Originally Posted by
Otterbox
Yet these same legacies are hiring more folks than those avenues can provide and will be for the foreseeable future. The flows and preferential interviews are recruitment tools to keep their regionals staffed. There are definitely non military folks getting hired at AA off the street and word is that Only 1/3 of the folks getting preferential interviews at DAL are getting a Job offer. The CPP folks at United Express carriers get snagged by the hogan all of the time.
Don't invent additional barriers to dissuade yourself from applying. If you meet the minimum requirments throw in an application and start working on ways to improve it as you get more serious about leaving.
I think the biggest barrier most guy face or at least for me is time and money. Finding the time (which means sacrificing our precious days off ) to go out to those job fairs to stand in line with a bunch of other guys to be able to speak a recruiter for a couple of minutes. And the need to spend money on hotels, cars, and resume services to go to these job fairs in hopes that maybe the big boys will call.