Delta Hiring News
#71
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Joined APC: Sep 2006
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No one cares if they use delta.com email account or not. It looks better if they do and there is a push to be more professional, but it is not essential.
A lot of people are under impression that only Delta pilots can recommend candidates and only LOR's from Delta pilots will be considered. Not true at all. The recruiters will consider any recommendations, from anyone.
The important thing is that people you ask for the LOR know you very well. If they don't they should not recommend and if the recruiters feel they don't - the LOR will be disregarded.
Everyone was asking, but the BOD didn't approve pilot hiring budget for 2013. Delta has a lot of company patriots who will volunteer if need be so expect Delta team at pilot job fairs starting this fall.
Limited selection from airlineapps is already underway; fyi - nothing turns recruiters off more then a sloppy application.
Interviewing should start in October/November 2013.
Expect first class in the beginning of January 2014.
Expect a break for the summer with more or less continuous hiring starting in the fall 2014.
#72
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Joined APC: Apr 2013
Position: Retired AF/A320 FO
Posts: 326
From a very internal source:
No one cares if they use delta.com email account or not. It looks better if they do and there is a push to be more professional, but it is not essential.
A lot of people are under impression that only Delta pilots can recommend candidates and only LOR's from Delta pilots will be considered. Not true at all. The recruiters will consider any recommendations, from anyone.
The important thing is that people you ask for the LOR know you very well. If they don't they should not recommend and if the recruiters feel they don't - the LOR will be disregarded.
Everyone was asking, but the BOD didn't approve pilot hiring budget for 2013. Delta has a lot of company patriots who will volunteer if need be so expect Delta team at pilot job fairs starting this fall.
Limited selection from airlineapps is already underway; fyi - nothing turns recruiters off more then a sloppy application.
Interviewing should start in October/November 2013.
Expect first class in the beginning of January 2014.
Expect a break for the summer with more or less continuous hiring starting in the fall 2014.
No one cares if they use delta.com email account or not. It looks better if they do and there is a push to be more professional, but it is not essential.
A lot of people are under impression that only Delta pilots can recommend candidates and only LOR's from Delta pilots will be considered. Not true at all. The recruiters will consider any recommendations, from anyone.
The important thing is that people you ask for the LOR know you very well. If they don't they should not recommend and if the recruiters feel they don't - the LOR will be disregarded.
Everyone was asking, but the BOD didn't approve pilot hiring budget for 2013. Delta has a lot of company patriots who will volunteer if need be so expect Delta team at pilot job fairs starting this fall.
Limited selection from airlineapps is already underway; fyi - nothing turns recruiters off more then a sloppy application.
Interviewing should start in October/November 2013.
Expect first class in the beginning of January 2014.
Expect a break for the summer with more or less continuous hiring starting in the fall 2014.
#73
Can't abide NAI
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Posts: 11,989
From a very internal source:
No one cares if they use delta.com email account or not. It looks better if they do and there is a push to be more professional, but it is not essential.
A lot of people are under impression that only Delta pilots can recommend candidates and only LOR's from Delta pilots will be considered. Not true at all. The recruiters will consider any recommendations, from anyone.
The important thing is that people you ask for the LOR know you very well. If they don't they should not recommend and if the recruiters feel they don't - the LOR will be disregarded.
Everyone was asking, but the BOD didn't approve pilot hiring budget for 2013. Delta has a lot of company patriots who will volunteer if need be so expect Delta team at pilot job fairs starting this fall.
Limited selection from airlineapps is already underway; fyi - nothing turns recruiters off more then a sloppy application.
Interviewing should start in October/November 2013.
Expect first class in the beginning of January 2014.
Expect a break for the summer with more or less continuous hiring starting in the fall 2014.
No one cares if they use delta.com email account or not. It looks better if they do and there is a push to be more professional, but it is not essential.
A lot of people are under impression that only Delta pilots can recommend candidates and only LOR's from Delta pilots will be considered. Not true at all. The recruiters will consider any recommendations, from anyone.
The important thing is that people you ask for the LOR know you very well. If they don't they should not recommend and if the recruiters feel they don't - the LOR will be disregarded.
Everyone was asking, but the BOD didn't approve pilot hiring budget for 2013. Delta has a lot of company patriots who will volunteer if need be so expect Delta team at pilot job fairs starting this fall.
Limited selection from airlineapps is already underway; fyi - nothing turns recruiters off more then a sloppy application.
Interviewing should start in October/November 2013.
Expect first class in the beginning of January 2014.
Expect a break for the summer with more or less continuous hiring starting in the fall 2014.
In 2007 Delta was using the internal email as a sorting preference. While they would consider all recs, the first hurdle was getting your application pulled out of a stack of ten thousand. That first filter made the internal address important. That may have changed by now.
#74
That's good intel.
In 2007 Delta was using the internal email as a sorting preference. While they would consider all recs, the first hurdle was getting your application pulled out of a stack of ten thousand. That first filter made the internal address important. That may have changed by now.
In 2007 Delta was using the internal email as a sorting preference. While they would consider all recs, the first hurdle was getting your application pulled out of a stack of ten thousand. That first filter made the internal address important. That may have changed by now.
They likely did account for in the furture nw/dl merger I would befriend newK. Thats probably why I got the call.
#75
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We were so impressionable then.
#77
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Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Posts: 11,989
Delta says they look at the whole package.
For (ahem) higher time pilots, it would help to show accomplishments in addition to flying the line.
Delta has got a huge pile of 45 to 55 year old First Officers. While Delta has never even hinted that they hire to distribute the retirement curve, common sense tells me Delta needs what it doesn't have, younger First Officers. That is just my guess.
#78
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Position: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Posts: 11,989
... and for you readers outside of our circle of friends (not that 80 claims me), the real secret is to balance out your qualifications just as his was. Young, sharp, line check airman that presents the image Delta wants to represent the airline.
Of course then Delta puts these terrific new hires on a Douglas jet, which makes them slightly crazy and disheveled. By the end of IOE everyone wonders; "what happened? He seemed like such a nice young man."
#79
Flight Ops would be irresponsible if they didn't pay some attention to those demographics when hiring. All other things being roughly equal, the younger applicant is going to have an edge this time around. Not for any reason of age discrimination but just because Delta has to smooth out the retirement curve in order to maintain continuity in the operation.
They can't have half the pilot group all retiring within a couple years of each other.
#80
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Joined APC: Nov 2009
Posts: 5,192
A team of scientists have tried to figure out how 80kts CLAMP pulled it off.
... and for you readers outside of our circle of friends (not that 80 claims me), the real secret is to balance out your qualifications just as his was. Young, sharp, line check airman that presents the image Delta wants to represent the airline.
Of course then Delta puts these terrific new hires on a Douglas jet, which makes them slightly crazy and disheveled. By the end of IOE everyone wonders; "what happened? He seemed like such a nice young man."
... and for you readers outside of our circle of friends (not that 80 claims me), the real secret is to balance out your qualifications just as his was. Young, sharp, line check airman that presents the image Delta wants to represent the airline.
Of course then Delta puts these terrific new hires on a Douglas jet, which makes them slightly crazy and disheveled. By the end of IOE everyone wonders; "what happened? He seemed like such a nice young man."
"Boeing builds jets, Douglas builds character."
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