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Originally Posted by surreal1221  Silly question, what 'was' the cognitive screening test? |
It was a computer-based test that tested hand-eye coordination and multi-tasking skills with time pressure. It made you do things like determine quickly if two letter/number sequences were the same, repeat back letter sequences (link that 80's kid's toy, I forget what it was called), and all these other bizarre and kind of stressful things. If you failed--which a fair number did--you had to pay a private psychologist $500-1000 to run the test again and show that you didn't have neurological difficulties.
The test wouldn't be too bad if it was all you were there to do, but they made you do it on the second day after you'd already had a full and stressful day of interviewing and been poked and prodded in every way imaginable during the medical.
I highly doubt this will help Eagle. What they need to do is recognize that the way they assign aircraft is completely incompatible with the way their bases are distributed. If most of your aircraft--CRJ, Saab, ATR--only have two bases in one general region, but the airline as a whole is spread out throughout the whole continent, it doesn't make sense not to give new hires any idea of what they can expect for an aircraft/base. People are genuinely afraid to go there because they're afraid they'll get stuck in the ATR or Saab in some base they hate with no chance to go anywhere for a year and a half. If they simply gave people an idea of where they'd be going, they wouldn't have a million no-shows.