Originally Posted by BigWatchPilot

First…the bean counters need to let the flight department hire what they need. When management needs 300 pilots and the bean counters say you can only hire 175…then you are always playing catch up. You end up having to reinvent the wheel, changing the process because we are hiring to fill right seat wide-body international flying…rather than the process that has been working…natural progression. No hiring for 2 year and then catch up to try and save a few bucks cost more in the long run, and fewer options.

Meet-n-greets…yea they suck for everyone involved, but there are enough guys out there that want a job at FedEx that will do anything. Having the candidate come in I think could be EMLIMINATED. If the sponsor came in and had a meet-n-greet that could speed things up. Make it more “user friendly” for everyone. The ACP’s could look at…who is doing the recommendation and why they want this pilot, look over the resume and make sure they are qualified for an interview. This, I think would solve a few things…it would still require the sponsor to go out of their way to recommend someone, they would have to discuss how they know the applicant and why (did you fly a 4 ship together or did you do 12 legs in one day with them at the regional)…that should be enough. If you have a solid employee making an honest recommendation, face-to-face that would make things move smother. Let the applicants prove themselves in the INTERVIEW.

If JL and the ACP looked at ALL of the meet-n-greets they have had…how many did they put in the “no chance in hell” pile because of what the applicant said or did in the meet-n-greet as opposed to looking at his resume and the knucklehead making the recommendation? Does it really weed people out…or could this have been done with the sponsor and the resume alone?

If this is done you could make specific time to meet with your ACP or you might catch them during a hub turn, coffee break, or their to have a piece of retirement cake in AOC.

That is about it…but for the APC back-door issue, it is there. When you are on the crew bus and you stop buy the training building to pick up a guy in a suit fresh out of an interview and you ask…”how long did it take from your meet-n-greet to your interview” and they say…”what’s a meet-n-greet” my buddy has a cousin that was a WSO with an ACP and he called me last week and said “what are you doing??? Would you be interested in a job at FedEx???”