Climbto350.com???Anyone?

[jdubya]

Has anyone here had any success with climbto350.com? Recomend it, worth it, worthless???

Thanks,
jdubya

 

[jobear]

Yes it works but you do have to seperate the wheat from the chaff a little

 

[1973Arrow]

I had a membership for a year and I let it expire. Like Jobear pointed out there was a ton of crap. "Come pay us $XX,XXX to fly our Metro," or the "Hiring first officers for $19,500." It was a bit discouraging. I did sorta get one instructor job off of there. Sorta as in I already knew the guy but just didn't realize he was looking for CFIs.

 

[PunchTheClown]

I had a membership to it aswell. I would say stay away from those sites in general. Unless its a entry level job, most of those jobs are garbage. They want you to be already rated, etc. . . . what I'm getting at is they are mostly posting by cheap bastards that want nothing more then a warm body to fill a seat. No matter what the type of aircraft it is make sure you STAY AWAY from those.

 

[1flier]

Climbto350 is worth it

I know if you dont have to pay it would be better, however I will say I got my first 135 job by climbto350, my 2nd one after that from it and the current job I have now, to give you an idea, the first jobs was VFR 135, second single pilot IFR and third single pilot multi IFR. They proabably have the most up to date postings where as planejobs and aviationcareer I believe take them from other sources to where I have seen advertisments for jobs that say they will not accept resumes submitted through planejobs. Its $49 for a year and I will say it pays off if you just get that one halfway decent job there. Also, I used it to recruit my replacement at the 135 VFR gig since it was a single pilot operator. I have gotten phonecalls and interviews for posiitons where I either submitted my resume or they pulled it off climbto350. If you have any questions PM me,

 

[BGSM]

I got my first 135 job from them and a two interviews for turbine stuff. You never know if you don't apply

 

[jdubya]

Thanks for the reply guys. I appreciate your input.

J.

 

[Kingair1181]

Got my 1st and 2nd job through them but you have to weed out a lot of junk on there - plus, you really need to make yourself stand out when you send anything into a company from off there.

 

[deskjobssuck]

Kingair1181, you just hit the nail on the head. If you guys want a word of advice, I'm happy to give it.

First of all, only send the resume to the address/contact they give you. I hate everyone in the office complaining to me becasue they are receiving random emails or faxes. Also, for me, it shows an inablility to follow instructions and knocks you down a few pegs before I even read your resume.

Second, a quick introduction note is always nice. However, two-page long cover letters of everything you've ever done in and/or thought about aviation are too time consuming for me to read. Besides, isn't that what the resume is for?

Finally, use spell check, it's really easy. Did I mention to use spell check?

This is no endorsement, but I do post on climbto350 when I'm out of in-house referrals. I do also browse through resumes from time to time. If you want to stand out from the crowd, follow the instructions, write a nice, concise note of introduction, have someone else look over your resume and then run spell check.

Good luck.

 

[Unleaded]

Regarding PlaneJobs

I highly suspect that many of the jobs on PlaneJobs.com are (allegedly)phoney, especially when you see the reply to e-mail address is yahoo or hotmail. The legitimate positions have (allegedly) been cut/pasted from free sites, so why pay?

Climbto350 is a reputable site compared to many others.

 

[C-5 MEM]

I have had Climbto350.com for over a year. I get good contacts from that site.

 

[Smooth1]

I have found two jobs and and had several calls on positions from climbto350.com. Several of which I turned down but it was nice to be getting calls and interview offers. If you are going to do a pay site I would consider climbto350, if anything it is the lesser of the evil "paysites".

 

[acpilot]

I got my job thanks to climbto350.com

 

[skydan]

Strange!

Got my last two jobs from Planejobs.com. never got anything from 350.

Wow! must be you have to know where the jobs are and be qualified!!

Imagine that! It has nothing to do with the job site.

 

[Unleaded]

Got my last two jobs from Planejobs.com. never got anything from 350.

Wow! must be you have to know where the jobs are and be qualified!!

Imagine that! It has nothing to do with the job site.

SKYDAN OWNS PLANEJOBS.COM WHAT A SHILL! LOOK AT HIS PROFILE - IN HIS DREAMS.

 

[Freightdog99]

I have hired at least four or five guys in the past two years through posting jobs on climbto350.com. I will agree 100% with everything that deskjobssuck says. Good luck to you.

 

[pkunzip66]

I had a membership to Planejobs about 6 months ago and there were a lot of low time jobs but I really think they were bogus. Everytime I applied for one either they never replied or the address came back as undeliverable. Right now I am using Climb350...not as desperate right now for low time jobs but mainly picky on locations.

 

[Vspeeds]

Not gonna renew my membership.

Importantly, don't care for the overseas jobs advertisments.

 

[Unleaded]

I had a membership to Planejobs about 6 months ago and there were a lot of low time jobs but I really think they were bogus. Everytime I applied for one either they never replied or the address came back as undeliverable. Right now I am using Climb350...not as desperate right now for low time jobs but mainly picky on locations.

I agree that most, if not all, of the jobs posted on planejobs.com are bogus. Climbto350 is the best site around. "SkyDan" is the owner of planejobs.com, so certainly don't believe anything he says.

 

[BGSkyGuy]

I had a membership to Planejobs about 6 months ago and there were a lot of low time jobs but I really think they were bogus. Everytime I applied for one either they never replied or the address came back as undeliverable. Right now I am using Climb350...not as desperate right now for low time jobs but mainly picky on locations.

I agree that alot of the free sites have fake jobs but check out this piece of work from 350.......

[FONT=arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif]October 19, 2006[/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif]HOG AIR (Part Time Cessna 414 Corporate Pilot - Green Bay, WI)[/FONT]
Duties will include being available 24 hrs. a day 7 days a week. This is a temporary position 3-4 months of flying. Keeping the aircraft clean, interior and exterior, waxing, shampooing the carpet, updating the GPS.