Ohhh man!?!!??! hahaha

 

At my interview at SkyWest I felt that my enlisted experience was a huge plus.

 

I agree...I think it helped me on all my airline interviews (I was hired at each place I inteviewed). I made sure to list the relevant items from my enlistment for the job I was applying for...CRM skills...Door Gunner etc. HAHA! Have fun.

 

Double post - My bad

 

Let Ali G straighten this out for you...

YouTube - Ali G learns about Farms (Rubbish Zoos)

Word to your mother, vanilla face.

 

dojetdriver - this is a great list. I think I'll keep this post and use all those traits in my resume.

This was recently told to me as the number one quality they (a company) was looking for. Most applicants are highly motivated, have thousands of hours of experience, and are very equally matched based on what is on the resume. It was the personality that came across at the interview that was the tie breaker.

rickair7777 - It seems that many companies don't really care how much flight time you have as long as you meet the minimums. I mean other threads on the forum are rife with stories of people with crazy amounts of time not getting jobs while others who had to use conversions just to make the mins are getting hired. I've heard others say on here that once you get past a few milestones in the TT, PIC, and Turbine time that the number of hours doesn't really matter. Do you not agree with this?

USMCFLYR

 

I don't think with your experience you will have to list those traits. Just putting whats in your profile here will be enough to get the point across. Military ALWAYS has an advantage, especially with IP/evaluator experience. It's more like you said, the guy interviewing wants to know your personality.

Thats for the most part true. Maybe the FEW exceptions were when both FedEx and UPS had the heavy/overwater REQUIREMENT.

But yes, we all know somebody that got on at FX, UPS, SW, or what ever other desireable job with the bare minimums. Where they qualified? Sure, by that airlines definition based on their own stated minimums. Where they competitive? Probably not nearly as much as TONS of other guys in their applicant stack who sadly don't know anybody to help get their resume pushed to the top. What separated them? They had the in's to get noticed, then sold themselves in the interview.

There no pilot shortage, especially for the jobs everybody wants.

 

I absolutely agree that networking in one of the most important things in this line of work. I actually learned that very early on when I first started flying. I was flying check runs and ran across a guy who was less experienced than I (if that was possible at the time) and was flying right seat in a Turbo Commander. I remember asking him how he got that job and he said the boss played poker with his father. I thought to myself - man.....I don't know anybody! Thanks for the compliment btw. Let's hope the HR people think the same way when the day comes.

USMCFLYR

 

Retired Navy Senior Chief....Finished my BS with ERAU the year I retired (2002)...was a CFI,CFII,MEI for 2 years before that....hired by first regional I interviewed with even though the year prior to hire, I held an operations management role –vs.- flying full time. I am convinced that my military service was a key reason I was given an opportunity based on the questions asked during the interview........ GO Veterans!!!!!

 

I agree. Depends on the company, but once you meet their competetive (as opposed to min) times, additional time probably won't matter much unless the quality of the time is significant (ie military).

If you can stay out of trouble for 2000 hours 121 TPIC you probably have more than luck going for you...after that, the returns diminish.

You can definately be overqualified at a regional...if you have plenty of TPIC they might suspect you won't stick around. But I think most regionals would feel you out and give you a chance if you are looking for a home. I know plenty of ex-corporate turned regional pilots who came with thousands of hours.

Rumor has it that some majors don't like pilots who have many thousands of TPIC, and have not done a training event in years. Perhaps they consider them a training risk.

Also, word is that in 2007 a certain major had 8 out of 15 new hires bail during training for brown or purple...supposedly the hiring manager decided to hire only people who had upgraded but ot yet reached 1000 TPIC