Are these worth while? Is it true that SKW and other regionals hire with lower mins at these things?

 

Hmm is this true?!?!? Is there a central location where airlines post upcoming career fairs??

 

Not a central place, but generally, they are discussed on this board. There are several Eagle fairs in June/July. An Air-Inc fair in Sept, IIRC. An aviationinterviews.com fair in July in ORD.

If you are not having luck after a month of resumes out and your meet mins, these fairs are golden. Many airlines are interviewing on the spot and you often get to bypass the dreaded sim ride. I was interviewed and hired by RAH at the last Air-Inc fair in ATL. While I strongly disliked spending the $160 to go to the fair(plus airfare), it was worth my money in the end. The people there are the same people who are looking at your resumes online. There is tremendous value to putting that human contact to a name. You making the effort to travel to them shows your interest. Its a much more efficient process then the send and pray internet technique and you will be able to gauge their level of interest in you. The forum where they present their plans for the next few years is also very interesting as well. Good luck in your job search!

 

OK for example. AE is having a job fair the next three weekends. Their mins are 800/100. If I am not even close to it should I bother going? I mean I'm 260/75 short. Should I try them?

 

This is the understanding I have,you need to be pretty close to the time they are looking for.A little low on the time depending on the need of the airline they will work with you. hope this helps

 

Eagle is known to hold pretty fast to their mins. I hear they may budge on total time, but not multi. In your case, I wouldn't waste my time going to their solo fair. I would go to the aviationinterviews one where most if not all of them should be. If Eagle is there, talk to them and network, but don't expect an interview.

 

If it's close to home, go anyway. Get your face shown, meet the people. Bring a resume, wear a suit, shine your shoes.

 

I owe my Job to flying clear across the country (3000 miles) to a Job Fair...if you have the means to do it, it's worth every second.

 

Apply with Piedmont. They are asking 300/50. You will get the job. Fly some hours after training, build time, collect the $2500 bonus during training, which will offset you cost of getting on with them. Then once you have 100 or so hours in the Dash go back to Eagle and they will love you with that 121 time under your belt.
Good luck

 

As far as I know, SKYW does not lower minimums for people who attend these, but I've only been to one. I came in 13 hours short of the 100 ME required...I was the first one they called back and not three minutes later I was out the door. By the sound of it though, that is the "preferred" method of lining up interviews for them. I asked the recruiter if there was a number or a person to call once I accrued the required time, and he said I would just have to go to another career fair. I was a little let down because I felt like I hadn't accomplished a single thing by going to the career fair, but it wasn't that big of a deal since it was so close. If I had flown across the country to attend it, that would have been a different story.