Originally Posted by
Rahlifer
Uncompetitive doesn’t mean unhireable. We had a fellow that used to put together some pretty nifty graphs of the hiring at the majors. The total time bell curve showed a sweet spot of around 6700 hours for most new hires with a shallow decline up to around 10,000 hours then a pretty sharp decline. The same graph for the LCCs had a sweet spot of around 3800 hours TT.
Just stay on the ball, keep your apps updated weekly and hit the job fair circuit. As soon as you start to stagnate, your odds of escape start to decrease.
Correlation is not necessarily causation. After 5-7K many of the most motivated are gone so the folks left, on average, are not trying as hard, or at all. After 10K, they are not trying at all or have some background showstopper.