Just posted...good luck to all who apply.
https://corporatecareers-southwest....edirect=false&jan1offset=-360&jun1offset=-300
https://corporatecareers-southwest....edirect=false&jan1offset=-360&jun1offset=-300
Southwest Assistant Dispatcher opening.
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SoftSkills
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Thanks for posting this!
No kidding. It's understandable excitement though.
BobDispatch
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I am interested in the duties that this position works. Some of those items at my airline are covered by our ATC dispatchers or Chief Dispatchers.
Does anyone know about how this job works? Do you get into the next dispatch class?
Does anyone know about how this job works? Do you get into the next dispatch class?
69beers
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From the conversations I had late yesterday and today, there's a chance of some windfall openings in SDF for both union and management after this round of hiring if their ejection seats function properly. Who knows, maybe...maybe not...but there's certainly a "rats off a burning ship" attitude here lately.
Juliette Z - I'll only recommend the good ones to you, Your Dudeness!
Juliette Z - I'll only recommend the good ones to you, Your Dudeness!
That's Affirm
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You never know but the bottom half of the class should expect to be assistants for at least a year.
WannaBeDX
Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I
I want to say that 69beers was referring to UPS and dispatchers up there applying to Southwest.
Ok, thanks.
69beers
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Yes he was, but shouldn't you have said "I wanna say"....
It's not really an attitude here, we just live in a cultural Bizarro World when compared to WN.
kilo
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By the time this new class is ready to hit the floor for OJT, it will have been about 1 year and 4 months for the bottom 4 people from the June 2016 class. That was a class of 20, though, so it took longer to cycle new hires into open dispatch slots. This next class is probably going to be for about 8-12 people. External hire seniority is organized by age, and they all come after the internal hires who are organized by existing company seniority. So if you are a younger candidate from outside the company, you won't go wrong expecting about a year as an assistant, making 74% of the dispatch pay scale while training on live desks and operating the assistant desk, where you answer calls and "offer" to get food for people.
PlaneFan82
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This is what consider to be a "Team Building Exercise". You prove your worth to the team by getting food---regardless of Seniority. At one of my old shops, this was also SOP during a Desk Check.
