certificate choice
 

If you get an interview with Republic, be careful with requesting a certain certificate...
When I asked for the CHQ cert, laser beams shot out of the HR interviewer's eyes and the tone of interview changed. I guess if you want a job, you better not have any personal preferences!
Also, If you have any knowledge over and above a regular pilot, keep that in your back pocket. I have been working on jets for 20 years and one of the interviewers asked me if I thought this could be a problem in the cockpit having more technical knowledge than the the captain. I was a little mystified with that question.
Anyway, I did not get offered a job so maybe this experience could help one of you.

well what did you say? that actually is a really good question!

How long from interview to class date now? Also, how long is training? I thought it used to be posted on their site as 8 wks, but can't find it now.

2 weeks to 2 months from interview to class... just depends... training is variable depending on IOE..... but 8 weeks is good guess.... 10 if they have scheduling problems or lots of cnx during ioe.....

I interviewed 2/18, class date 3/25. One of the other guys who interviewed with me got moved into the 2/28 class, but he was already available when he interviewed.

A colleague of mine said in the interview that he would only accept a position on the Republic certificate and not Shuttle or CHQ. He also said the tone of the interview changed dramatically. He said he was interested in one particular base and that base only. He was offered a position on the Republic certificate.

I believe I said that I was interested in the Republic certificate due to bases, but that'd I'd be open to the other certificates, and I was not offered a position.

Aren't all the ERJ supposed to go away at CHQ?

Are you in the Republic or Shuttle 3/25 class? Myself and at least a couple other ex-Skywayers will be down in STL for the S5 class.

what worked for me was stressing in the interview that i would love a job on whatever certificate and whatever base, but i would really love to be based XXX because i/parents/girlfriend/high school shop teacher live there.

got me IND, and the S5 cert.

Uh...no. The 24 CRJ's are leaving by 2010...you may be thinking of that.