Sit Down Interview
 

Would anyone be aware how to set up an appointment for a meet & greet with the IAH assistant or chief pilot? I want to make sure that United would be a great opportunity for me if I can get the phone call. Thanks everyone.

These are coordinated via current pilots.

So you basically want to sit down with someone so they can convince you that you should come to work here?

Any idea how a current pilot would set one of these M&G's up for a good candidate? Is there any benefit to face to face with a CP for getting a guy an interview?

A recent FOU addresses this.

The United pilot walks into the cp office or emails him and asks to set up a meet and greet for someone. Usually attaches a resume do the cp to look at and decide if it's worth his time. They are much harder to come by these days. And if you get the CP rec, its pretty safe to assume you'll have an interview within 2 months. I've heard any chief pilot is only allowed to submit 24 recs in a year. So that's less than 250 cp recs handed out per year, company wide.

Thanks, but you sound.......over qualified.

There are a lot of red flags between this post and your other posts. One word of caution is to be more discreet online. You are putting out personal details and it wouldn't be difficult for a future interviewer or someone who screens apps to piece it together. It is a very small world.

As for the question, the chief pilot meet and greets are internally set up through someone who already works for the company. If you want to learn about the company I would highly suggest you start networking, go to a career fair, and read some of these forums well before trying to impress a chief. It will give you insight into the structure of the application process and will allow you to avoid the pitfalls that snag so many people. If you sit in the CPO and are asking them unresearched questions it won't go well and will be useless as the average line pilot will have a better grasp on the day to day life at United.

In another post you said you didn't have any letters of recommendation and in the next breath you were wondering why you can't get a call. The average interviewed candidate has over 8 internals and at most recruiting events they will explain why it is important. They do not have to be internal but should be someone that can speak to your character. They do not expire and you can form a collection over time. As you get more internal you can delete the weaker outside letters.

I just recently spoke with a flight operations supervisor about this. You are correct in the process of how a current pilot can set up a meeting with a CP or flight ops supervisor. However there are two different types of recommendations. If they get a resume that really impresses them and the meet the person and have the same feeling. They can give them some sort of special rec, which is the ones that are limited to 24/year. However they can meet with an unlimited number of candidates and if they don't quite have the same "wow" factor they can still put in an internal recommendation on airline apps. It of course doesn't carry the same weight as the limited ones but it can't hurt.

Nope.................................Got a guy a CP meet and greet. The guy got the recommendation from the CP. That was 8 months ago. He's never heard a word back. Talked to the CP he said he had no idea what was going on.

You're right and first, thank you for the honest response. I will take all of it to heart and start working on it. Thank you again.

Hoss, my meet and greet was 2 years before I got the call. Never heard a peep from UAL before the Hogan invite. The CP M&G process was changed late last year, but I'm not sure exactly when. Did your guy one of the old regular air apps recommendations, or one of the new limited edition super duper recs?