LocalProPilots

Hello All
Last week I contact a Part 135 Operator to respond to their Help wanted posting in one of the Pilot Help Wanted Websites.....

Their response was polite but....... Who said we are hiring???!!!
SO I emailed the website a stated my concern for their "error"... they wanted to know who I was talking about...I didn't respond.... I caught them in "One Mistake"...how many other "mistakes"...have they made recently?
So then Very recently the web site went "Down for MX... and they were down for over two days..... :cleaning house? Maybe.

And ANOTHER Pilot Job website....
VERY VERY nicely built......
not a LOT of Pilot specific jobs but some....
SO I've been filling out app after app....
today I discovered 7 "undeliverable" messages in my back office....
from the big airlines.....as in..... bogus

And I also received a very polite email from HR from a different company saying that they did not advertise through this system and that they requested I send them my info via.....xxx...... because the above pilot web site format was too much work for them.... OK I have a lead..... BUT !!! NON-Legit !!!
I sent a nasty gram to this Pilot Job Company as well. I told them they had three days to explain or I was going to start pasting the "Undeliverable" emails I've gotten......

Film at 11

I do NOT want to get this web site in the middle of a problem so I will ONLY paste the copied emails and ONLY FACTS...no commentary.

USMCFLYR

Right after I graduated I paid one of those job finding outfits from the back of 'Flying' magazine some money to send me a list of companies and points of contact for the HR department and/or Chief Pilot.
I'd say I sent out over 150 resumes and upwards of 75% of them were returned as 'Undeliverable' (this was during the snail mail days).
I'm sure the internet has allowed those irreputable sites to flourish.

USMCFLYR

LocalProPilots

After waiting a week I rcvd a response saying that I was welcome to call to discuss.

I learned long ago that if you wont put it in writing you wont stand behind it.

I responded with "Please explain xxx"
No response.
before you spend money on any of the Aviation Job type web sites p.m. me and I will copy to you the facts.
I subscribed to 3 sites . One is busy with a mix of Pilot and other aviation jobs...(No job yet) , one has a lot of job postings, a few pilot jobs in countries on the other side of the Milky Way, but very rarely jobs in the US other than Blackwater. The Third company has been dribbling out one or two jobs per week.

With or without a job offer only one is worth the money.

HSLD

You had a bad experience with a web site, but you're not going to share which site it was you think is a scam?

Naming the site would be helpful for others to avoid making the same mistake, otherwise it just comes across as whining.

ToiletDuck

Sounds like he was worried about getting APC caught in the middle.

HSLD

While I appreciate the concern, why post it at all?

If a user wants to document a consumer experience, we have no problem with that.

LocalProPilots

Here's the deal
I don't want to be tied to a nasty situation.

anybody who is willing to state in writing that they will NOT tie me to the source of the info....

send me a P.M....and I will respond.