Flightsoffusion

Anyone know of an alternative to Aviationinterviews.com? Years of paying $40 a month was one thing but not $100
Please, no "what is your career worth" statements. I only have 3 more years to be in 121 anyway. I get, it's the defacto of gouge but maybe it's time for an alternative after 35 plus years.

Thanks..

Peabody17

Maybe I’m doing it wrong, but I subscribed to AI twice during my career. Both for about 1-2 months when I was scheduled for the interview I was hoping for. Then I discontinued it. You’re saying it’s not worth that kind of investment? No way would I pay for it year after year after year…

JohnBurke

I have done the exact same thing, and the service provided exactly what I was looking for. I've directed a lot of people there, with the same results.

That said, I can see why someone might want to maintain an ongoing subscription (say, a year at a time) or an autopay. Even someone who has a "pinnacle of the industry" job with a company that "is the industry" such as the mighty legacies...because stuff happens. Furloughs, economic downturns. Stuff.

If one is working in this industry long enough, one will experience or see such events; shutdowns, mergers, closures, bankruptcies, etc, and one may end up looking for work. When one finds one's self in need, that is not the time to begin looking. That's the time to have already been looking. I've had some very good jobs in my career (and some not-so-greats); a habit I developed, which I believe is worthwhile, is to never stop watching the job market, and to keep applying, looking, checking, etc.

Even if one is employed, it may be worth subscribing to a few services such as job listings, interview reports, etc.

(No, I don't work for them, and no, I get nothing form them for my opinion).

What I do really tire of are those who are too cheap or too lazy to subscribe, who come on here and places like here, asking "what's on the orange site?" "What's on planejobs.com?" etc. It doesn't take that much time or money to subscribe and watch the listings, and some, like JSFirm, are free.

Flightsoffusion

And I don't have a problem subscribing to get the gauge, as I had previously alluded to doing in the past. What I do have a problem is, last month I bought in at $40 to get the gauge which, most of it being lists of identical info, deciphering it canceling in a couple of days. The next month I was looking for info on an additional operator, now it's $100 to sign up again. Why the 100+% markup from the month prior? Is the gauge we provide them incidentally, for free, costing that much more to copy and repost to the sight? I administrate multiple enterprise websites and have never seen that large of an increase in one month to operate.

But, irrelevant to my opinion or others regarding using interviews.com, my original question was whether there were alternative places to acquire gouge.

JohnBurke

Are you looking for work inside of 121, or out? For a long time, I didn't get charged at Aviation Interviews. I believe i'd particpated there before they put in a price structure, and got grandfathered, and when I logged in, I could look at anything on the site. The price has continued to escalate.

That said, those who are looking for information find quite a bit in one place, and very commonly these days, I hear people with multiple interviews stacked up, one after the other.

This site (airline pilot central) offered to do such a thing, and invited people to submit information. In nine months, a total of ten interview posts have been submitted, at the time of the greatest hiring balloon in aviation history. Of those 10 posts, only five contain any interview information, and most of it is vague, short, and contains little to no information about the process that might help someone prepare, and is mostly dated, several months to several years old.

Free is great, but we often get what we pay for. For those who have multiple interviews, a hundred bucks to cover the interview gouge for the lot isn't much. I've spent several thousand on a single interview in the past, from a new suit to airfare to some prep, and frankly, twenty bucks would be a drop in the bucket.

Flightsoffusion

You're absolutely correct. $20 would be a drop in the bucket. Even the most recent $40 was fine. Just curious why the one-month jump to $100? Especially since none of the info is ever parsed to give fresh details and most of it is just contributors saying, "yes, the site is accurate to what others are saying or Good info" With such a lack of change in how the interviews are being conducted of the recent years, it seems difficult to understand the sudden dramatic increase in cost..

Not here to beat a dead horse. Was just curious if there were other options, and your justification that APC attempted to do so resulting in nil results explains it well.

Appreciate it..

JohnBurke

Dunno. I suspect that like all things, if one wishes to know the answer, look to the money. Big hiring bubble, lots of movement, money to be had, so simple economics. Big demand, jack up the rates. Perhaps they'll come down when the demand dies.

The saving grace of the hiring fenzy is that one doesn't necessarily need to go to the lengths of preparation that were done in the past. One need only have a pulse.

dckozak

In the not too distant future, my son will be interviewing and I will strongly advise he use all the resources available that help give him a leg up. His grandfather, 40 odd years ago had no aviation experience to share nor did he provide his son with much guidance on how to interview, beyond the dress well and make sure your shoes are polished. More or any relevant advice might have saved his son from interviewing as many times as he did and got him on his way a few years earlier. Looking at the information available and deciphering what others do/did/will do helps to understand what you need to bring to the game, preparation, planning, even mind set that many young people don't know because they haven't had to seriously put themselves before a formalized interview where the chance of failure are high and the reward for success is potentially life changing.

Giving a pulse is easy compared to sharing a story about an event you learned from or would have wished to never have experienced or put yourself into.