Narrative:

New first officer tells me he had 80 hours of IOE and repeated lessons 4; 5; and 6. This first officer is now 62 years of age and tells me he has 10000 plus hours of flying experience. The first officer was the flying pilot into ZZZ for runway xxc. The weather was VMC; controller vectors us onto runway xxc at a 60 degree angle (cleared for the visual). The first officer arms the approach; I tell the first officer to wait until we are on a shallower intercept to arm the approach (heading mode until arming). Same situation on the following day (cleared for the visual). This time I am looking outside to my left at runway and for traffic. As I was looking outside; the first officer arms the approach without telling me. The airplane catches the runway xxc localizer in the opposite direction. The plane starts a turn to the right and not to the left. It took me 5 or 10 seconds to realize the first officer had armed the approach too early. I then told him 'my controls'; turned off the autopilot and started a hard left hand turn. At that moment; the controller asked us our heading and gave us another vector to the left. The first officer had no idea where the airplane was headed; he was looking inside the whole time; even though he told me (runway is in sight). If I had not taken immediate action; we would have caused a TCAS RA with the airplane on runway xxr.in the last 60 days; I have flown with fos that are not up to standards to be online. I am not an IOE captain and yet I find myself performing IOE. Training standards need to be raised to what they were in the past. I have also flown with several new fos that do not understand and speak basic english. I am flying single pilot at times and this is causing huge issues with safety and fatigue for me.

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Title: CRJ700 Captain reported that recently he has flown with several First Officers that are not up to standards to be online.

Narrative: New First Officer tells me he had 80 hours of IOE and repeated lessons 4; 5; and 6. This FO is now 62 years of age and tells me he has 10000 plus hours of flying experience. The FO was the flying pilot into ZZZ for Runway XXC. The weather was VMC; controller vectors us onto Runway XXC at a 60 degree angle (cleared for the visual). The FO arms the approach; I tell the FO to wait until we are on a shallower intercept to arm the approach (heading mode until arming). Same situation on the following day (cleared for the visual). This time I am looking outside to my left at runway and for traffic. As I was looking outside; the FO arms the approach without telling me. The airplane catches the Runway XXC LOC in the opposite direction. The plane starts a turn to the right and not to the left. It took me 5 or 10 seconds to realize the FO had armed the approach too early. I then told him 'My Controls'; turned off the autopilot and started a hard left hand turn. At that moment; the controller asked us our heading and gave us another vector to the left. The FO had no idea where the airplane was headed; he was looking inside the whole time; even though he told me (runway is in sight). If I had not taken immediate action; we would have caused a TCAS RA with the airplane on Runway XXR.In the last 60 days; I have flown with FOs that are not up to standards to be online. I am not an IOE Captain and yet I find myself performing IOE. Training standards need to be raised to what they were in the past. I have also flown with several new FOs that do not understand and speak basic English. I am flying single pilot at times and this is causing huge issues with safety and fatigue for me.

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