not taking résumés, not hiring: why UPS @ job fair?
#81
Why would you want UPS to hire regional pilots? All our growth is going to be international and a newhire engineer will eventually be flying internationally. I'd rather have someone with experience in international ops vs. some regional pilot who hasn't flown anything bigger than a rj.
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#82
Honestly, I don't believe that he is trying to stir up trouble. With all of the growth in the international arena and with the rumor of only hiring 50 people this year, the competition is going to be stiff. It would only make sense that the most competitive candidates would and should come from an international heavy-jet background.
I have perused the regional board, and no offense to commuter pilots, but based on the vast majority of the posts that I read there is a serious lack of maturity among many of the pilots. The impression they give is that they are nothing but high-school punks who think that they are just "way to cool" because they are flying the RJ.
I have perused the regional board, and no offense to commuter pilots, but based on the vast majority of the posts that I read there is a serious lack of maturity among many of the pilots. The impression they give is that they are nothing but high-school punks who think that they are just "way to cool" because they are flying the RJ.
I take it that's what you had when you started....international, heavy jet, eh?
I know what you mean....I've flown with some knuckleheads that don't belong in a turboprop, let alone flying into Clark in the middle of the night in an MD-11, but don't bunch all of them into the same category. I've flown with and am friends with quite a few regional guys/gals that would do better flying international at UPS than some goofballs I have seen that already have "international experience".
#84
Why would you want UPS to hire regional pilots? All our growth is going to be international and a newhire engineer will eventually be flying internationally. I'd rather have someone with experience in international ops vs. some regional pilot who hasn't flown anything bigger than a rj.
Well if you can do it with a high school GPA of 1.7 and no college degree, I think the "RJ" guys should do just fine.
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#88
Then, "whachu talkin' 'bout Willis?"
Ok then, what kind of experience did you have to get into a DC-8?
It seems like when you started flying international you had less experience than the people that you are saying shouldn't have a shot now.
Ok then, what kind of experience did you have to get into a DC-8?
It seems like when you started flying international you had less experience than the people that you are saying shouldn't have a shot now.
#89
All jet time ain't equal.
#90
Since a UPS recruiters told the recent AirInc attendees that there probably won’t be any hiring in 2008, the only option would be junior guys, wouldn’t you say?
Does this mean no interviewing and/or no hiring out of the pool or both? I had heard a number of maybe 40-50 from the pool, just wondering.
Does this mean no interviewing and/or no hiring out of the pool or both? I had heard a number of maybe 40-50 from the pool, just wondering.
I've heard that the "50 pilots in 2008" as a predominant theme around the campus. However, in talking with a newhire that just went through the school house there has been rumblings that scenarios with greater than 50 pilots hired this year are being looked at. I'm not really sure how deep our pilot pool is. An educated guess would be somewhere in the vicinity of 50, but again that's just a guess based on matching the number of potential newhires with the number in the pool.
I have recurrent in two weeks, I'll try to ask around while at the Mothership.
Regards,
FF
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