Cabin Crew Application Form - Aer Lingus

Northern Ireland Cabin Crew Application Form(For office use only) Applicant No. _____________Notes• This form should be completed by the applicant in block capitals or transcript ensuring that it is clearly legible.• Do not attach a CV or any other documentation in support of your application. Only information requested in this formwill be considered.• All information given will be kept strictly confidential• Please read the declarations on page 7 before signing this form• Aer Lingus is an Equal Opportunities Employer.• All applications will be considered strictly in accordance with the merit principle• The closing date for receipt of applications is 17.00 on Friday 04 th March 2011Personal DetailsFirst Name ________________________ Known as __________________ Surname ________________________(If different)Address (for correspondence)____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Permanent Address (if different from above)____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Daytime Phone No. ______________________________(Please indicate whether home/work)Alternative Phone No (mobile). ____________________________E-mail address (if any) ___________________________Please note: You will be required to provide official verification of the following:Are you eligible to work in Northern Ireland? Yes/No _______ Are you 18 years of age or over? Yes/No___________Do you have a current unrestricted passport entitling you to travel freely throughout the world? Yes/No___________Are you 1.58m (5‟2”) or over in height with weight in proportion to your height? Yes/No_______________________Are you a confident swimmer? Yes/No______________________________________________________________Have you ever been convicted of a criminal offence which is not spent under the terms of the Rehabilitation ofOffenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978? Yes/No ________________If yes, please give brief details including the date and nature of the offence______________________________________________________________________________________________(Please note: If your application is successful you will be required to undergo a security vetting procedure. This is alegal requirement to enable you to gain access to restricted “airside” zones of the airports)1

Further EducationGive details of all further education, including University, technical college or other further/higher education courses.If currently studying, please give details of current studies.Please note: We will ask you to provide official verification of your results.College AttendedQualifications Obtained and ResultsIntended further study (specify) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Other QualificationsDo you hold any other qualifications that you believe are or might be relevant to this application (e.g. first aid, lifesaving, etc)? If yes, please provide details__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Employment RecordStarting with your current or most recent employment, give details of work experience in sequence. Include vacationwork, part time work and work placement.Employer’s name,address and telephonenumberDatesTo/FromSalaryJob Title and briefdescription of positionReason for leaving3

Language SkillsLanguageLevel of Proficiency(Basic/conversational/fluent)Specify exams and/or practicalexperienceCabin Crew are required to work irregular work patterns and unsociable hours, including weekends andbank holidays. They are also required to spend time away from base (overnights) and time on call.Are you prepared to accept this? Yes/No_____________________________________________________________Cabin Crew are required to wear a uniform and adhere to strict standards regarding grooming, appearanceand conduct while in uniformAre you prepared to accept this? Yes/No_________________________________________Part of the Aer Lingus uniform standard is a requirement that no tattoos or body piercings are visible in anAer Lingus uniform. Tattoos may not be covered with adhesive bandages or by other methods, to render them notvisible)Are you prepared to accept this? Yes/No _____________How many days have you been absent from work/studies due to illness in total in the past two years?_____________________________________________________________________________________________If your application is successful you will be obliged to complete a medical questionnaire (and if necessary, undergo amedical examination) prior to commencing employment. This will involve the disclosure of sensitive personal dataabout your health.Are you prepared to accept this? Yes/No_____________________________________________________________Have you ever travelled by air? Yes/No: ____If yes, summarise briefly countries visited._____________________________________________________________________________________________4

Key CompetenciesIn this section you will see some of the key competencies we require from our Cabin Crew Members.For each of the competencies:1. Please list the key qualities you have that enable you to carry out these competencies.2. Give a strong example to demonstrate how you believe you meet these competencies.Communication Skills________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Interpersonal Skills________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Team Working Skills________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5

Customer Service Skills________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Sales Skills________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ReferencesPlease provide the names and addresses of two referees, preferably employers or people with knowledgeof you in a work or study situation. We will not contact your current employer without seeking yourpermission first. Please ensure that you provide full and up-to-date contact details. Difficulties inobtaining references will affect your ability to commence employment with Aer Lingus if you are otherwisesuccessful in the recruitment process.NameBusiness Address ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NameBusiness Address _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Telephone No. __________________________Telephone No. ____________________________Email address (if any) ___________________Email address (if any) ______________________Position _______________________________Position __________________________________6

Data Protection StatementThe information that you provide on this form and that obtained from other relevant sources will be usedto process your application for employment. The personal information that you give us will also be used ina confidential manner to help us monitor our recruitment process.If you succeed in your application and take up employment with us, the information will be used in theadministration of your employment with us. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain thisapplication form and any other personal data concerning you for approximately twelve months and then itwill be destroyed.Aer Lingus will check and verify some of the information contained in this form with third parties or withother information held by us.By signing the application form you agree to the processing of personal data and sensitive personal data(in particular regarding your health and criminal convictions), in accordance with our registration with theData Protection Commissioner.DeclarationsI declare that the information given by me in this form is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true andaccurate in every detail. I understand that if, found to have suppressed any material facts or to havegiven false answers I will be liable to disqualification from the application process or, if appointed, todismissal.I am aware that any letters, representations, recommendations or references unsolicited by Aer Lingus, orintervention of any kind on my behalf, at any stage prior to an offer of employment being made will beregarded as canvassing and will disqualify me from the application process.Signature: _____________________________________Date: ___________________________PLEASE COMPLETE THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES MONITORING FORM ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE(S).7

Equal Opportunities MonitoringCabin Crew RecruitmentRef. No. _____________For Monitoring Officer‟s UseonlyIN CONFIDENCEEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES MONITORING QUESTIONNAIRE(Return with your application form)GUIDANCE NOTES:Aer Lingus is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We aim to provide equality of opportunity to all personsregardless of their community background, religious belief, political opinion, gender, marital or civilpartnership status, race, colour, ethnicity or nationality, sexual orientation, age, or whether they aredisabled or not.We do not discriminate against our job applicants or employees on any of the grounds listed above. Weaim to select the best person for the job and all recruitment decisions will be made objectively.In this questionnaire we will ask you to provide us with some personal information about yourself. We aredoing this for two reasons. Firstly, we are doing this to demonstrate our commitment to promotingequality of opportunity in employment. The information that you provide us will assist us to measure theeffectiveness of our equal opportunity policies and to develop affirmative or positive action policies.Secondly, we also monitor the community background and gender of our job applicants and employees inorder to comply with our duties under the Fair Employment & Treatment (NI) Order 1998.We encourage you to answer the questions below. Your identity will be kept anonymous and youranswers will be treated with the strictest confidence. We assure you that your answers will not be used byus to make any unlawful or unjustified decisions affecting you, whether in a recruitment exercise or duringthe course of any employment with us. To protect your privacy, you should not write your name on thisquestionnaire. Once it is returned to us, this form will be given a unique identification number and onlyour Monitoring Officer will be able to match this to your name. In particular, we wish to assure you thatthe information that you provide on this confidential monitoring questionnaire is not and will not be madeavailable to the shortlisting or selection/interview panel.The only exception to this is that it may be necessary for us to take account of information provided bydisabled persons about their disabilities. We assure disabled persons that we will not do this withoutlawful justification, in particular to assist us to comply with our duties under the Disability DiscriminationAct 1995, particularly any duty that we may owe to a disabled person to make reasonable adjustments forhim or her.8

COMMUNITY BACKGROUND:Regardless of whether they actually practice a particular religion, most people in Northern Ireland are perceived to bemembers of either the Protestant or Roman Catholic communities. Please indicate the community to which you belongby ticking the appropriate box below:I am a member of the Protestant communityI am a member of the Roman Catholic community:I am not a member of either the Protestant or theRoman Catholic communities:If you do not answer the above question, we are encouraged to use the residuary method of making a determination,which means that we can make a determination as to your community background on the basis of the personalinformation supplied by you in your application form/personnel file.GENDER:Please indicate your gender by ticking the appropriate box below:Male:Female:Note: If you answer these questions about community background and gender you are obliged to do sotruthfully, as it is a criminal offence under the Fair Employment (Monitoring) Regulations (NI) 1999 toknowingly give false answers to these questions.9

AGE:Please state your date of birth:Date of Birth:__________________________________Or, alternatively, tick the appropriate box to indicate the age band to which you belong:Age Band:16 – 20: 21 – 30: 31 – 40:41 – 50: 51 – 60: 61 – 64:65 and over:RACE, COLOUR, ETHNICITY, NATIONALITY:My Nationality is:_______________________________________Please indicate your race or colour or ethnic or national origins:BangladeshiPakistaniBlack AfricanWhiteBlack CaribbeanBlack OtherChineseIndianIrish TravellerAny other (state which): _______________________10

DISABILITY:Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 a person is deemed to be a disabled person if he or she has a physical ormental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal dayto-dayactivities. Please note that it is the effect of the impairment without treatment which determines whether anindividual meets this definition.Do you consider that you are a disabled person?Yes:No:If “yes”, please indicate the nature of the disability by ticking the appropriate box or boxes below:Hearing impairment:Visual impairment:Speech impairment:Mobility impairment:Learning difficulties:Severe disfigurement:Physical co-ordination difficulties:Reduced physical capacity:Mental health impairment:Long-standing or progressive illness or health condition,such as cancer; HIV infection; diabetes, chronic heart disease, epilepsy:Reasonable adjustmentsAre there any reasonable adjustments that we could make that would enable you to enjoy equality of opportunity inour recruitment process or in our employment arrangements? Please set out below the nature of any adjustments thatyou may need:11

SEXUAL ORIENTATION:My Sexual orientation is towards:Persons of a different sex to me:Persons of the same sex as me:Persons of both sexes:I would rather not say:MARITAL STATUS/CIVIL PARTNERSHIP STATUS:Are you married or in a civil partnership?Yes:No:SOURCE OF APPLICATION:To enable us to monitor the effectiveness of our recruitment advertising, please indicate where you first saw this jobadvertised:Belfast Telegraph:Aer Lingus website:Other:12