Lately our hiring team has seen an increased amount of discrepancies in the interview process with regard to training failures. Let's start by saying that minor hiccups in training are not deal breakers when it comes to getting a job with Uber Airline. Some checkrides have such a high failure rate that getting a bust is almost a rite of passage...can you say CFI? Training failures happen, but what we are looking for, from you, is to hear about how you handled it and what you learned from the failure.
Recently, when asked about why some training failures were not included on their applications, several candidates told us that they paid for consulting services, and named specific companies and said that they were advised by the consultants that it was not necessary to include their specific failures. Other candidates stated that their instructors, at the airline where the failure occurred, told them it was not a big deal and would not be considered a failure. We want to be sure to clear up this bad gouge. Our application specifically asks you to list ANY training failures. In fact, here are the actual questions:
"Have you ever been the subject of an evaluation board or been removed from flight status, downgraded, or failed ANY portion of flight training either civilian or military?”
“Have you every failed ANY check rides (military or civilian) including phase checks, proficiency checks, FAA check rides, or line checks?”
That means ANY/ALL failures. If you had to get extra sim time, had a UPT failure, had to retake an oral, failed a line check, etc. it will likely show up on your PRIA report and if you didn't record it on your application it could appear that you deliberately omitted information from your application...which is not something that you nor we want to have come up during the hiring process. We want you to list all training failures. It's as simple as that...no grey area...just list them all.