Originally Posted by
Super EZ E
You are correct everything isn't a scam but these folks hustle. It's 100% scam just like the fee based job fairs. Yup Seriously it's a scam/hustle! These jokers charge you to get "prepped" and after the interview call you to get the gouge and check if the gouge they have is current. 100% hustle! Better hope the questions don't change! 100% refund!! LOL UAL was smart and started asking the Lat/long of your home airport. They use control questions for good reason! Who's trying to beat the system?? Go learn what you need to know as a professional aviator and you'll get the job you deserve. Stop buying gouge!!
Pay for job fairs are scams.
Interview consulting is not a scam. EC did not teach gouge at all. Good interview skills aren’t necessarily instinctual in an HR world. It’s not a boys club hiring other pilots. Knowing how to act and what to say and how and when to say it are learned mostly either through experience of failing or through being taught. And when I say “what to say” I don’t mean it in a specific way but in a generic sense. If you’ve used an interview consultant you’d know that they don’t teach a gouge. A lot of it is just good common sense but it’s a confidence builder knowing you prepared and also informs you on hot button topics that we sling around in the cockpit but can get you in trouble in an HR interview. I’m not talking about obvious things but more subtle things you might say in passing but not even realize it, as well as general body language you put out.
I think of myself as a generally personable guy that interviews well but that’s my own biased opinion. It’s nice to have a second objective opinion.