Assessments - Assessing for the aviation industry

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As with many sectors, the aviation industry is witnessing a shortage of strong talent, forecasted growth and the need to retain skills and knowledge in-house.

"It's true that within the aviation industry everybody just thinks about pilots, cabin crew. But it's not all about the people in the sky", says Mark Duffy from Ryanair.

Howard Grosvenor, Strategic Solutions Director from Aon - "A big trend in aviation talent is about how to attract candidates and how to build a really powerful brand."

Bernard Creed from Dubai Duty Free - A lot of their talent issues are very similar to ones of other large companies in the UAE that are customer-facing.

Andy O'Shea, Chairman of Aircrew Training Policy Group - "Airlines need to understand, that to get the right people in, especially in the cockpit, is that you have to have a selection process."

Andy O'Shea, Chairman at Aircrew Training Policy Group (ATPG) - "It is so important for the industry, every aspect of the industry, now that we come against this enormous wave of expansion."

Alan Whittaker from L3Harris - "There is a massive talent pool out there that we could be missing out on and the challenge is to try and to tap into that pool to sustain the pipeline that we've got."

We can assess the qualities and competencies required regardless of educational background, says Alan Whittaker from L3Harris.

It depends by much on the question, 'What would you like to gain through using technology?'. Save costs? Be more efficient? Do you want to concentrate on standardization?"

Suzanne Courtney, European Growth Director at Aon's Assessment Solutions - For the future of assessment in the aviation industry. There are three things to think about. It's a really broad topic.

The biggest challenge in the aviation industry: an expanding industry with a need for skilled talent that cannot be generated overnight. Aon talks to David Learmount, consulting editor at Flightglobal

The airline industry is facing many opportunities and challenges. Some of these are brought about by changes in technology, changes in demographic profile and customer expectation.

Petter Hornfeldt from Mentour 360: We have a problem in the business at the moment, where 95% of the employees are male and only 5% are female and we need to do something about that.