Originally Posted by
AirBear
Got an update on my neighbor today. He is still interviewing with UAL (900+ hour F/O at PSA) but it's going to be at an upcoming job fair, not at UAL's main facility. Now he also has scored an interview with AA at the same fair. I found this a bit surprising since he's years away from flowing. Maybe AA is using some common sense knowing that they'll lose him one way or the other. I've been out of the game for a number of years so I don't know if a job fair interview can lead to a CJO or just a chance for an interview at the main facility for that airline.
Unless things have changed since I was interviewing, the job fair meet and greets or “interviews” didn’t do much except maybe give you a point on the computer scored application or trigger a manual scoring of the app with a set of eyes. Getting to speak to a recruiter didn’t require any real qualifications, but maybe that has changed.
To actually land a real interview either requires amazing connections or competitive qualifications.