Originally Posted by
SonicFlyer
"Have you ever been involved in an accident or incident or the subject of an investigation?"
The fear is that by answering "yes" to this question the computer scores you lower, or perhaps even disqualifies you automatically regardless of the details.
If a company has thousands of applications with 90% of them being incident/accident free, why waste time on those that have accidents or incidents?
Think about it from a HR perspective.
This is a valid concern. I don’t know about other companies, but Delta doesn’t use a computer to screen applications before a human looks at them. If an app is pulled, a human reads and scores it.
Certainly a wreck won’t help, nor checkride busts or traffic tickets. But at least at Delta you won’t be eliminated from consideration by a computer if you mark “yes” to any of the questions asking about negative aspects of your career (which most of us have in our past by the time we’re competitive for the majors).