SWA Re-dos

[enigma]

Would a bad HR reference at this airline keep SWA from interviewing me again, based solely on that reference on the first interview?

The bad ref would keep them from hiring you the first time. It apparently won't keep them from calling you in for a second try. I was shot down by an ill timed call from my then aviation department manager (part 91 "chief pilot") after I'd been called for the drug test. Which leads me to my only grief with SWA, a story for later. Anyway, I was called for a later interview, which I didn't pass. I've never understood how I could pass the first time, yet fail the second, .....who knows? But for your question, I believe that they will give you a fair chance the second time around, doing otherwise would be economically stupid for them. Why bring you in and waste their own time if they have no intention of hiring you?

regards and good luck,
enigma

PS, later is now. I feel like typing. Rhetorical question coming up. Why would SWA reject a person whom they had taken all of the way through their own selection process, after receiving a call from someone who they've never seen face to face? In my case, I meet the requirements to interview, I did so. I passed the three interviews, passed the "past employers" background checks, passed the "recommendation" phase, passed the PRIA phase, passed the "blacklisted by someone I didn't know, list of names on the crewroom wall" phase, apparently passed the DB, and passed the piss test. ....

Only to get the rejection after my boss called to demand that they tell him (not on my behalf) if they were hiring me away from his department because he "needed to be able to plan for my departure with more than two weeks notice".

In short, they sat across the table from me, asked their questions that are intended to get to know me, got to know me, liked me, decided to hire me (based upon my buds on the inside), then rejected me based on a phone call from someone they knew almost NOTHING about. The maddening thing to me was that he, the bad guy in this story, had absolutely ZERO respect for SWA. He used to write letters to HOU controllers complaining about SWA's taxi style etc. If they had taken one tenth the time to know who he was as they did me, they would most likely have immediately dismissed anything he had to say.

Deep breath, Deep breath. OK, rant over, I feel better now. thanks for listening.

 

[Wild Weasel]

for what it is worth...yes they do apparently call guys back. A buddy in my ANG failed a SWA interview last June. He just a call for another interview later this month. I don't know anymore details.

 

[johnny taliban]

A buddy in my ANG failed a SWA interview last June. He just a call for another interview later this month.

Im sure your buddy is a great guy and deserves another shot but it really makes me wonder just how fair SWA's selection process is. There are plenty of qualified pilots waiting for their FIRST interview and a guy that didnt make the cut first time around is getting a second shot while the rest of stand on the sideline.

oh well, who said life was fair?

Johnny