So on top of ALL of the reading material I'm doing for a possible interview, I have to add in a book called "Eats, shoots and leaves". I'm not gonna bomb an interview, because I put a comma, in the wrong, place.
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But you may not get invited to an interview because poor English grammar indicates a lack of education at a level necessary to operate and conduct business in today's world. I think it's terribly ironic that such a situation comes from Memphis, where the term "quality education" asks how far from the bottom can public education sink?
a. The FEX Written: Although the currency of the exam may vary depending on your current employment status, we require all candidates to have a current/recent exam (within the past 18 months). We will add this note to the profile system in order to prevent further confusion.
Does FedEx want a current FE written (2 years), or one taken within 18 months? Further confusion . . . . .
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So on top of ALL of the reading material I'm doing for a possible interview, I have to add in a book called "Eats, shoots and leaves". I'm not gonna bomb an interview, because I put a comma, in the wrong, place.
Did I miss something here? Like an essay or something? The only thing I personally submitted was a resume, and that hardly requires much "punctuation."
However, I am proud to say that the recommendation letters written by my buddies were punctuated quite nicely!
I'm uncertain how to apply the mil conversion. The app says, "You may add a plus (.2) per sortie factor to your flight times." Which flight times are those? It would be easy to apply a factor to Total Time but that's not an option. How would one do it to PIC, for instance? Would one use a ratio of PIC to TT and multiply that by the total number of sorties in that airframe to come up with a useful sortie count? And, if one applies it to one time, should one also apply it to all (including Night, and how do you do that - assuming each night sortie has not been tracked)?
I'm uncertain how to apply the mil conversion. The app says, "You may add a plus (.2) per sortie factor to your flight times." Which flight times are those? It would be easy to apply a factor to Total Time but that's not an option. How would one do it to PIC, for instance? Would one use a ratio of PIC to TT and multiply that by the total number of sorties in that airframe to come up with a useful sortie count? And, if one applies it to one time, should one also apply it to all (including Night, and how do you do that - assuming each night sortie has not been tracked)?
I see two schools of thought in regards to converting. If you do not meet minimums, the conversion may help you out. If you do meet the minimums, the conversion will give you a couple hundred hours extra, possibly.
I elected to not convert my times. Reasoning was that you stray into a grey area as illustrated by your line of questioning. What times do I convert? If I have 800 sorties logged as an AC/IP and 2000 hours of PIC including 900 IP hours how do I proceed? Not to say there aren't ways to mathematically and logically explain this conversion, but for me it was just easier to circle the primary, secondary and instructor times on my Individual Flying History. No explanations or elaborate formulas. Just let the record reflect!
Dude. All of your Tweet and T-1 time amounts to about 200 hrs. I'm betting 200 hrs. won't make or break you either way, so why not play it conservatively and NOT include it? If you think 200 hrs. will be a tie breaker between you and some other dude, you're wrong. People get way too wrapped around the axle about hours. As long as you meet the min. requirements and upgrade to A/C and IP in normal progression, and your hours roughly match your years of service, that is all that matters.
Good point. Mins are well met and no conversion used to be as conservative as possible so I guess I'll just take it out of my resume.
I agree with EP. My thoughts are that if you have the mins without the conversion, don't use the conversion (especially with whatever flight summary/resume you bring to the interview). For me it was only another 60 hours or so (longer sorties) but took about 1/2 an hour each time I went to update my totals. Like somebody said on another thread, we put tend to put too much emphasis on our flight hours. I doubt they would screen somebody out of an interview over 60 hours. But I could be wrong.
On a separate note, how is everybody listing their recip PIC time? I included all at the bottom as "Other Less Than 12,500 lbs" with a note on the side explaining it was non-turbine. My concern is that the total PIC on the bottom includes this time, ie. I don't see a separate PIC turbine total anywhere which might be matched up with my resume.
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