Women in aviation Conference 2014
#23
God bless America.
#24
Just go to the event
Atlas will be at both WAI in Orlando March 6-8, and at the OBAP event March 20 in Las Vegas.
#25
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Just curious for the men who attend: are you actually supporting and a proponent for women in aviation or are you just using them to get face time/interview at a major? Sounds like a slap in the face for WIA if a man uses them only to get face time/interview at a legacy and then never go to another WIA event again.
WIA organizing a job conference is absolutely fair game and what they should be doing. And yes anyone can and should participate.
And yes I am fully aware of the irony of what a firestorm a Men In Aviation and all other equivalents would bring, but that takes nothing away from trying to get demographics to take a look at professions they for whatever reason aren't as actively pursuing.
Go, support the effort and be a part of it. The more men that go the more we will all start to remove arbitrary preferences from the equation and start to view one another as equals.
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#27
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Originally Posted by The Juice View Post
Welcome to the real world.
Airlines DONT hire the most qualified pilots, this shouldn't be a shocker to you or anyone. The entire process is a game and laughable at time. Why not use the flawed system to your advantage?
Exactly. This is the reason Caucasian pilots should go to OBAP as well. AS, for one, always sends a team of CP/HR people to recruit at both WIA and OBAP.
Originally Posted by The Juice View Post
Welcome to the real world.
Airlines DONT hire the most qualified pilots, this shouldn't be a shocker to you or anyone. The entire process is a game and laughable at time. Why not use the flawed system to your advantage?
Exactly. This is the reason Caucasian pilots should go to OBAP as well. AS, for one, always sends a team of CP/HR people to recruit at both WIA and OBAP.
Imagine for a moment that not a single Delta pilot made a recommendation for a newhire pilot candidate. Delta management would not know who to call and would therefore be forced to start calling the most qualified. When the predominant system is based on recommendations, you get calls for the most connected, not the most qualified. So if your complaint in aviation is we aren't hiring the most qualified pilots, then the fix is to stop recommending pilots to management. Let them pick the best of the best.
#28
I went to the conference last year and I'm convinced that is why I received my Delta invite. I had one LOR for Delta, 2100 hours mostly F/A-18 and zero other connections to Delta period and thankfully was in the initial batch of interview invites that went out. Or, my invite was just the luck of the draw.
My advice is to loiter around, start conversations with the people around you, and network, network, network. If you're military, there's typically a flight suit social at one of the convention bars that I ended up at last year and it was packed with great people. I was wearing a suit but managed to strike up a conversation with a couple of the pilots (T-34 instructors) and they invited me to join their gathering. You may not make the connection that gets you an interview, but you're sure to have a good time nonetheless. They all know why you're there, they all have been in our shoes and they all respect the effort that prospective new-hires are putting in and some want to help in anyway they can.
In the end, attending the conference got me fired up and excited for the years ahead. Totally worth it. Granted my squadron gave me the keys to an F/A-18 with a student to get some cross country training along the way which eased the pain of getting to and from Nashville.
My advice is to loiter around, start conversations with the people around you, and network, network, network. If you're military, there's typically a flight suit social at one of the convention bars that I ended up at last year and it was packed with great people. I was wearing a suit but managed to strike up a conversation with a couple of the pilots (T-34 instructors) and they invited me to join their gathering. You may not make the connection that gets you an interview, but you're sure to have a good time nonetheless. They all know why you're there, they all have been in our shoes and they all respect the effort that prospective new-hires are putting in and some want to help in anyway they can.
In the end, attending the conference got me fired up and excited for the years ahead. Totally worth it. Granted my squadron gave me the keys to an F/A-18 with a student to get some cross country training along the way which eased the pain of getting to and from Nashville.
#29
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Last year, they made it clear men were very welcome. Took our money. And then grabbed all the women out of the long lines for the job fair and put them ahead of all the men. It was incredibly unclassy, IMO. The irony was comical. I only saw one woman refuse to jump the queue like that. I'd hire her.
#30
When the predominant system is based on recommendations, you get calls for the most connected, not the most qualified. So if your complaint in aviation is we aren't hiring the most qualified pilots, then the fix is to stop recommending pilots to management. Let them pick the best of the best.
When you ask a plumber a car salesman how much experience he has, the standard reply is usually their age minus 15 or 20. So the average 55 year old plumber has 35 to 40 years of experience. With that much experience, you can only assume that a plumber who is 55 has to be superior to a plumber who is 35 who only has 15 to 20 years experience. Right?
In fact, I just had work done to my house that was done by a carpenter with many years of experience. Thankfully I rent, because ON PAPER, this guy had a boat load of experience but his work was terrible. His personality was even worse.
On paper, it is difficult to get a realistic impression on the quality of a pilot based solely on his numbers. And then there's the whole personality thing to consider.
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