Originally Posted by
Curveball
We were told by Delta at INDOC that they get about 10% of their interviewees from conferences. The vast percentage come from internal recommendations. I still think it helps, and both myself and my friends who have been hired attended a conference AND had an internal rec.
It's an expense to attend, but never write off an opportunity to talk directly to a rep from a company you want to work for.
Also, the fix it email only comes if there is actually something to fix or expand on. The app could have been scored and put in a lower tier for hiring.
Don't disagree with any of that.
But the point myself (and others) are making, the percentages are SLIM.
10%? DAL hires a pretty high percentage of those interviewed. But even going high, for the hiring of 2014 at DAL that would have been 100-110ish TOTAL? I'd have to look at the number hired again.
Add up the number of pilots that attended OBAP, WAI, and whatever other event DAL attended for years 2013 and 2014.
OBAP and WAI could probably tally 2000. But extracting non-competitive and non "Tier 1" candidates would drop that number naturally. But AGAIN, 10% is a small amount considering how many competitive people are in the "12,000 apps on file".
How did they EVER find good candidates before the job fair (SCAM) ever developed?
