Heres Whats Happening At Nj Hiring...

[Just Peachy]

I know its tough out there so here is what just came up on our zippy new union board....

This is from one of our other pilots, so Im quoting him but not word for word, take it for what its worth.

He said he sat with 4 new hires going through indoc at the Thursday night dinner last week while in company recurrent. They had all interviewed in March or April. One guy got an interview in as little as 5 weeks. Someone else had waited 5 months. No idea what makes the difference.

At the management briefings that they had not interviewed anyone in about 6 weeks but were picking it up again next week.

Two more weeks of interviews would fill all classes for this year. Interviewing would continue in Sept for '09 class dates. Supposed to hire 450 this year. (We've only hired 175 in over half the year)

Thats all I know ( and it aint much)

 

[starcheckdriver]

There was a set of interviews 4 weeks ago, during the last week in June so what management said about it being 6 weeks ago is not entirely accurate.

 

[captain dad]

2006 - 383 hired
2007 - 229 hired
2008 - we have hired 190 through July 7, this year.

Flight Safety is the weak link from what I have heard. Quicker the training facility opens the better for everyone.

 

[Fly2AK]

Whats the possibility of them using CAE to help supplement and speed things up?

 

[flyingid]

well since they own flight safety i dont see that happening.

 

[skiandsurf]

well since they own flight safety i dont see that happening.

NJs does not own Flight Safety. But Berkshire Hathaway owns both of them.

 

[Diesel]

used to do the one ton at CAE.

 

[gutshotdraw]

Speaking of the new training center, and since we're all part of the same happy Berkshire Hathaway family, is the new training campus going to be a FlightSafety branded facility with FSI management and just an exclusively NJA clientele? Or will it be NJ from top-to-bottom including management, instructors, etc? That wasn't exactly clear from the info we've received and the subject came up at recurrent last week.

 

[theskyking]

I though it was being advertised as the world's largest Flight Safety. From that, I am guessing that it will be staffed and run by FS for NJ. But since that's my guess, I would bet on anything else.

 

[skiandsurf]

Speaking of the new training center, and since we're all part of the same happy Berkshire Hathaway family, is the new training campus going to be a FlightSafety branded facility with FSI management and just an exclusively NJA clientele? Or will it be NJ from top-to-bottom including management, instructors, etc? That wasn't exactly clear from the info we've received and the subject came up at recurrent last week.

I talked to one of the CMH FSI instructors, and he says that it will be staffed by FSI instructors. Didnt talk about other clientele using the facility.

 

[gutshotdraw]

From what I understood, only NJ crews would use the facility and any overflow requirements the company had could be covered at other facilities. The only question mark was branding on the front door and who the instructors and staff would actually be working for. Then again, the money all goes into the same pocket anyway. And that would be Uncle Warren's rather large, deep pockets

 

[Masterplan]

training

Does it help your interview process or hiring prospect if you are already typed in one of there planes? I am current in the XL and would only need a recurrent right?

 

[learflyer]

It helped me alot being typed on two of the aircraft they operate. I'm also a sim/ground instructor on the two. I believe it helped get the interview, although I was unsuccessful the first try. I'm mailing my new app tomorrow.

 

[VGerect]

Does it help your interview process or hiring prospect if you are already typed in one of there planes? I am current in the XL and would only need a recurrent right?

FWIW I really don't think it (type rating) helps that much. NJA is looking for customer service experts who can also fly an airplane. You will also go through the full FSI initial course even if you're typed.

 

[FLYLOW22]

It helped me alot being typed on two of the aircraft they operate. I'm also a sim/ground instructor on the two. I believe it helped get the interview, although I was unsuccessful the first try. I'm mailing my new app tomorrow.

Almost 100% chance of you NOT being placed into any fleet that you are current and qualified on if hired.

NJA training doesn't want you to bring with you another operators way of doing things.

 

[twiddle]

Almost 100% chance of you NOT being placed into any fleet that you are current and qualified on if hired.

NJA training doesn't want you to bring with you another operators way of doing things.

Not to disagree with you being a poolie myself, but during the interview, they specifically said that if you have a type in something they try to put you in the same equipment. This came up when we asked how the decide who goes in what airplane. This was during lunch with Derinda and all the Big Wigs that stopped to say hi.

 

[learflyer]

Almost 100% chance of you NOT being placed into any fleet that you are current and qualified on if hired.

NJA training doesn't want you to bring with you another operators way of doing things.

Thanks. I was at another Frac when I flew these airplanes, so hopefully they'll see (next time) that it was somewhat standardized.

 

[o2bflyn]

Almost 100% chance of you NOT being placed into any fleet that you are current and qualified on if hired.

NJA training doesn't want you to bring with you another operators way of doing things.

Interesting. I would have thought that with a large portion of people doing training at FSI facilities and NJA doing the same....there would not be a whole lot of differences.

 

[Tatin12]

Confused

2006 - 383 hired
2007 - 229 hired
2008 - we have hired 190 through July 7, this year.

Flight Safety is the weak link from what I have heard. Quicker the training facility opens the better for everyone.

Why did NetJets ever think they could hire 450 this year if Flight Safety doesn't have the training slots to support that? Is it really that difficult to forecast? Seems completely predictable.

 

[Diesel]

Why did NetJets ever think they could hire 450 this year if Flight Safety doesn't have the training slots to support that? Is it really that difficult to forecast? Seems completely predictable.

you obviously don't work for netjets.