Originally Posted by
Rickce7
I wrote letters of rec for two highly qualified retired military dudes that went to the Vets in Blue last March. . . neither of them heard a peep from JB afterwards. They are at FedEx and United now. . . One could argue that JB came out ahead because they would have ended up at FedEx/UAL eventually. But in this hiring environment, JB needs to be in the game if they want to have a chance to win. They are not in the game, in my opinion.
There's probably some metrics involved here from the hiring committee. If they've hired X number of people with these quals in the last couple years, and 95% of X have left to go somewhere else, they might be gun shy about wasting the interview and training slot on them.
Anecdotally, I know 2 highly qualified retired AF guys who went into Phase II, and accepted jobs at other majors before they passed Phase II. Both put pictures up on Facebook and changed their LinkedIn profiles when they got their job offer, and both got a "you are no longer in consideration for this position" emails from B6 within a couple weeks.
Until we get a competitive contract, the reality is we'll probably hemorrhage year 1 guys who are competitive elsewhere, and this may just be the companies way of mitigating that loss.