Which company rep. from Atlas will be at the job fair in MIA on Friday? I plan on attending and never been to a job fair before. Starts at 8 and goes all day. I got a seniority number a few days ago. Anyone have info on how helpful attending can be on getting interviewed/hired at Atlas?
Any other info on job fairs like this?
I see some airlines will conduct interviews on the spot.
Only interested in Atlas!

 

Of the many things Atlas does not communicate with us, however internal promotions seem top priority these days, what job fair and who's going is one of them. We get very little communication from the company and recruitment is part of that long list of things they don't share.

But worry not, most likely it will be similar players form past recruitment events meaning someone from HR and possibly even MIA. As far as I am aware, Women In Aviation and OBAP are the only two they take pilots with them to help recruit (but that is just a guess on my part)

Now, as for advice, keeping in mind I have not been to this type of job fair so I don't particularly know exactly how it works there; here is my advice:

1. BE YOURSELF!! By far #1 item on the list! This isn't a "who's the smartest of them all" contest, this is our recruiters looking for warm, friendly, confident personalities that they'd love to be in an office with for 14h at a time, let along flying with fellow pilots. We don't want to fly with someone that after the 14th hour we are ready to ditch on the overnight/overday.

2. Have a few "tell me a time when" knock-your-socks-off stories just in case they ask. If you can tell a good story, you are fun to fly with!

3. Be interested in THEM! How fun is it flying with someone who's only subject of conversation is "I" and "me"?? The key to being a good conversationalist is to talk about fun stuff and be interested in the story of others you are flying with. Not sure how much time you will have with the recruiters but if you have a moment, find a good "I'm interested in YOU" question to ask them (about Atlas).

4. DO NOT VISIT ATLAS ONLY AND AS THE FIRST BOOTH YOU VISIT! I can't stress this enough. It's a job fair, you are expected to visit more than one booth, DO IT! It is good job fair strategy to go to every booth and let them know this is the only airline for you, it's normal. Let those other booths be your "practice booths" so that you make your mistakes there vs at the Atlas booth. You'll gain a good talk strategy that way and approach the Atlas recruiters with much more confidence having used the other airlines as your practice grounds.

Those are the top 4, If I think of more I'll post them, good luck!

 

OK your response is to good for just a PM reply. Thank you for posting that info. I agree with it completely, especially #4. Practice with the others and finish and score big at Atlas. The first time I interviewed with Polar was when all the Tower Air guys lost their jobs and I was the only Twin Piston driver there..LOL. A lot has happened between then and now. Still working on it. Maybe see other wannabees on Friday.

 

I will be attending as well Friday so thank you for the great piece of advice! Curious for other attendees, what do you plan on wearing? It says business casual but that means a very wide range of options. In addition, has anyone had experience with the seniority # system? How fast do they go through it? Thanks guys!

 

"Business Casual" at an interview or job fair means a suit!

 

It says on the FAPA website "business casual - leave your suit for the interview." Somewhere else on the website it says that wearing a suit may make it seem like you're trying too hard (whatever that means) and will make you stand out, but not in a good way.

It's all confusing to me, but I'm going to wear dress pants/shirt and a tie. Basically a suit without the jacket.

 

wear a suit. if/when you get a call to set up in the in person interview, your phone screen interviewer will tell you.

 

Business casual is what they requested. Not wearing a suit. So, dress pants/ slacks, collared shirt, dress shoes, no tie or jacket for me.
I am not sure how seniority works. Every time I look my number gets lower, I don't get it. Maybe people are backing out or not attending and that's changing the seniority?

 

Thanks for the replies so far!

It obviously says on the page to wear business casual. With that said, I don't see why they wouldn't want people wearing suits to a job fair. It doesn't make sense to me, but then again I didn't want to stand out for wearing the wrong attire either. I may just bring options for both lol.

My number is also going down rapidly which I'm guessing is due to the majors not showing up. Hopefully that means we can get some solid facetime with the recruiters and plead out case.

When is everyone going? I plan on taking an early flight tomorrow morning.

 

I think you'll find most people at these at the very least wearing a tie and many wearing a jacket as well. Regardless of what FAPA said, I wouldn't want to stand out as the underdressed guy...