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Echelon, are you actively seeking. Doing the airline by airline game and so forth. Have flown with a few successful applicants and it was a full time job for them to chase down a major airline job. The four that I knew were at it for well over a year actively applying, meet & greet, job fairs and so forth. Good luck in your search
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Echelon, are you actively seeking. Doing the airline by airline game and so forth. Have flown with a few successful applicants and it was a full time job for them to chase down a major airline job. The four that I knew were at it for well over a year actively applying, meet & greet, job fairs and so forth. Good luck in your search
I don't know if I'd call updating apps every few weeks and soliciting recommendations for job fairs a full time job, but I am doing those things. Not really sure what else to be doing, TBH. Seems like kind of a crap shoot
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Echelon, are you actively seeking. Doing the airline by airline game and so forth. Have flown with a few successful applicants and it was a full time job for them to chase down a major airline job. The four that I knew were at it for well over a year actively applying, meet & greet, job fairs and so forth. Good luck in your search
But if you're committed to moving on, full court press is the way to go.
#116
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Thanks, and for the record I fully appreciate how fortunate I am to be young enough with little enough invested here to not have to think hard about leaving, should the opportunity present itself. I know most people aren't that lucky.
I don't know if I'd call updating apps every few weeks and soliciting recommendations for job fairs a full time job, but I am doing those things. Not really sure what else to be doing, TBH. Seems like kind of a crap shoot
I don't know if I'd call updating apps every few weeks and soliciting recommendations for job fairs a full time job, but I am doing those things. Not really sure what else to be doing, TBH. Seems like kind of a crap shoot
#117
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Thanks, and for the record I fully appreciate how fortunate I am to be young enough with little enough invested here to not have to think hard about leaving, should the opportunity present itself. I know most people aren't that lucky.
I don't know if I'd call updating apps every few weeks and soliciting recommendations for job fairs a full time job, but I am doing those things. Not really sure what else to be doing, TBH. Seems like kind of a crap shoot
I don't know if I'd call updating apps every few weeks and soliciting recommendations for job fairs a full time job, but I am doing those things. Not really sure what else to be doing, TBH. Seems like kind of a crap shoot
The only info I can give you is the airline apps process, I think American has a different application. You need to be updating every 30 days, but the first thing I would do is have someone review your app. There are a ton of little stupid things you might not know about or things in the application that you should be explaining. Spellings of words, explaining out your job duties, etc. Your app needs to be bulletproof. I had misspellings or punctuation problems after I had reviewed the app 100 times. Next find anyone you know that works there to write you a rec. This should get your app scored. It can only be scored once a year. There is also an email, I've been told, that internal employees can email that will get your app scored.
I went to a job fair four years ago, not sure if that helped. I think the internal recs hold the most weight, it seems like I got traction after a friend used "the email" and also another friend rewrote me a rec using his company email on airline apps.
I've heard volunteering holds a lot of weight although I hadn't done much in 10 years. If you want more info PM me. It seems hopeless but I can guarantee you it's not. Just a long process.
Last edited by Beta82; 12-28-2018 at 09:11 AM. Reason: clarity
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