Emirates receives more than 300,000 CVs for crew vacancies

Emirates Airline remains the “dream employer” for many flight attendants around the world. With the objective of being part of a global company, living in Dubai, earning better than their local peers and getting to know more places, young people have invested massively in applying for vacancies that the company opens around the world.

In a recent disclosure, the company said it had received more than 300,000 resumes since September 2020, when it reopened recruitment for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The airline initially wanted to recruit up to 3,000 cabin crew, but now Emirates says that number is not enough.

With that, starting this month, Emirates will begin the search for up to 6,000 new flight attendants, as well as thousands of other workers, including pilots, customer service agents, engineers and ground workers.

A company spokesperson told The New York Times that the company is accelerating the recruitment drive to make these hires between April this year and March 2023.

Emirates is famous for being one of the toughest airlines in the world to get a job as a cabin crew and would-be candidates used to travel from country to country to attend recruitment fairs, where they hope to impress one of Emirates’ demanding hiring teams. airline.

In Brazil, the company has held two hiring rounds since the beginning of the year, as it did in other South American countries. Currently, the recruitment process is entirely digital and candidates need to complete an online application and successfully pass a virtual interview before being evaluated by a recruiter in person.

Emirates has rehired some workers who were laid off at the height of the pandemic, but many were not invited back or chose not to return to their former careers. It is estimated that up to 7,500 cabin crew members were laid off when Emirates suspended its flights in April 2020, because of Covid.