FAA to open up Air Traffic Controller hiring

[AirDX]

This is potentially very important to relatively young CAP members,
and to anyone else you know interested in an aviation career.  The FAA
will be recruiting air traffic controllers in February (see below).
No prior ATC experience is required.  Minimum hiring age is 21,
maximum age is 34.  Anyone interested should monitor the FAA web site
and usajobs.gov.

AN OPPORTUNITY LIKE THIS IS EXTREMELY RARE - it has been YEARS since
the FAA opened up "off the street" ATC hiring..  An ATC career is
rewarding and lucrative.  NO other government jobs hire people off the
street and provide all the training they need to move into positions
among the highest paid in the federal government.  I spent 25 years an
an air traffic controller, retiring in 2008.  Please get this out to
anyone you know who might benefit.  See below for more info.



An overview of the immediate changes being made to the ATC hiring
process is presented below.

Revisions to ATC Hiring Process

· A nationwide competitive FG-01 vacancy announcement open to all U.S.
Citizens will be issued in February 2014. Any individual desiring
consideration for employment (including CTI graduates) MUST apply.
Existing inventories of past applicants will not be used.

· All applicants will be evaluated against the same set of
qualification standards. Specifically, applicants must have at least 3
years of progressively responsible work experience, a 4 year degree,
or a combination of the two.

· The existing testing process has been updated. The revised testing
process is comprised of a biographical questionnaire (completed as
part of the application process) and the cognitive portion of the
AT-SAT. The cognitive portion of the AT-SAT will be administered only
to those who meet the qualification standards and pass the
biographical questionnaire. Applicants for the February 2014
announcement will be required to take and pass the new assessments in
order to be referred on for a selection decision.

· Since a single vacancy announcement will be used for all applicant
sources, a single nationwide referral list will be generated
containing all candidates who meet the qualification standards and
pass the assessments. Location preference will no longer be used as a
determining factor for referral or selection.

Centralized selection panels will no longer be convened to make
selections from the referral list. Selections will now be fully
automated, grouping candidates by assessment scores and veteran's
preference.

These improvements to the ATC hiring process will significantly
strengthen the long term sustainability of our program and offer our
candidates a fair and viable opportunity to demonstrate their
capabilities and potential for the ATC position.