Originally Posted by
Aribusdude
Spoke with a Check Airman the other day who had been briefed by the new PhD type that is head of hiring. Apparantly he has been in charge at Delta and has done research on hiring.
The overall factor in this guy's formula is a determination as to how much will the new hire cost the company in his/her career. Cost is associated with training and lost time due to sick leave usage from your other activities. His main determination is are you teachable. Secondly, do you have outside activities/interests that would interfere with your work by having you call in sick.
Sadly we won't find out for several years how screwed up this is going to be. Leave it to the bean counters to be stupid.
You would think that if they were really looking at costs and productivity for a potential hire that current military reserve/guard pilots would be shut out. I'm all for the military guys having their time to risk their lives to go kill terrorists or help those that do, but many are not available to Fedex for company flying. A lot of guys finish training and take long term leave, negating the efforts the company put in for warm bodies in the cockpit.
They know this will happen yet still we have high numbers of current military getting hired. It doesn't seem like a civilian background guy calling in sick for 72 hours a year would be much more of a productivity loss, at least to the degree of Crystal Ball access this Phd claims to have.
(whisper)"Don't hire this guy, he'll call in sick"
"Are you sure"
"well, no, but
trust me"
"uhh, okay"
Who knows. Bring guys in, talk to them, if they are good dudes then hire them. Why complicate it with Fake Science?