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Originally Posted by magneto
I would assume that if applicants really want the job they would show up prepared. Glad to hear they are not like Mesa, (and I'm a former Mesa guy!)
I guess my question is more along the lines are they getting mostly applicants that are just around the mins or are there a bunch coming from other regionals with higher times and maybe PIC time.
Compass is going through a major shift when it comes the quality of its pilots. Remember this fact throughout this post.
Before the hiring wave started (due to flows, the new AA birds, the shortage etc...) the hiring minimums were ridiculous - you're talking 5k-7k hours with previous 121 experience, masters degree etc... This caused the overall pilot group to be very experienced from the get go. These are the legacy Compass pilots, most of them having had been part of the flow, some of them stayed behind and are still here but very few are left.
Then you have the Compass pilots who rushed in when news of AA and the flows made their rounds promising the quick upgrade and were hired late 2013 to late 2014 - and made the lateral move from ExpressJet, Great Lakes etc....these were peepz with a few years of experience, who had been on reserve forever but had the 100-500 min multi time Compass required at the time. These guys went through the 3 stage interview process with the cog test, the psych and the delta 50 question quiz.
As of summer of 2015, when those pools dried up, Compass now lowered the mins to 25 hours of multi and removed the Delta style interview and just kept a 50 question ATP style test along with the panel interview. Most new hires today are CFIs.
You can see where the trend is going....
Point is.....Compass today is hiring pilots they would NEVER have hired a few years ago when they could still be extremely picky and selective.
That's just the way the cookie crumbles, nobody can afford to be picky anymore, and that will affect the overall quality of the pilot group a few years from now when the Top 2 tiers leave for greener pastures...
Hope that puts thing into perspective as it relates to your question.