Originally Posted by
dojetdriver
It makes good resume material. You have proved that you can conform, follow rules, are disciplined, have leadership ability, a team player, able to handle stressful situations, and host of other valuable skills that airlines look for. So of course having that experience is ALWAYS to your advantage.
Whatever airline you want to go to work for is going to call you for interview based on your flight experience.
When they interview you, the choice to hire you is going to be based on how you handled their interview, as well as how good of a job you did selling yourself on how well you will fit into their company. As well as whether or not they can handle flying a 4 day trip with you.
dojetdriver - this is a great list. I think I'll keep this post and use all those traits in my resume.
This was recently told to me as the number one quality they (a company) was looking for. Most applicants are highly motivated, have thousands of hours of experience, and are very equally matched based on what is on the resume. It was the personality that came across at the interview that was the tie breaker.
rickair7777 - It seems that many companies don't really care how much flight time you have as long as you meet the minimums. I mean other threads on the forum are rife with stories of people with crazy amounts of time not getting jobs while others who had to use conversions just to make the mins are getting hired. I've heard others say on here that once you get past a few milestones in the TT, PIC, and Turbine time that the number of hours doesn't really matter. Do you not agree with this?
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