That's what I was talking about. Most interviews will go over your app and DL does too. They will very likely ask you about 13 years of college. It obviously wasn't because you weren't smart and it just took you that long. You were working and metering your schedule for money and time etc. A good interview prep company will help you smash that question when its asked and it will be.

Not sure how much value there is in resume review since its all app based anyway. Maybe for job fares I guess. The app review may be worth it though.

 

Someone recently posted the 2014 average flight times for new hires. Its pretty high. Yes there are a few 2000 hour (civilian) wonders here or there and most of the mil pilots have fewer hours but I think the average was around 8 or 9K if I recall.

 

Here are the 2014 numbers with hours and ages.

 

Where are you getting this information? Sure, we'd all agree the former may not be preferable over the latter. But from what I THINK I've learned about Delta's app scoring (which determines to some degree the timing of an invite or complete lack of one), it ABSOLUTELY favors an on-time graduation over a delayed one. If you know otherwise, correct me. But false hopes don't do anyone any good...how to get an interview is a completely different matter than how to pass one.

 

For civilian demographic, the other pic outlines it a little clearer.

 

The dry points only system does favor 4 year graduates to some degree because points are blind and that's what it measures. But they can also see if you worked your way through or not and will ask all about it in an interview. Its just points, and its not the end all factor. Plenty of CJO's have gone to people with several "red flags" or lower point value aspects of their app. A lower app score doesn't mean it won't result in an interview.

They ask precisely about this in the interview. 100%. Its not a deal breaker. Same for tickets. Yes tickets are a negative. But tons of pilots get hired with tickets, many with multipile and recent tickets. The point system doesn't mean one negative and you're buried in tier 4.

Daddy's boy at the party school getting a degree in trust fund science in 4 years may go ahead of the 5 year work your way through full time 2 job holding self starter in the points system, but will lose points where it counts in the interview. PLENTY of pilots are getting hired right now that took longer than 4 years as well as many other "red flags" and if their total app has plusses that overcome the minuses they will get interviews and CJO's over many, many, many 4 year on the dot degrees.

 

Roger. Just so we're factually correct then...for the purpose of getting an interview ASAP, the 4 year degree completion "on Daddy's dime" IS better than working through college and finishing in 5, all else being equal. That's opposite from what you originally posted.

 

I was in college for five years, because that was the required time for the degree. That's held against me?

Mechanical/Electrical Engineering dual major. No way to get required credits in under 9 semesters. Scheduled time was ten

 

Only if everything else is 100% equal with no exception. Quite often "daddy's dime party school" candidates lag behind total app scores anyway. Quite often. And they can see from the app when its MANUALLY SCORED if you were working/serving concurrently while going to school. Very few apps come down to one single point or issue like that. Very, very few.

 

Sadly, the human eye balls on the app are unable to discern how much one ACTUALLY worked in college that may have caused a longer than normal completion.

Only at a F2F job fair contact, etc will one get to explain that. And naturally at an interview. But as mentioned, there had to be OTHER "pluses" that overcame that IN THE FIRST PLACE.