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Best Practices in Airline Recruiting is Focus of Workshop by Embry-Riddle and AirTran

Daytona Beach, Fla., Aug. 4, 2005 -- “Airline Pilot Screening and Recruiting” is the title and topic of a special workshop on Aug. 29 and 30 in Atlanta. Sponsored by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and AirTran, the event is open and free to all airline recruiters who are responsible for hiring new pilots.

The workshop will take place at the Alteon Training Center (5155 Clipper Drive, College Park, Ga.), located across the street from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and the Sheraton Gateway Airport, where participants are encouraged to stay. The Sheraton Gateway will provide ground transportation to and from the airport and training center.

“The mission of Embry-Riddle is to continually work with airline hiring professionals like AirTran to develop screening best practices based on their input,” said Martin Schaaf, executive director of the university’s Commercial Airline Pilot Training (CAPT) Program and one of the workshop speakers. “Putting these practices to use in the selection and training process will ensure our hiring partners receive the right candidates and the best qualified.”

The workshop’s agenda:

Monday, August 29
1 p.m. – Announcements by Lou Nemeth, consultant to Embry-Riddle
1:10 – Keynote address by Klaus Goersch, vice president, flight operations, AirTran
1:45 – Welcome by John O’Brien, Embry-Riddle trustee, retired from ALPA
2 – “The CAPT Program: An Update,” Martin Schaaf, executive director, CAPT Program, Embry-Riddle
2:15 – Break
2:30 – “Focus Air: A Case Study,” Carlos Porges, psychologist and recruiting consultant to CAPT Program. Other panelists: Robert Stafford, CAPT recruitment manager, and Gary Morrison, CAPT program director.
3:30 – “Keeping Screening Legal, and Using the NEO-PI-R Test and Other Personality Assessments in Testing Pilots,” Nancy Cullen, psychologist and pilot-screening expert. Other panelist: Carlos Porges.
6:30 – Cocktails
7:30 – Dinner and speaker: “The Case for Getting Back to Human Factors Basics,” Bill Taggart, human factors researcher, University of Texas-Austin

Tuesday, August 30
8:15 a.m. – Keynote address by George Ebbs, president, Embry-Riddle
8:30 – “Recruiting and Human Factors Training Programs at AirTran,” Stephanie Grantham, technical operations recruiter, AirTran
9 – “Human Factors Programs at Alteon,” Paul Hinton, vice president, Alteon
9:30 – “Summary of Screening Processes Used by 200 Airlines,” Kit Darby, president, AIR Inc.
10 – Participant workshop: “How to Modify Your Screening Techniques for Specific Cultural Outcomes,” Bill Taggart and Lou Nemeth. Other panelists: Airline recruiters and human factors specialists
11:30 – “Next Steps/Wrap-Up,” Bill Taggart and Lou Nemeth
Noon – Workshop concludes

To register for the workshop, contact Lou Nemeth at LNemeth@carolina.rr.com or (704) 752-8088. For reservations at the Sheraton Gateway Airport, call (770) 997-1100.