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Originally Posted by Karnak
I don't think they're that mysterious. If apps were evaluated purely by cumulative experience, they'd hire fewer military (lower total time, generally), and mostly 50+ year olds with think logbooks.
But they want diversity. Not necessarily gender, race, etc...but diversity of age and experience above the "competitive" numbers. The recently-retired head of the hiring program gave a description of the goal at a presentation last year. He said they wanted the best of the qualified applicants within each segment. He described each segment at some point, but I was caging cookies at the time. I think Active Military, Retired Military, Affiliated Regional, Other Major, were some of them. There was a powerpoint involved, and I know somebody on here was paying attention while I was distracted.
Chocolate Chip, BTW.
This is spot on and I’ve heard the old presentation. The first Delta job fair I went to was in 2010. I spoke with a Delta representative there who told me they were looking for “umbrella pilots” not just 10,000 hours with 5,000 TPIC etc...
He talked about lots of things like:
- Internships (this was huge to him for some reason)
- Type of degree and quality of schools attended
- GPA
- Saftey department work
- Professional Standards work
- Volunteer work
- Types of jobs held
- Awards and achievements
- CFI or LCA work
- Work in management
- Delta connection affiliate
- And of course pilot records and licenses
I had 3 internal recs and 2 external and he said those were perfect and that I didn’t need anymore. The most important thing he said was to be patient (so hard).
My worthless advice is to make yourself as well-rounded of a pilot as possible and emphasize that however you can.