Originally Posted by
robthree
USMCFLYR,
If SWA has 10 openings and 1000 apps from fully qualified pilots, what selection method would be best to use?
Presumably you could eliminate half the candidates for typos, or poor grammar, or penmanship on their application.
You could chop off another two hundred or so because they wore brown shoes instead of black to the interview.
Drop another two hundred simply because they do not live in a SWA city. Kinda unfair, but that still leaves 100 candidates for ten jobs.
Its not at all unimaginable that SWA would eliminate qualified candidates for reasons irrelevant to the position, merely to arrive at a manageable number of candidates.
Absolutely - and SWA would find those perfectly good reasons to cut the pool down. Those would be valid reasons to SWA. Not all of those people are going to get a job - so you are saying that ANYONE not hired was for an invalild reason? If SWA has that many applicants for that many jobs then only so many are hired - whether those not hired think the reasons are valid or not. I'm sure they don't think so.
I've asaked before whether applicants are told WHY they don't get the job in any interview. I've been told by HR folks that part of the reason is liability. If a cnadidate doesn't knwo why they weren't hired - how do they know if there was a valid reason or not?
I'm wondering if someone who makes a statement like the one above has ever sat on a selection board of ANY kind. What would be thier answer if those not selected would tell him/her that there was no valid reason for not selecting said person. I'd bet that selection board member would have a reason. Same applies here IMO.
USMCFLYR