In an Instagram post, the German flag carrier, Lufthansa has said that while it continues to hire new cabin crew, it will be unable to accept any further applications due to the “overwhelming numbers” the recruitment team has already received. The airline recommends that interested candidates should instead sign up for job alerts on Lufthansa’s official careers website.
Taking the time to thank everyone who has already sent in their application, the recruitment team has announced plans to run an online Q&A session with serving Lufthansa flight attendants, Lea and Masha on Friday 6th April. The chat will take place between 4-6pm CEST.
Applications are normally open to European passport holders who are fluent in both German and English. Lufthansa has major cabin crew bases in both Munich and Frankfurt – successful candidates would be expected to be willing to relocate. The minimum age to become a ‘flugbegleiter’ (flight attendant) in Germany is 18-years old and you must be between 1.60 metres and 1.95 metres tall.
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While Lufthansa receives most of its cabin crew applications via the ‘Be Lufthansa’ careers portal, the airline has also experimented with special Open Day’s – or what the airline calls ‘Castings’.
There were 11 such casting events held in 2017 and two more were held in January. Last year, over 4, 000 candidates attended a Casting event with nearly 1 in every 3 applicants being offered a job.
Candidates simply need a passport to take part in a Casting event – you don’t even need a resume. If you impress during a one-on-one interview, you take part in other elements of the Assessment Day. Successful candidates find out the very same day!
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Earlier this year, the Lufthansa Group announced plans to hire around 8, 000 new staff in 2018 – the majority of which will be flight attendants. Lufthansa will have 2, 500 new hires for its Frankfurt and Munich hubs while many more will be joining other airlines in the Lufthansa Group.
Some of the Germanwings positions are only available to experienced cabin crew who have previously been trained to operate on the Airbus A320 family of aircraft. More details are available on the Lufthansa Group careers website.
Lufthansa is also accepting applications from Korean nationals to join their team in Frankfurt. You must already hold a residence permit for a European country and be fluent in both English and Korean – Additional German language skills would be a definite advantage.
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Being a flight attendant is a dream job for many South Korean women. But there are serious barriers to join their ranks. Roman Babakin/Shutterstock
It was only 1993 when United flight attendants reported that they were fasting, purging, and taking laxatives to keep their figure — and their jobs. If the crew members weighed more than 11 pounds over the maximum, they would receive 10 days of unpaid temporary leave, the Chicago Tribune reported at the time.
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Such rules have since been softened or outright banned in much of the world. But flight attendant hopefuls in South Korea still report significant pressure to look a certain way — and it's leading them to take drastic measures.
Leading Korean airlines in South Korea like Asiana Airlines and Korean Air dropped their height stipulation and softened their language requirements for aspiring flight attendants in 2015, local media reported.
But in practice, thanks to a combination of factors including the job application process and Korean standards of beauty, flight attendant hopefuls have reported feeling pressured by an unspoken requirement to be more beautiful, The Korea Herald reported.
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The flight attendants are actually the representative of the airline, Sojin Lim, a 25-year-old Seoul resident who worked for a domestic Korean airline, told Business Insider. How they look will affect the image of it, so they have to always look formal and neat.
It's typical for job applications in South Korea to require an ID photo. Because of that, many job applicants in South Korea say they feel the pressure to appear good-looking, whether it's to be a flight attendant, an engineer, or a cashier.
In fact, a 2016 survey by Saramin, a Korean online job portal, found that more than 60% of human resources personnel feel an applicant's appearance affects his or her candidacy.
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Through the interview process and a résumé photo, applicants in Korea know that a well-groomed appearance are needed for the job search. Lee Jae Won/Reuters
The Korean government is seeking to overturn the résumé photo requirement in sweeping regulations that would also ban employers from asking applicants their height, weight, family background, and hometown.
But for now, job applicants in South Korea report feeling pressured to create a flawless application package — including a perfect résumé photo — to snag a job.
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Some job applicants turn to photo editing to improve their résumé photos. It looked like me but it wasn't the real me, Jina Chae, a 27-year-old Seoul resident, told Business Insider of her résumé photo, which was edited to make her eyes larger, face slimmer, and wrinkles banished. It was like a made-up photo.
I would have to put my energy to take a good picture, Saerang Cha, a Toronto-based business analyst who previously worked in Korea, told Business Insider. I'm not saying that the pictures are the most important thing, but finding a job in Korea is incredibly hard. We just want everything to be perfect.
Young college graduates are especially challenged as youth unemployment in South Korea has reached record highs. As the economy goes bad, there aren't many good jobs, and the competition is fierce, 28-year-old Baek Eui-hyun told NPR in 2017.
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A dream job for many young South Korean women has been to become a flight attendant, a job that promises travel, new experiences, and great pay and perks. At $3, 500 per month, it's better paid than most jobs for women in South Korea.
It's a pride to be a fight attendant in Korea since most of the people think it's a 'classy' job, Sojin Lim, a 25-year-old Seoul resident who used to work for a domestic Korean airline, told Business Insider. And of course, they get to travel around the world and earn much more money than the usual job in Korea.
Most flight attendants will find themselves based at Incheon International Airport, which is about an hour from Seoul and one of the world's busiest airports. Sorbis/Shutterstock
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The job is so competitive that more than 20, 000 applicants might apply for a few hundred spots, and aspiring flight attendants sometimes apply nine times for the job. The application process requires physical tests and fluency in languages like English and Chinese.
Domestic airlines, like Korean Air and Asiana Airlines, are popular choices for flight attendants, as well as Emirates, Qatar Airways and Lufthansa. Sorbis /Shutterstock
During interviews, South Korean airlines often grade attendants on how well they do their hair and makeup and include this information on their personnel records, Lim said. Because they always look perfectly formal and so neat, a lot of people envy them and dream to be a fight attendant, she told Business Insider.
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I think you can compare it to some sort of beauty contest, Pablo Lee, who directs a flight attendant academy, told The Korea Herald. They have to be physically perfect. More than 132 pounds is kind of overweight, he said.
Flight attendant academies in South Korea prepare would-be flight attendants for the interview process and teach students about the best grooming practices, as well as hospitality primers and how to nail English and Korean interviews. It takes six to 12 months of preparation from these academies.
Women who successfully landed a job as a flight attendant in 2017 who went through the Seoul-based Wing Sky Crew Academy were, on average, 24.7 years old, 5 foot 5 inches, and 110 pounds. They had an average Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) score of 700 points, indicating limited working proficiency in English language.
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Slenderness, youth and good English skills are non-negotiable for most flight attendants in Korea. Applicants older than 30 years old are rarely considered. Sorbis/Shutterstock
While looks may not be the most important part of a flight attendant’s application, many applicants report feeling the pressure of perfection. That's why some women hoping to join the elite ranks of Korea’s flight attendant class consider or receive plastic surgery.
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