digits_ wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 1:14 pm
I'm curious though, if you had a choice, would you post pay? Would you expect more applicants if you did?
I don't know tbh, I'm sort of on the fence. I would like to say I would, but then in practice I can see why people wouldn't. Applying for jobs the lack of posted pay hasn't ever deterred me, I just ask when I apply. Could there be more applicants? The resumes to a posted job ad come in a deluge. I thnk I had a hundred and twenty within the first 24 hours of the one ad being posted. The second time posted within a month netted 60 more different applicants.
Do you think people who apply at your company already know the pay via unoffical talks with other pilots?
Possibly, but if they know ahead of time the pay scale, it isn't deterring them from applying and going through the process, and none have revealed that they knew what it was.
There are enough and more posts on AvCanada complaining about pay that will disagree with your point here.
But those posts are dwarfed by the amount of applicants who are contacted back and that is the sticking point. Its seasonal work which means a busy season, and an off season which I personally like (I hate working in the winter, and my winter work if any is usually south of the border) but lots of people don't. In fact there have been a lot of guys who accept the offer, but then I think they talk over what it entails to the wife and the idea gets nixed. The pay, for what its worth, is average from what I know our competition pays.
I am sure you... ...will attract better applicants if the wage and working conditions were better. Just the $0.02 a lot of posters are complaining about on this thread...
I doubt it. I think you underestimate how many unemployed pilots there are out there. Its really difficult to sort out who is good and who isn't, from a resume or even an interview. Only the airplane really reveals. Lots of people are on paper qualified, and some over qualified. But then I have been involved with hiring people long enough that I've seen some padded resumes and faked logbooks. I mean having a more appealing job ad doesn't keep the bad ones from applying.
I'm not sure what's more depressing: That everyone has a price, or how low the price always is.