United Airlines September Job Fair
#721
...and for all our comrades still at the regionals that rode out the zero-career-progress years of 2008-2013, where increasing the retirement age to 65 and a the W-shaped recession took 7 years away, and now they are being bypassed due to cherry-picking and the appearance of diversification based hiring (disclaimer: I’m not actually confirming that is what is happening though).
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...and for all our comrades still at the regionals that rode out the zero-career-progress years of 2008-2013, where increasing the retirement age to 65 and a the W-shaped recession took 7 years away, and now they are being bypassed due to cherry-picking and the appearance of diversification based hiring (disclaimer: I’m not actually confirming that is what is happening though).
Not far enough back, many of us had to start that point at the events of 2001.
So it's a tad more than 7 years.
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Diversity is neither the point nor the argument. I love diverse cities, companies, and consider myself to be diverse, as well. We are a diverse nation, after all –a nation of immigrants.
Here is the point in case some of you missed it:
Flight Time Requirements (but not for you)
• A minimum of 1,500 hours of total time
• A minimum of 1,000 hours of fixed wing turbine time
• A minimum of 100 hours of complex flight time within the last 12 months
These requirements by their very nature were designed to get those who really couldn’t get hired otherwise to slip through that little crack in the door that is open to the chosen few. Whether those are members of family or a special interest group that can be used in their new marketing maneuver is entirely up to United HR to make the call.
The bottom line is that their algorithm is discriminatory but not in the way of experience or education or anything else. It’s discriminatory because too often it overlooks perfectly eligible candidates in favor of less experienced ones by the stroke of a button; hence, a supposed algorithm is overrode once again by a fallible human-)
So next time you talk to a consulting firm or anyone purvey to The Game, and you share your experience, expect suggestions of: more Job Fairs, more leadership in your resume, more volunteer work, maybe a different company, more PIC Turbine, more flight time in the last year….etc. All the while, an individual with no PIC Turbine (0) and fewer than 3000 hours is sitting in initial after having attended zero job fairs.
No amount of validation, company pride or whatever else we can conjure up will justify these hiring practices to me. We all see how incredibly corrupt it really is and I only hope for the sake of future candidates that something changes.
Here is the point in case some of you missed it:
Flight Time Requirements (but not for you)
• A minimum of 1,500 hours of total time
• A minimum of 1,000 hours of fixed wing turbine time
• A minimum of 100 hours of complex flight time within the last 12 months
These requirements by their very nature were designed to get those who really couldn’t get hired otherwise to slip through that little crack in the door that is open to the chosen few. Whether those are members of family or a special interest group that can be used in their new marketing maneuver is entirely up to United HR to make the call.
The bottom line is that their algorithm is discriminatory but not in the way of experience or education or anything else. It’s discriminatory because too often it overlooks perfectly eligible candidates in favor of less experienced ones by the stroke of a button; hence, a supposed algorithm is overrode once again by a fallible human-)
So next time you talk to a consulting firm or anyone purvey to The Game, and you share your experience, expect suggestions of: more Job Fairs, more leadership in your resume, more volunteer work, maybe a different company, more PIC Turbine, more flight time in the last year….etc. All the while, an individual with no PIC Turbine (0) and fewer than 3000 hours is sitting in initial after having attended zero job fairs.
No amount of validation, company pride or whatever else we can conjure up will justify these hiring practices to me. We all see how incredibly corrupt it really is and I only hope for the sake of future candidates that something changes.
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They would indeed get criticism if they let a lesser qualified candidate cut in line in front of a more qualified candidate.
it's time to give "diversity" a break already. Diversity is code "acceptable forms of discrimination."
#729
I have seen at least 2 pilots with less than what I would consider "competitive flight time and experience" be hired at UAL. Those two pilots were low on experience but high on diversity. Other groups not in the diversity column were discriminated upon. You can pick the genre or fill in the blank. No one cares any more. It's all talk...blah blah blah.
It’s not reverse discrimination, it’s discrimination. Discriminating against a white person is the same as discriminating against a person of any other race.
Before I left for another job, I was a hiring manager for at&t. We were directed who to interview based on how ranked the applicants. The majority of an applicant’s ranking pertained to how they answered the demographic questions. I was once hiring an assistant store manager and had to go through ten applicants before I found one who had management and sales experience. So it was a waste of time filtering through applicants who were ranked high because of their demographics, but had no management or sales experience.
Before I left for another job, I was a hiring manager for at&t. We were directed who to interview based on how ranked the applicants. The majority of an applicant’s ranking pertained to how they answered the demographic questions. I was once hiring an assistant store manager and had to go through ten applicants before I found one who had management and sales experience. So it was a waste of time filtering through applicants who were ranked high because of their demographics, but had no management or sales experience.
Holy MAGA.
Show me one new hire class photo from the last 20 years with more than 10% minority hiring and I will be quiet. I am a 50 year old white hetero sexual male, 10K hours, 5 type ratings, zero failures, who had his resume walked in by an united A320 chief pilot who used to be charge of hiring, and had 10 LORs from UAL pilots. Never got an interview. Checked out the competition, guess what, it turns out they are still filling classes with white guys, just like they have been doing for the last 50 years.
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Holy MAGA.
Show me one new hire class photo from the last 20 years with more than 10% minority hiring and I will be quiet. I am a 50 year old white hetero sexual male, 10K hours, 5 type ratings, zero failures, who had his resume walked in by an united A320 chief pilot who used to be charge of hiring, and had 10 LORs from UAL pilots. Never got an interview. Checked out the competition, guess what, it turns out they are still filling classes with white guys, just like they have been doing for the last 50 years.
Show me one new hire class photo from the last 20 years with more than 10% minority hiring and I will be quiet. I am a 50 year old white hetero sexual male, 10K hours, 5 type ratings, zero failures, who had his resume walked in by an united A320 chief pilot who used to be charge of hiring, and had 10 LORs from UAL pilots. Never got an interview. Checked out the competition, guess what, it turns out they are still filling classes with white guys, just like they have been doing for the last 50 years.
There’s always going to be more white males. Nobody ever argued that. Doesn’t take away from the preferential hiring. And yeah. MAGA baby.
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