A friend got an interview date but took a job with Korean Air instead. He didn't like it much and so I helped him get an interview with VA a few months later. He felt it was perfunctory, they didn't really look at him very hard. The mind set being you have to REALLY want to be at VA so turning them down is a killer. That said, the hiring regime has changed dramatically since so who knows, but that mind set is ingrained company wide.I applied in Sep of '07, got the assessment letter within 48 hours, the response within 3 days, and the interview call about 48 hours after that. Unfortunately, the interview date was only a few days later and I already had a schedule I couldn't break. They stopped interviewing after that last group, and I had to re-apply yesterday.
Any idea if anyone has ever been called back to the interview pile again?
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