Jet2 Pilot recruiter Will Strickland has posted on Linked in today for type rated Airbus pilots. Thats an opportunity to message him directly in the comments of that post if you so wish. Good luck!

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Family member has had a similar experience but I am not willing to post anything more about it on here but it has left a sour taste in the mouth, there has be a financial cost and it has changed my SLF perception of Jet2, perhaps naively I expected better from this airline but after 45 years of interest in the aviation industry I am still learning and another valuable lesson in that always fear the worst and expect little.

Pete

On several accounts I've heard over the years, it can be taken as an accurate litmus test for the corporate attitude towards flight crew at j2.

From someone on the inside, I can tell you that actually that’s not true. The problem with comms in recruitment is purely down to available resources.

For the record, there is less demand for external recruitment next year as the 321 will be mainly filled by transfer of crew from retired Boeings.

If you failed to make the cut this time, don’t be disheartened. It’s the HR process. There’s nothing to stop you reapplying again in the future. Maybe there’s something that you
can do on a personal level to score higher in the interview and sit nearer the top of the pool? Jet2 is a meritocracy and it will benefit a candidate greatly if they’ve show they’ve made a huge effort for the interview. Hours and experience don’t guarantee you a job.

Nonsense. The way these people have been treated is dispicable and no other airline would behave like that.

It would take 5 minutes to give prospective employees an update on their application status. The fact that Jet2 can’t be bothered shows the contempt they have towards their staff.

Give the nauseating brown nosing a rest.

😂😂😂 yeah well done.

Anyway, 5 minutes per applicant thousands of applicants. I'm sure you're able to do some simple sums...

Good one!
I won't repeat here the response some of my colleagues got from TUI when they applied.

Its a rubbish response from Jet2, but don't kid yourself that any other airline is better.

Which other airline tells people they’re successful, sticks them in a hold pool without contact for months and then sends them an auto-generated email saying actually they’ve been unsuccessful and then doesn’t reply to any of their emails?

Right, so Jet2 told “thousands of applicants” they’ve been successful and put them in a hold pool, did they? In which case, even worse as they never had any need for “thousands of applicants”. Those who didn’t make it past the application stage don’t need 5 minutes of somebody’s time. Those like the posters above deserve that as a minimum.

The fact that you have nothing to say to those who were messed around but crawl out of the woodwork to reply to me speaks volumes. Not that I’m surprised.

I wasn't too impressed with the recruitment process. To be told you've met the benchmark and are placed into a hold pool to then be thrown out of the hold pool without any feedback how do folk know what to improve on for next time? Just to end up passing again thinking you through but to be placed near the bottom of the list you'll never know. With the financial cost of preparing and attending the assessments. I can't afford to reapply anytime soon and would rather go elsewhere

Firstly there is no airline to my knowledge gives feedback on pilot assessment. Secondly the recruitment side has historically been under resourced as they attempt to catch up with the expansion rate. Any perceived injustice, while unfortunate would be down to workload rather than an uncaring approach to pilot careers. I worked for Jet2 as a captain, trainer and recruiter. It appears to be unfashionable to say it but internally it is a great airline and I was very happy there. Compared to the politics and genuine contempt from management experienced at the light blue holiday airline, Jet 2 was a breath of fresh air. My advice would be to apply again when the timing might be more optimum. Perseverance is viewed positively.

Brown-nosing who? I don’t need to do any such thing. I’ve reached where I want to be in aviation and I’ve done so without any sweet talk.

As others have alluded to: Very few companies give personal feedback. If you were unfortunately kicked out of the pool then maybe it was your attitude that came across poorly on the day?

Well in my career I can safely say BA, Virgin, Monarch, Thomas Cook, TUI/Britaina, British Midland, and Easy Jet. Just off the top of my head. Have all pulled similar stunts.

It’s bloody awful, but it’s the aviation industry, and no one asked you to apply.

None of the posters above are asking for feedback for being flat out rejected. People are asking for feedback on why their time was wasted by being accepted in the first place, and then rejected later on without explanation.

Again, the fact that none of the usual brown-nosers had anything to say to those posters a month ago when they brought it up, but decided to have a good old chomp on my post says everything you need to know. You all know it was bad practice from Jet2.

But then again this is the airline that dumped 102 pilots on the scrap heap during Covid and then barely said a word to the remaining pilots for about a year. Communication has never been the airline’s strong point.

I’m not getting into childish arguments with some disgruntled, unsuccessful candidate.

The hold pool gets cleared as demand dictates. Passing the interview on the benchmark doesn’t mean you get the job. I don’t believe that practice exists in ANY airline. Nor do I know of an airline giving dedicated feedback.

You obviously have a grudge to bear. Hopefully you’ll take it to a different airline.

And then offered them ALL jobs once the industry picked up again. Usually it's slimy politicians who manipulate the truth to suit their agenda, I reckon you're in the wrong job.

It offered all of those jobs again after Covid didn’t it?

It is interesting to note Vokes that while you are hurling out insults on pprune because Jet2 have not recognized your obviously brilliant flying skill you appear to be alarmingly lacking in self awareness. As I have stated, I flew, trained and recruited for Jet2. I expect you turned up for the interview suited and booted, prepared, courteous and willing to do your best. It is not so long ago that I could have been your interviewer and I very much doubt that you would have called me a brown noser to my face or whoever interviewed you. A word of caution: airline recruiters read pprune and identification is not that difficult. I am not trying to put a sinister spin on this but my advice is to take the current disappointment on the chin, be professional, stop wingeing and move on.

I think it’s reasonable to assume once you are in a hold pool , a job will follow although I count on nothing till contracts signed .

To be turfed out for no obvious reason must be gutting esp if you are a newbie

This is sarcasm, surely? I don’t know of anyone who makes plans on the assumption that having met a benchmark of a recruitment process, they’re getting a contract. Seniority doesn’t accrue from the date of interview in any airline. The top candidates get picked, that’s just life.

These days there seems to be a sense of entitlement in society. It’s even more noticeable since Covid. I guess everyone lives in an internet bubble rather than the real world.

Not at all . What’s the damn point of putting all the effort into the recruitment process , and spending money involved for some vague notion a job may follow ?

It’s not a game . If you meet the “ benchmark “ and they have positions a job should follow - if you don’t meet the benchmark and aren’t what they are looking for you go elsewhere .

And no I’m not entitled or a millennial thanks .