MrMeeseeks

Anyone have examples or links they could share for some help creating airline specific CVs / Resumes? Any recommendations or advice?

Thanks Everyone.

TiredSoul

http://bfy.tw/JWpW


You’re welcome.

MrMeeseeks

So you’re basically saying it doesn’t matter as long as it’s professional? No specific preferences?

deftone

That was actually quite amusing, have never seen that before

rickair7777

Correct.

Generally in this order:

1) Education
2) Flight experience
3) Aviation employment history
4) Other employment history (skip this if it will force the resume over one page and the history is insignificant, ie retail, food service, etc.).
5) Personal info (volunteer, civic, leadership, athletics, ie "whole person stuff")

Sliceback

I’ve reviewed 300+ resumes. The most common format, by far, is -

Ratings/credentials

Flight time

Work history

Professional training

Education

In the link the second post provided I think it’s the fifth resume, by James Blogger, that is probably the most common format. Except scratch the personal information it has at the end. You can compete that resume format to others and they’re typically very similar.

There’s more to it than that resume example but that’s the common format.

Sometimes professional training is listed after college. And less frequently flight time is listed before credentials/ratings. But those are relatively minor changes.

TT is usually bolded and sometimes in its own line. It’s the first time the reviewers look for.

Jobs and college needs the months included the year - 9/2912 until 5/2015. Putting down 2012-2013 might be anything between one month and 24 months.

Sliceback

rickair- the SOP/ROE might have changed but in 2014-2016 the word at the job fairs was that DL wanted all employment from H.S. on and AA wanted it from college on.

Guys need to cut the fluff or obvious stuff especially if space gets tight. “Manage the aircraft in a safe manner according to company and FAA policies.” Guys write that, or similar stuff (taught students, lead wingman development, etc, etc) and its just takes up space and is a brain suck for the reviewer. If the job duties are obvious don’t add fluff. If the job duties in recent jobs aren’t obvious add some detail. Bar manager at TGIF in college? Mention it. Details? No.

Sliceback

The images have multiple examples mostly of the format I mentioned.
Skip #2 ‘Stacy Sample’, skip #6 Major Conrad Freedom, #9 Curriculum Vitae, and the basic format is the same.

NewCareer

In terms of content, any advice for the 40-year-old career changer?

I have worked for the same fortune 500 company (have been promoted etc, and done 5 different jobs or so) for 17 years.

Your point seems pretty clear though. Essentially don’t bore the reviewer with non applicable content. So maybe I should just list the different companies I’ve worked for, the dates, job titles, and a one liner description of the role?

Since I’m just about to get my Multi commercial and only have a little over 500 hours, i’m not worried about running out of room!

Another question is, since I will be hard up for aviation related bullet points, do I point out small things like a 15 year member of AOPA and things like that? Any wings credit received over the years, etc? Participation in any online aviation related groups (Vatsim)?

I will be applying to some part 135 operations soon.

Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks!

Sliceback

You’re coming from a non traditional pilot background so I’d mention the aviation affiliations you’ve had over the years.

The reality is they’re not going to care too much about your previous work history. They’ll be interested in how much flight time you have, in what aircraft, where did you get trained, etc. All the flying related stuff. With 500 hrs you’re after a CFI job to get started working towards 1500 hrs. At the regionals they’re still just going to check for a pulse and you’re flying stuff. Get at least 2000, but more likely 3000, 4000, or 5000 hrs if not more, which will be 5-8 yrs from now, and your flying resume will finally be more recent and relevant to other flying resumes.