll be there for the long haul as I've never wanted to be anywhere else.

To those of you already on the bus, forget EI and apply to Emirates! :ok:

Good luck everybody!

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It will 5 years from licence issue TwoTone-7, but that will be your CPL, not your ATPL because obviously you haven't had the full ATPL issued yet. (maybe annotate the application?)

Good luck :ok:

CC

Many Thanks for that, all sorted now. :)

From EI website;
Am I right in thinking that screening has only really started in earnest now that the door has been shut to new applications?

Or is that just wishful thinking??? :)

The closing date was on 10 December, so I think that they wrote it to inform laggards ;)
Has anyone been invited to interview since that date? Any calls today ?

For info, just received the following email response to my postal application:

"Aer Lingus Recruitment
Direct Entry First Officer
Dublin, Cork, Belfast, London-Gatwick

Many thanks for your email and application form for the position of First Officer with Aer Lingus.
The closing date for receipt of applications was 12.00 on Friday 10th December 2010 and we would like to confirm receipt of your application.
We are in the process of screening all applications and if you meet our criteria we may be back in contact with you.
Due to the high volume of applications, this may take some time so we would like to thank you in advance for your patience.
We are requesting that you don’t respond to this e-mail due to the large amount of correspondence received to date".

HW

I also sent my application by post and received the same email this evening.......good luck to all who applied :)

recall!
 

I also received the same email message, but I had applied by email.... shortly after receiving the first email, i got a "recall" message saying that the sender wished to recall the original email :uhoh:

anyone else have the same happen to them??

Burger81
 

Same second email also for me. I've applied via standard mail.

I sent my application by mail november 13th, received following acknowledgement on the 15th: "To whom it may concern,

Thank you for applying for a position within Aer Lingus.

Should your application meet our required criteria we will be in contact.

Best Regards,
Recruitment Aer Lingus "

Today as the colleagues above also received both the message and recall..... We'll see what happens.

Yep, also got the recall mail message and by some spooky coincidence rec'd it not long after posting here to say I'd at last had an acknowledgement to the original postal application. Hmmm :O

HW

Me too.Think everybody got the same both mails, aknowledgement and recall...

good luck all!

I never got the recall. Sent mine by email.

Second email from HR rec'd this morning, pretty much identical to the first one rec'd yesterday which was recalled. Just waiting for the second recall message then.... :ugh:

HW

Me too Happy Wanderer, although I didn't receive mine till around 3pm. Aer Lingus sort this out!!!!

Received a second one today also, but nothing about "recall".