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Doc1010
That being said, it also felt quite anonymous in that the only few minutes where a Southwest recruiter would know me from the proverbial Adam was during the one-on-one. As previously stated, the one-on-one session was more of a coaching session and application review, for me anyway, than anything extremely personal. The recruiter that spoke to me was very friendly and informative and certainly engaged in the process, but no notes were taken in my presence regarding our interaction. There was very little time for the recruiter to take notes outside of my presence as well as we concluded the session by together retrieving the next candidate.
I too was hoping for more during the one-on-one sessions. The sessions were the exact same format that they do at previous job fairs which was going over your resume briefly and then going thru your app on pilotcredentials.com to make sure there aren't any errors (which I've done multiple times this year when I met them at the Assoc job fairs (OBAP/WAI etc)). I was hoping for more of a chance to show why I wanted to be there and for them to get to know me as a person/applicant aside from the airlineapps stuff.
All in all it was an awesome event and coming from the pinch-a-penny regional world, I was pretty blown away with the training facilities/operation and how much everyone genuinely enjoys working at SWA (which is one of the main reasons I want to be there). Rocky did seem to indicate that those who were at the event will have a leg up on the rest of the applicant pool (approximately 3k applicants right now) over the short term for upcoming interviews. Fingers crossed.