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Old 01-26-2011, 06:50 AM
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Originally Posted by FlyJSH View Post
No, they shouldn't do it for a loss. They SHOULD charge the companies attending a fee to introduce them to such fantastic applicants.

Ask yourself this: how many job fairs in OTHER industries charge applicants? The answer, darn few.
In other industries you're not penalized for jumping from job to job with probation pay, making your dream job even more distant.

But that's neither here nor there.

Charge the companies for giving applicants basically a face-to-face opportunity they otherwise wouldn't have? Please. It's not like there's a shortage of applicants and they need to pay the Job Fair some kind of Head-Hunters fee. We're lucky Airline HR departments are willing to do this. Airlines themselves used to charge $50 per app.

Right, wrong, or indifferent, you have to ask yourself if the price of admission is worth the services tendered. I'm sure the place will be full of people who think so. If you land a job at a Major for double the salary, was the few hundred dollars spent at a couple job fairs worth it? Oh well, like I said, the only thing worse than whiny pilots are Generation Y whiny pilots who think they should get something for nothing. If you're cheap, don't go...but don't argue that you're somehow entitled to a service that everyone else should pay for but yourself.

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