Originally Posted by
Bzzt
That is partly true for all business. In careers outside of aviation there are some metrics you can be measured on against your peers. Salesman get sales numbers, managers have productivity metrics, etc. As a pilot there is nothing we can do to distinguish ourselves from the pack once we've embarked on this career other than go to job fairs and suck up to mainline pilots. I'd equate the airline career more to being a politician than a baseball player.
Umm... our metric is flight experience, PIC time, type ratings, recency, check airmen, etc. Other jobs have sales and productivity metrics, yet that still wont beat out a peer with less "metrics" if they're a golf buddy, family friend, extremely smoking hot, or a rare ethnic minority. Face it, aviation really isnt any different from mainstream business as far as hiring is concerned.