Originally Posted by FedEx_or_Bust
1. Do you have to currently be employed at Fed Ex when you apply for the pilot position? (Or is it as long as you have worked for them for 1 year in the past?)
2. Ok, so you are gauranteed an interview if you are an internal hire and meet the hiring qualifications. However, after interviewing are they still likely to hire you if you don't have other pilot sponsors? Do they take you seriously? Or do you still have to have some connections to push your interview into the hiring pool?
Nothing is written in stone,
but,.......right now even having a sponsor seems less help than your sponsor having a speed dialer
As of this year, your sponser, not only having to walk you in and (of course) fill out some computer forms, must also call in to arrange your "meet and greet". well that may seem simple enough, but no it isn't. They limit when you can call to schedule these appointments (it was 17 Apr for the last one) and, like a radio call show for free tickets to a concert, everybody (sponsors that is) were calling at the same time, 0800 Memphis local, Monday AM. I tried, on behalf of the guy I'm sponsoring and plain couldn't get through. Rang for over a hour, got lots of recorded messages about other calls and other "can't take your call now, please call back..." messages but no human answered. Wrote my ACP told him the phone where out of service and would he make the appointment, haven't even received a comment back there.
I feel bad for the guy's and gal's trying to get in here. If it wasn't so important and serious to those who are trying to get a job, it would be a comical farce. I just don't think it funny.
