Originally Posted by
satchip
I was one of the late June interviews that got pushed to the Aug DB. My refs were called soon after the interview also. In fact many people whom I know at the company (former squadron mates) were contacted even though I didn't provide their names. The hiring guy was flying with someone from my base and asked and it networked out from there. They called a letter writer, a Pira form contact, and an online rec giver also.
From what I have been told, the interview and the LOI are scored separately and don't come together until the DB. Is this true?
Aug 14th.... oh well i have been waiting for over a month already. What's a couple of weeks more. Its worth it.
I've heard that as well. You can get all your references called based on how the interview went and still tube the whole thing based on a poor showing on the LOI. I talked with a senior FO who was on the team that helped develop the system years back and he said that the LOI typically weeds out about 10% of the applicants.