Originally Posted by
rcfd13
I don't know who you heard that from but it's false. I interviewed with 10 people. Two of us were CFIs with just over 1,000 hours and zero turbine time. The other 8 had some form of turbine, corporate or 121 experience. The only two people in my interview class who were hired were me and the other CFI.
Dude, they haven't hired people with those credentials in a LONG time. A lot has changed since then.
Originally Posted by
rcfd13
They don't care about your background. They care about whether you seem like a fun person to fly with, and whether you're trainable IE. you prepared well for the interview.
Camielle herself told the flight school I instructed at more than a year ago they didn't need much in the way of CFIs, and that preference was given to people with prior 121. So there's that, from the horse's mouth.
Originally Posted by
rcfd13
You may want to consider that the reason you're not getting interviews or not getting past them may be due to attitude. You keep saying that Skywest has some problem with CFIs and you can't figure out why they won't give you an interview.
I have zero face to face time with anyone over airline apps. I'm prepared to tackle any of my weaknesses, including aptitude, attitude and appearance (or anything else), but if you're going to give me advice I only ask that it be advice I can use. How would an attitude problem prevent me from getting an interview?
You got hired on at 1,000 hours. Forgive me if I'm a little burned out, but this has been an extremely long road to walk down to be a clean, certificated 2,000 hour pilot that's never failed a checkride and feel shut out of the industry due to a number of factors.
Originally Posted by
rcfd13
You also said that you were treated with a lot of disrespect at the Republic interview before being denied the job. From the people I know at both airlines those things are both very far from the truth. In order to see that side of an interviewer you would have to rub them the wrong way somehow.
I'm serious, I am honestly prepared to improve whatever I need to, but I didn't display any attitude there. She came out of the gate yelling at people. I had 3 different friends that said she did that, but they waited until after to tell me because they didn't want me to get psyched out. There's my firsthand testimony that it happened to me.
I keep seeing people on here that claim they have a couple offers, and that the industry is hurting for pilots. My friends and I have had the opposite experience, and I know someone at most of the carriers. Our stories are so different I can't help but wonder if there are PR plants posing as young pilots here on the forums.