Originally Posted by
justflytheplane
No what is funny is two of the three airlines you use both say preferred. And I know a lot who have been hired. So relax, I hope it all works out for you. I can tell your always right.
I'm all ready at my career airline of choice, thanks, so it has all ready long since "worked out." I have no dog in this fight.
The whole point of these forums is discussion, not an echo chamber of folks feeding each other bad information and then back-slapping about how smart they are. I don't agree with the opinions being presented in this thread as fact, so I'm simply trying to inject some reality into the fantasy some have.
It is fine that people really, really want to believe that they can have their professional flying career without going to college. Good luck to 'em...but it doesn't change the reality of what the hiring picture looks like now. It may have looked different in the past, and may look different in the future, but this is the story today.
How many threads to we see on APC of people grinding their teeth, frustrated that they can't get called for an interview at a major airline? How many OBAP and WAI and NGPA threads about paying bucks and standing in line? How many debates about volunteerism on the resume?
It is great that people want the system to change and for the bar to lower. Maybe it'll happen, and maybe it won't. Just think of all the income and seniority lost while waiting in the wings and betting on that chance.
What isn't great is that there are these very specific things that people can do to enhance their chances of getting hired at their career airline of choice, and yet the same people who want to move up the ladder won't do those specific things because they don't want to.
And then they gripe that they're not getting an interview call.
Yes, there are outliers. Outliers get hired with non-typical resumes and experience. Outliers are called outliers for a reason. Everyone wishes they could be an outlier, too, but statistically that just isn't possible.
The smart person doesn't bet a career on outliers. Nor does the smart person ignore plainly evident ways to make their resume more appealing to the people actually making the hiring decisions, instead hoping that market forces will magically move the goalpost closer to them.
One would think that folks with the intelligence of professional aviators would be smarter than that.