DO is possible / UPS Help!!
I spent 12 years active duty, in the tanker (135), Also an IP, EP, and ADO. A guy who was considered a fast burner could have made DO. I got out to take care of sick family members. You could become DO if you were among the only majors or at a base people were trying hard to avoid. Like Grand Forks. It really is a matter of timing. I ended up as a leader (at McConnell )a matter of chance. So it can happen. How you do at it is up to you and what you learned along the way. I also have been applying at FDX and UPS. It took a 7 months of networking to get my first interview with Alaska. No luck, 3 months later came AirTran, and SWA. I have a job and start soon. I still want to work for either UPS/FDX.
Last week I got a call from UPS after having my resume in for only 3 weeks. I knew no one there but put a resume in because a friend of a friend of a friend suppossedly got hired without recs. Low and behold a call!!!.
FDX I have had a resume in with them for a year. No luck. That said, I networked and got three rec's ( I went to OBAP(a white member), Air Inc etc.) I focused on FDX because I knew 1 guy there. I had also heared of long wait time in the UPS training pool. UPS is hiring so don't alway believe the rumors. OBAP has great job fairs and really helped out.
Long / Short they are both great companies and I will consider myself lucky to wear either of their colors. My pointers are this. Be patient, put the time in, and realise no one owes you anything, you have to put your time in.
While you are waiting go Guard or Reserve (I have done both since leaing active duty). You can build your time and units are hiring junior Majors with your expirience.
Everyone else!!! Help
Anyone have any pointers for my UPS interview over the normal gouge?
Any good simulator prep in the Los Angeles area?