Are you one of Ireland's next Future Pilots? Aer Lingus have just the job for you!

Credit: Aer Lingus Careers (online)

Aer Lingus have launched a unique traineeship programme for aspiring pilots. Recruits will be put through their paces for an intensive 14 month training programme and will receive mentoring and leadership development skills throughout. Recruitment is now open and the programme will begin in November 2018. It combines classroom based learning alongside practical flight training and regular mentoring from a dedicated Aer Lingus Liaison Pilot.

Once you qualify, you will receive a Multi Pilot's Commercial Licence along with a job piloting on one of Aer Lingus's Airbus Aircrafts. You will also start your training journey where you will learn to fly aircrafts in Aer Lingus's modern fleet across Europe.

If you or somebody you know is interested, the entry criteria is as follows -

Essential criteria for application

• 18 years of age on or before January 1, 2018
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Eligible to live and work permanently in the EU
• Up-to-date unrestricted worldwide passport
• Able to pass an airport security vetting procedure, including a five-year background check
• Two verifiable references
• Able to obtain an EASA / IAA issued Class 1 Medical, including successfully passing a colour blindness test - Please refer to www.iaa.ie prior to application to ensure you can meet all medical requirements in line with eyesight/colour blindness limitations
• If applicants are not Irish citizens, they will require a current police disclosure certificate from their home country if successful
• If applicants have resided outside the Republic of Ireland for six months or more, they will also require a current police disclosure certificate from that country/countries

Key competencies and skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Flexibility and willingness to work at various hours throughout the day or night
• Strong communicator who acts with integrity
• Well-developed decision making skills
• Technical awareness
• Strong team player with ability to build and maintain positive working relationships and demonstrate leadership qualities
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills 

Minimum educational criteria:

• Leaving Certificate pass grade (6 subjects) or equivalent
• O3 grades in English and Mathematics at ordinary level or H6 at higher level in the Leaving Certificate
• Minimum of 2 higher level subjects with a minimum of H5 grades in the Leaving Certificate (equivalent grades detailed on http://careers.aerlingus.com )
• Where the minimum Leaving Certificate or equivalent grades have not been met, you must have one of the following qualifications:
  • A minimum of a Level 7 third level (ordinary degree) in any discipline
  • Completed an aviation-related apprenticeship

Apply now on the Aer Lingus website here. Don't worry... you'll fly it! :D




Original source: Cormac O Shea (26.04.2018), Dublin Live: http://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/jobs/aer-lingus-are-recruiting-pilots-and-you-dont-need-to-have-any-experience-or-qualifications/ar-AAwmdKw?ocid=ientp