WN hiring soon question?

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This from the senior manager of dispatch today:

"If you have friends interested in applying, suggest they start watching the website very closely starting tonight. Only going to be open for 48 hours once it hits."

Also, this will be a class of 20, to start in January, and this is the last "mega class" we are doing. After this we are going to go back to a more traditional hiring method with smaller classes aimed at replacing attrition and move-ups.

Good luck all!
 
PlaneFan82 said:
Well considering the job posting has not been posted, I would imagine these invites are for internal candidates.
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Precisely. Internals are being contacted already. I was told they were going to try and fill the class with as many internals as they could.
 
CPZ9900 said:
Precisely. Internals are being contacted already. I was told they were going to try and fill the class with as many internals as they could.
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While I can't say its a majority, there is definitely a decent contingent at Southwest in the dispatch department that view internal experience as part of the process of paying dues before coming into dispatch. That culture along with the huge number of qualified internals means there is a long waiting list of people that want to get into dispatch and no shortage of people in dispatch that want to help them get the job.

That being said under the current management, external experience has more weight than it maybe had in the past so I would expect a significant number hired in this class to be external. Like PJ mentioned after this January class, the hiring will not likely be in as large of numbers as the past several classes so people hired after this one will likely be on the bottom for a significant period of time. If seniority and schedule matters to you then you really want to get into this January class.
 
Flagship_dxer said:
While I can't say its a majority, there is definitely a decent contingent at Southwest in the dispatch department that view internal experience as part of the process of paying dues before coming into dispatch. That culture along with the huge number of qualified internals means there is a long waiting list of people that want to get into dispatch and no shortage of people in dispatch that want to help them get the job.

That being said under the current management, external experience has more weight than it maybe had in the past so I would expect a significant number hired in this class to be external. Like PJ mentioned after this January class, the hiring will not likely be in as large of numbers as the past several classes so people hired after this one will likely be on the bottom for a significant period of time. If seniority and schedule matters to you then you really want to get into this January class.
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I have to disagree with the mentality of working somewhere else in a company before moving to another deptarment. With dispatch it is apples to oranges. IMHO dues paying in dispatch comes dispatching at the regionals and non-legacy/WN/NK types, even more so when trying to make into the legacies/WN/NK. That is were your talent for dispatch should be pulled from.
 
Delta Echo said:
I have to disagree with the mentality of working somewhere else in a company before moving to another deptarment. With dispatch it is apples to oranges. IMHO dues paying in dispatch comes dispatching at the regionals and non-legacy/WN/NK types, even more so when trying to make into the legacies/WN/NK. That is were your talent for dispatch should be pulled from.
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This may be logical, but the reality remains that internals can get in without the experience an external may need. WN is a strange one in that experience isn't the be-all end-all of criteria by which you get the not. If 4 people are vying for one position, he who has the most experience does not necessarily win here. There are a lot of different things that management wants to see in its employees other then experience.
 
Slightly off topic, but I'm sitting here wondering if it's harder to win a job at SWA Dispatch than it is to win a free pizza from Domino's No-Hitter giveaway...
 
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