Originally Posted by
f10a
And for those who already have a solid foundation of corporate experience? Are you forever locked into the 1 type you are currently flying? By the logic of most of the job postings it would seem that way.
(again, this is just from my experience down in Socal - YMMV)
For the desirable jobs, the job postings exist mainly to satisfy HR and the lawyers. When a seat becomes available, the department head typically already has a handful of names (s)he'd love to have in the position. You want to be on that list. And to do that, the networking was done long before the job became available.
If you get yourself in that position (assuming you meet some baseline of experience otherwise) the time in type becomes irrelevant.