New interview process

[Romain]

Hi,

I heard that there is a new interview process at Transat with in person interview and some tests to do as well.

Does anyone have any information about that new process?

Thanks.

[kiaszceski]

Already tired of WJ?

[7up]

I am curious too… is aptitude test similar to Flair’s test?
Any technical questions for the interview?

[Yogi21]

They will do a phone interview initially. Then they will ask you to come to Montreal for an interview. They do not offer a flight which is ironic since all other airlines in Canada do. After the interview there is a compass test and psych test. They will also do a medical. Great things are happening at Transat and its certainly one of the best companies to work for. Just need to pay their pilots a proper wage. All companies are now saying that we are waiting for AC and then they will bump the pay. Thats a poor strategy. One of them should step up and show that they actually value their employees and pilots. Just sayin

[kiaszceski]

They will do a phone interview initially. Then they will ask you to come to Montreal for an interview. They do not offer a flight which is ironic since all other airlines in Canada do. After the interview there is a compass test and psych test. They will also do a medical. Great things are happening at Transat and its certainly one of the best companies to work for. Just need to pay their pilots a proper wage. All companies are now saying that we are waiting for AC and then they will bump the pay. Thats a poor strategy. One of them should step up and show that they actually value their employees and pilots. Just sayin

There are almost no Transat domestic flights. It makes sense for them not to offer any flights to candidates.
Have you seen AC booking a candidate on WJ or vice-versa?

Yes pay bumps as the should at least be in par with Porter while waiting for AC.

[Cavalier44]

They will do a phone interview initially. Then they will ask you to come to Montreal for an interview. They do not offer a flight which is ironic since all other airlines in Canada do. After the interview there is a compass test and psych test. They will also do a medical. Great things are happening at Transat and its certainly one of the best companies to work for. Just need to pay their pilots a proper wage. All companies are now saying that we are waiting for AC and then they will bump the pay. Thats a poor strategy. One of them should step up and show that they actually value their employees and pilots. Just sayin

There are almost no Transat domestic flights. It makes sense for them not to offer any flights to candidates.
Have you seen AC booking a candidate on WJ or vice-versa?

Yes pay bumps as the should at least be in par with Porter while waiting for AC.

This is dated information at this point but several years ago when I interviewed with Sunwing, they arranged for flights for me to and from YYZ in order to attend the interview. Lack of domestic flights or an unwillingness to book on their competitors didn't seem to be a factor for them - let's just say I didn't get there by way of Varadero!

In any case, I think an airline the size of Air Transat should have the means to get their prospective candidates to and from Montreal, or just conduct the interview over Zoom/Teams/etc. Requiring candidates to pay their own flights (if required) to and from Montreal for an interview seems absurd to me in today's hiring environment.

[thepoors]

They ask you to come to Montreal to interview and don't arrange travel?? What a joke. No way any self respecting person would agree to this without some compensation. Jfc even Flair will fly you to YYZ for their interview.

Doesn't Transat have a partnership with Porter now? Seems it should be pretty easy to arrange travel through them. Or is this some strategy to ward off the dirty Anglos?

What an embarrassment, just when you think they're on the right track by getting rid of the bond they find another way to be disgustingly cheap.

[cdnavater]

They ask you to come to Montreal to interview and don't arrange travel?? What a joke. No way any self respecting person would agree to this without some compensation. Jfc even Flair will fly you to YYZ for their interview.

Doesn't Transat have a partnership with Porter now? Seems it should be pretty easy to arrange travel through them. Or is this some strategy to ward off the dirty Anglos?

What an embarrassment, just when you think they're on the right track by getting rid of the bond they find another way to be disgustingly cheap.

I think it’s an old school way of determining if the potential new hire is serious or just interviewing for the experience.
Jazz was like this back when I interviewed, after the interview all other phases were on them.

[TFTMB heavy]

There's talks of the company doing interviews in YYZ. There's rooms for improvement in how they do things but overall it's heading in the right direction

We all expect they will have to be more creative to attract and retain pilots, especially of a certain experience. The cadet program will fill some seats but it will also create some problems. We need upgradable individuals but the company is very slow in reacting even though they acknowledge the situation.

As for anglophones at TSC, there's a bunch in both bases and they all seem pretty happy. This subject has been hit over the head so many times that I always wonder if it's a troll or an idiot bringing it up?

[thepoors]

There's talks of the company doing interviews in YYZ. There's rooms for improvement in how they do things but overall it's heading in the right direction

We all expect they will have to be more creative to attract and retain pilots, especially of a certain experience. The cadet program will fill some seats but it will also create some problems. We need upgradable individuals but the company is very slow in reacting even though they acknowledge the situation.

As for anglophones at TSC, there's a bunch in both bases and they all seem pretty happy. This subject has been hit over the head so many times that I always wonder if it's a troll or an idiot bringing it up?

All I hear from you is excuses for the management and their terrible policies. Who's the idiot?

Pretty sure you were also one of the biggest shills for the bond just a few short months ago - how it was such a "necessity." You flip flopped pretty quick on that huh?

It's no secret there's always been preferential hiring of French speakers at AT. The hiring ads even said bilingual until not that long ago.

[TFTMB heavy]

There's talks of the company doing interviews in YYZ. There's rooms for improvement in how they do things but overall it's heading in the right direction

We all expect they will have to be more creative to attract and retain pilots, especially of a certain experience. The cadet program will fill some seats but it will also create some problems. We need upgradable individuals but the company is very slow in reacting even though they acknowledge the situation.

As for anglophones at TSC, there's a bunch in both bases and they all seem pretty happy. This subject has been hit over the head so many times that I always wonder if it's a troll or an idiot bringing it up?

All I hear from you is excuses for the management and their terrible policies. Who's the idiot?

Pretty sure you were also one of the biggest shills for the bond just a few short months ago - how it was such a "necessity." You flip flopped pretty quick on that huh?

It's no secret there's always been preferential hiring of French speakers at AT. The hiring ads even said bilingual until not that long ago.

I do my best to only state facts about TSC and how it is to work there. It's useless trying to have a discussion with you, carry on with your delusion. You've been filed under the second category.

[thepoors]

There's talks of the company doing interviews in YYZ. There's rooms for improvement in how they do things but overall it's heading in the right direction

We all expect they will have to be more creative to attract and retain pilots, especially of a certain experience. The cadet program will fill some seats but it will also create some problems. We need upgradable individuals but the company is very slow in reacting even though they acknowledge the situation.

As for anglophones at TSC, there's a bunch in both bases and they all seem pretty happy. This subject has been hit over the head so many times that I always wonder if it's a troll or an idiot bringing it up?

All I hear from you is excuses for the management and their terrible policies. Who's the idiot?

Pretty sure you were also one of the biggest shills for the bond just a few short months ago - how it was such a "necessity." You flip flopped pretty quick on that huh?

It's no secret there's always been preferential hiring of French speakers at AT. The hiring ads even said bilingual until not that long ago.

I do my best to only state facts about TSC and how it is to work there. It's useless trying to have a discussion with you, carry on with your delusion. You've been filed under the second category.

If you can tell me what is untruthful about what I said I'd be happy to stand corrected, but you're just avoiding any discussion altogether. I guess management shills readily adopt management tactics.

[330heavy]

All I hear from you is excuses for the management and their terrible policies. Who's the idiot?

Pretty sure you were also one of the biggest shills for the bond just a few short months ago - how it was such a "necessity." You flip flopped pretty quick on that huh?

It's no secret there's always been preferential hiring of French speakers at AT. The hiring ads even said bilingual until not that long ago.

I do my best to only state facts about TSC and how it is to work there. It's useless trying to have a discussion with you, carry on with your delusion. You've been filed under the second category.

If you can tell me what is untruthful about what I said I'd be happy to stand corrected, but you're just avoiding any discussion altogether. I guess management shills readily adopt management tactics.

Looks like you were interested in joining TS, but now like to troll. Sorry you didn't get the interview invite, however, we tend to select the best candidates. Plenty of anglophones here, and we all get along and make this a great place, sorry you're bitter. Best to not apply anymore and move on, good luck in your future endeavors, whatever that may be.

[thepoors]

I do my best to only state facts about TSC and how it is to work there. It's useless trying to have a discussion with you, carry on with your delusion. You've been filed under the second category.

If you can tell me what is untruthful about what I said I'd be happy to stand corrected, but you're just avoiding any discussion altogether. I guess management shills readily adopt management tactics.

Looks like you were interested in joining TS, but now like to troll. Sorry you didn't get the interview invite, however, we tend to select the best candidates. Plenty of anglophones here, and we all get along and make this a great place, sorry you're bitter. Best to not apply anymore and move on, good luck in your future endeavors, whatever that may be.

Here we go... Was wondering when management shill #2 would pipe up. You guys are such a piece of work. Do you hold hands at the management meetings too?

Good luck finding the "best candidates," which by your definition I'm sure means how far up management's rear end they can stick their nose.

I actually turned down the offer, I value myself and this profession a little more than your poverty wawcon. But hey at least your FAs are demonstrating that they have some conviction and self respect, maybe you should pull your head out of where it's stuck and take notes.

[TFTMB heavy]

If you can tell me what is untruthful about what I said I'd be happy to stand corrected, but you're just avoiding any discussion altogether. I guess management shills readily adopt management tactics.

Looks like you were interested in joining TS, but now like to troll. Sorry you didn't get the interview invite, however, we tend to select the best candidates. Plenty of anglophones here, and we all get along and make this a great place, sorry you're bitter. Best to not apply anymore and move on, good luck in your future endeavors, whatever that may be.

Here we go... Was wondering when management shill #2 would pipe up. You guys are such a piece of work. Do you hold hands at the management meetings too?

Good luck finding the "best candidates," which by your definition I'm sure means how far up management's rear end they can stick their nose.

I actually turned down the offer, I value myself and this profession a little more than your poverty wawcon. But hey at least your FAs are demonstrating that they have some conviction and self respect, maybe you should pull your head out of where it's stuck and take notes.

This is why nobody wants to have a discussion with you. You've been calling everyone that has posted about TS a company shill and spewing nonsense. Thanks for turning down the offer, we all appreciate you for it. Now take your childlike rhetoric elsewhere, we don't need you on the line or in the forum.

[Mac08]

Can you blame him? You guys are literally the definition of a Shill.

How could anyone with an IQ more than room temperature even have the idea a training bond is acceptable?

[TFTMB heavy]

Can you blame him? You guys are literally the definition of a Shill.

How could anyone with an IQ more than room temperature even have the idea a training bond is acceptable?

So you switch accounts to keep posting the same BS? We never said it was acceptable, that the salaries were best in the country and that TS is #1. Most of us like working ant TS and share info with other people interested in joining. Some of us have insight on how and why certain things were either negotiated or imposed by the company and share it on this forum. If that is the definition of a shill then I’m guilty as charged. Keep up with the childish insults, really shows your IQ, and once again thank you for turning the offer down.

[330heavy]

Since you're new to the industry, you don't know why bonds exsisted in the first place. Personally, I'm a man of my word, and have signed and honored bonds in the past at past companies. Do your homework to avoid the bad companies, and staying at the good ones is easy. I don't care for bonds, but I see their value to keep the type rating collectors and the bad apples at bay, seems to work as evident on avcanada. Now we could have a EU system here in Canada, where in order to get a job you need a PPC. Paying out of pocket 30-50k for one makes a bond seem not so bad. End of the day no one really wants any of that, but again, see why they are and have been in place. The pressure is now on the HR and hiring commitee to select the best candidates.

And it's always funny, how those who didn't get an offer are the ones who constantly bitch about said company but say they "turned the job down", ask any of the Air Canada posters here if they believe that when some yokel spews that on the AC forum. Again, move on dude, "shill" your trolling else where.

[330heavy]

Additionally, the union is constantly working with the company to improve conditions for current pilots and for new pilots. They got rid of the bond, and are working on onther features for recruitment. Maybe it's flights to YUL for interview, maybe higher pay, right now it's setting up to hire not just directly into YYZ but into YUL as well for new hires. Things are moving in the right direction here

[DanWEC]

I'm not responding to the fidget-spinner level of decorum from other posters above, but rather for those interested, I'm a 100% anglo at Transat and there are many. Everything in the company is bilingual, and while yes, you'll be immersed in more French in some instances such as flying YUL-CDG, but it's a French-founded airline, going to France after all.

I have zero plans to move. In my opinion, the culture and pay-lifestyle balance simply can't be beat by any other airline in Canada. Good wine in a cafe in Marsaille doesn't care what language it's being spilled to- and to wit, I'm even trying to improve my franglish on the side just to make the day-to-day a little more interesting.

[thepoors]

At the end of the day you can believe whatever you want: that I'm a troll with multiple accounts, that I was pfo'd, that bonds are justified in this hiring environment, and that asking candidates to pay their own way to an interview is acceptable behaviour for a large airline. But you haven't really addressed anything I've said directly. You've only made pathetic attempts to discredit me as some "disgruntled pfo." Is it so hard to fathom that someone might not want to work at your precious company?

Bottom line is you two keep defending actions that have held back the standard of this profession in Canada for far too long. That's what bothers me. You're not "just sharing information." You're making excuses for a company that is taking advantage of you, your colleagues, and continuing a pattern of disrespect for pilots.

Seems like most at AC have woken up and are out for blood, and like I mentioned, your FAs are setting the example at your own company. Why don't you get on the same page?

[TFTMB heavy]

This place is like walking around at the dog park, you have to navigate the turds. Some people will never take an answer at face value and just twist it to whatever they want to hear.

TS upper management and management are almost all new. Things are moving in the right direction, slower than most of us would like but circumstances are what they are and it's out our control on the line. We bargain in the beginning of 2025, maybe sooner if AC gets a new deal before then. In the mean time the union has been chipping away and making some gains, like getting rid of the bond.

[acountant]

Since you're new to the industry, you don't know why bonds exsisted in the first place. Personally, I'm a man of my word, and have signed and honored bonds in the past at past companies. Do your homework to avoid the bad companies, and staying at the good ones is easy. I don't care for bonds, but I see their value to keep the type rating collectors and the bad apples at bay, seems to work as evident on avcanada. Now we could have a EU system here in Canada, where in order to get a job you need a PPC. Paying out of pocket 30-50k for one makes a bond seem not so bad. End of the day no one really wants any of that, but again, see why they are and have been in place. The pressure is now on the HR and hiring commitee to select the best candidates.

And it's always funny, how those who didn't get an offer are the ones who constantly bitch about said company but say they "turned the job down", ask any of the Air Canada posters here if they believe that when some yokel spews that on the AC forum. Again, move on dude, "shill" your trolling else where.

You see "value" in Training Bonds?

So you see value in indentured servitude and pressures to reduce pressure bargaining?

[330heavy]

Since you're new to the industry, you don't know why bonds exsisted in the first place. Personally, I'm a man of my word, and have signed and honored bonds in the past at past companies. Do your homework to avoid the bad companies, and staying at the good ones is easy. I don't care for bonds, but I see their value to keep the type rating collectors and the bad apples at bay, seems to work as evident on avcanada. Now we could have a EU system here in Canada, where in order to get a job you need a PPC. Paying out of pocket 30-50k for one makes a bond seem not so bad. End of the day no one really wants any of that, but again, see why they are and have been in place. The pressure is now on the HR and hiring commitee to select the best candidates.

And it's always funny, how those who didn't get an offer are the ones who constantly bitch about said company but say they "turned the job down", ask any of the Air Canada posters here if they believe that when some yokel spews that on the AC forum. Again, move on dude, "shill" your trolling else where.

You see "value" in Training Bonds?

So you see value in indentured servitude and pressures to reduce pressure bargaining?

If you're going to drink alone on a Saturday night, please stay away from forums. It's easy to see someone (with differnt handles) is infatuated with me, flattering but not necessary.