Originally Posted by
BrazilBusDriver
Obviously it's a moving target, but I had the following when I got the offer from AA in August (and the day after I accepted I had a call from United wanting to schedule IIRC, or maybe it was a call from Pilot Recruiting asking me to update so they could schedule, I don't remember, but I didn't pursue it):
B767, B737, E145 types (at 121 operators, without failures)
1750 Turbine - all 121 (weird holdover from the pre-1500 days that got out of the industry for 10 years)
Checked the EEOC Protected Vet diversity hire box
Less than 2300 TT
250 TPIC @ 121 RJ operator
2 Master's (one of them even wasn't a fake military one) and a Bachelors
No failures other than a PPL stage check way back
No internal recs
No meet 'n' greets
I tried to slot those all in where I thought they ranked in terms of importance, but it's very much a guess...as others have said, it ain't apples to apples.
Type ratings isn't that high on the importance rank. Overseas it often is as they like to hire people with time in type. In the U.S. corporate and Part 135 might require, or prefer, time in type. But larger U.S. Part 121 don't care if the applicants have time in type.
What to they value the most? 1000 hrs TPIC ('highly qualified'), then 500 hrs TPIC ('competiviely qualified). Right up with those two is military flight training. They also like to see Part 121 experience as the training standards are fairly well known. They also like to see recent training, either an upgrade to Captain or a new type rating. Even better if it's at a 121 operator. They also want to see recent experience. They're just trying to increase the odds that they think the candidate they hire will pass the training and has a background that improves those odds.