Got both of the interviews but …
didn’t get the job ….
I was told during the last interview “500 folks applied, 100 were given an initial screening/technical interview and 12 were selected for the final interview.”
I made it to the final 12 …
Well, I got the bad news a couple weeks later and was told that they went with someone that they already knew and had experience with. I obviously was VERY cordial and thanked them for their time and respectfully requested they keep my info on file for any future opening, said good-bye and hung up.
Then I got a little frustrated after hanging up, not so much that I lost the job but that I spent close to $300 in logbook prep/printing, resume prep, interview presentation packets, etc... to lose the position to what sounded like a predetermined candidate.
So a quick question for my corporate pilot sages – as a pilot moving from a 121 career trying to get into corporate flying I’m a little confused, is this normal for a company go through the laborious HR interviewing process, i.e. interviewing multiple candidates over a period of months to still just hire a predetermined pilot (to meet a “legal” requirement?) or did I really have a shot?