Job Fairs for Legacy Airlines Obsolete?
#11
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Let us hope that one day they will become a thing of the far distant past where pilots would not have to wait for hours in line and spend hundreds of dollars so that they could earn five minutes of meager time with a recruiter who has already written 95% of us off within three seconds of seeing us.
And for those in awe of the pic, you should have seen it before the concept of the "fast pass" or reserved time slot came about.
You'd stand in line for hours at times. Pretty much like the people now that are too late to get a slot/fast pass. Just imagine hundreds and hundreds in line, waiting all day, for a few precious moments with a recruiter that's shook the hands of probably a thousand people that day, asked the SAME questions, got the SAME responses, looked at the SAME resumes.....
It could kind of remind you of the song/video for Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall".
#12
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Hopefully the guys touting their 'pride' refuse to go to job fairs.
Why do something that is known to improve the odds? Only a fool would do that.
I enjoy the B.S. opinions(eg. written off 95%). Before posting them have you actually asked how the program works? The success rate of job fair attendees vs guys who didn't?
Why do something that is known to improve the odds? Only a fool would do that.
I enjoy the B.S. opinions(eg. written off 95%). Before posting them have you actually asked how the program works? The success rate of job fair attendees vs guys who didn't?
#13
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If life is so short and time is so precious, what are you doing reading an airline pilot internet forum? Shouldn't you be sky diving, Rocky Mountain climbing and going 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu??
P.S. I went to your profile just to see how active you were on here and it said you were viewing "Delta Hiring News". Ironic?
P.S. I went to your profile just to see how active you were on here and it said you were viewing "Delta Hiring News". Ironic?
#14
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#15
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Back to job fairs. People should stop going to them. Airlines will hire regardless.
#16
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Agreed (kinda). I'm just giving you a hard time. I went this month to my first (probably won't do another) and it did at least get my app scored by Delta. Sure everyone Is/will be hiring, but when seniority is everything it's hard to sit around and wait. At least for me...everyone's different.
#17
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I think starting 6 months from now and then for a year after that, nobody at all should go to job fairs. I'll check them out for y'all and report back, I promise. Don't update your apps either, that's a sucker's game. Remember how someone who never succeeded at anything told you how all the good things in life are free? There's no pay to play for anything good in *this* industry so don't bother with interview prep or anything with a fee, 'cause hey remember that facebook meme about blah blah happy people blah blah?
Most certainly don't read any new-hire trip reports about how their apps sat dormant until right after they went to a job fair. They're either lying or they don't know how it "really works".
Most certainly don't read any new-hire trip reports about how their apps sat dormant until right after they went to a job fair. They're either lying or they don't know how it "really works".
#18
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I think it is obvious when some of the same candidates get called by all of the airlines. There was an Academy Grad on the "whose been hired" thread that interviewed at all of them and was finally hired at FedEx. I bet any money if he does nothing to his apps he will get called again in 6 months to a year to interview at all of them again.
Explaining to a recruiter at a job fair why you have a poor GPA, have Part 61 training instead of Part 141, online college or whatever the disqualifers are is still not going to make the computer pick you even if it was 20 years ago and they like the hell out of you.
Emerald Coast, Centerline Prep and Aerocrew should have all kinds of data on the people getting actual interviews at the top tier airlines, their qualifications and whether or not they went to a job fair.
#19
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Hopefully the guys touting their 'pride' refuse to go to job fairs.
Why do something that is known to improve the odds? Only a fool would do that.
I enjoy the B.S. opinions(eg. written off 95%). Before posting them have you actually asked how the program works? The success rate of job fair attendees vs guys who didn't?
Why do something that is known to improve the odds? Only a fool would do that.
I enjoy the B.S. opinions(eg. written off 95%). Before posting them have you actually asked how the program works? The success rate of job fair attendees vs guys who didn't?
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