Originally Posted by
andy171773
It's not the rating the regionals care about..it's the instruction time. 200 hours dual given is 100x more valuable than 400 hours single engine xc with a friend. Get your CFI and teach, you'll learn more teaching than you ever did as a student / time building.
Any person sitting on the hiring board that was a CFI will know this is true.
The CFI/dual given is not mandatory. But when you break it down, the big differentiators are probably (in no particular order):
-Total time
-Turbine PIC
-121 time
-135 time
-CFI time
-College degree
-Internal recommendations
Assuming you don't offend the people doing the interview and you can answer the basic technical questions, that's what you're going to get judged on. As hiring spools up the people with the most of those things will likely get hired first.