Before You ‘Register Interest’ With Emirates
(Or: How to Accidentally Apply for a Job Without Meaning To – bugger)
You know that innocent little button that says “Register Interest”? Yeah — turns out it’s not that innocent after all.
The wording sounds harmless, like something you’d click while sipping tea and dreaming of travel during a lockdown.
What you’re actually doing is applying.
Let me say that another way. By registering interest, you’re giving Emirates permission to screen and process your application. Immediately.
If that’s what you meant to do, woo hoo.
But if you thought you were just signing up for updates — and submitted a placeholder application — uh-oh. Evacuate evacuate and take that placeholder application with you before you get auto-rejected by the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
A rejection here does mean a mandatory three-month wait before you can apply again, even if you only meant to register interest.
That’s the upside, by the way. It used to be six months. So, you know — small mercies.
What Actually Happens When You Register Interest
- You fill out the full application form.
- You upload your résumé.
- You submit your photographs.
And then? Your application goes on file for six weeks.
If recruitment goes live during that window, so does your application — in whatever condition you left it.
Hmm, I wonder if this is the secret to that wild 300,000 influx of applications?
If it doesn’t go live? No problem. Your application is deleted. Quietly. Lovingly. Without ceremony.
Can You Edit Your Submission Later?
In theory, yes. In practice, I lost edit access within an hour when my application accidentally went live — all during a “register interest” phase. Which is how I discovered this sneaky little bug in the system.
After that, your only option is to withdraw and start again.
And yes, that resets the three and six month clock.
So please, let me say it again for the applicants in the back.
Never submit a half-finished application to a live site because FOMO told you to. Not even if you swear you’ll fix it later.
But What If You Miss It?
Relax. Don’t get your knickers in a twist. Emirates recruitment is like a bus. There’s always another one coming.
And if you’re truly worried, learn to read corporate reports — the answers to your recruitment anxiety are all in there. (Dry, yes. But revealing.)
Recruitment does pause from time to time — usually for things like pandemics or, you know, global terror events — and when that happens, everyone’s application goes in the bin anyway.
