I was a corporate pilot my whole career whose job was going away soon due to a buyout. I decided to bite the bullet and attend a job fair. Once I attended that, everything happened pretty quickly.
The recruiter (retired mgmt pilot) was completely un-interested in my resume while he was looking at it until I mentioned that I’d been flying internationally quite a bit. Then he completely flipped.
Hogan came a couple weeks later. Interviewed about a month after the Hogan. Swam in the pool for 5ish months.