asa job posting -- confused?

[hotwing]

Hey, I am really confused about this one -- this just came out today. I was told last week that they were not going to interview this year!!! Now, look at this!

First Officers
Job ID#: 1264861

Atlantic Southeast Airlines
Company Information
Date: January 19,2003
Contact Name: Pilot Recruiting - Capt. Loretta Boyd
Address: 100 Hartsfield Centre Parkway
City: Atlanta
State: GA
Zip: 30354

Country: USA
Telephone: 404-766-1400
Fax: 404-209-0452
E-mail: [email protected]
Job Information

Please press "Send This Company Your Enrollment Form" button only once.
If your personal resume is attached it will be sent also.
Allow sufficient time to Send information.

For prompt consideration be sure to mention that you are an AEPS member.
We are accepting Resumes. Hiring 18 in Feb. Fax resumes to Pilot Recruitment (404) 763-8397 or e-mail to [email protected]. We are receiving 56 CRJ700s thru 2004

 

[AFELLOWAVIATOR]

That is a little strange. DCI has 54 700's on order, and Comair is getting around half of them. Is this a company you pay money too?
I would be a little suspicious.

 

[hotwing]

Yes -- this is AEPS -- large agaency that holds most of the career fairs around the nation. It is interesting. The last time that I spoke to pilot rec., I was told that no new hires this year due the replacement of 120 with jets and that they would be training those guys... Now, today, this comes out from AEPS -- ?????

 

[Data]

It's stale news, Loretta Boyd isn't in recruitment any more, Julie Ellis is back in there. It's just a job posting to attract attention to AEPS' job postings site.

 

[Bill Nelson]

These guys are morons. They rarely have accurate information. They just want you to send them money. Who needs an application service when no one is hiring? (Those that are hiring now don't use AEPs anyway.) It is a load of dung. Save your money.

 

[hotwing]

ok - so what is the answer -- are they hiring or not? We all know what they are, but that is not what I was curious about... what is going on with their hiring? are they hring or not?

 

[WrightAvia]

Here is another one for you...

http://www.aviationcareer.net/hr/hr_05212001_01.cfm

She's not much to look at, but at least she's got a job to keep her busy.

What's ironic about this article is that it's still available at their site and they are definitely advertising career building materials for SALE. Spose If I buy something from them I'll get an interview at jet blue?

 

[Medeco]

ok - so what is the answer -- are they hiring or not? We all know what they are, but that is not what I was curious about... what is going on with their hiring? are they hring or not?

Plain and simple: NO

For now!

Things will change, I'd bet in Vegas on it.

 

[ifly4food]

These guys are morons. They rarely have accurate information. They just want you to send them money. Who needs an application service when no one is hiring? (Those that are hiring now don't use AEPs anyway.) It is a load of dung. Save your money.

Agreed. ASA has no plans to hire in the forseeable future. We have a large pool and the poolies are being told not to expect word until late Fall '03.
AEPS is probably using this to boost applications sice they make money from doing such. IMO, it's a scam since ASA mostly hires directly anyhow, instead of going through AEPS. At ASA we get enough resumes directly not to have to use such services.
Save your money. It's bogus.

 

[captainv]

AEPS

I tried AEPS for about a month before cancelling it. I recall getting a few posts for jobs, mostly for G-V or Global Express captains. fabulously useful when you're flying a Lear 25. I heard a rumour a while back that they'd gone bankrupt. Only reference I can find for it now is on Air Inc.'s site...

http://www.jet-jobs.com/ABOUT AIR INC/memberinfo/aeps_docs/aeps1.html

 

[sleepy]

So is UPAS still in business?

 

[WrightAvia]

AEPS found my job for FREE/ask me how!

Here is one for ya...about two and half years ago...before 9/11 I had an unlucky bout of wash out at a commuter. No biggie it gave me an opportunity to check out the 121 small guys and see how I'd like it. But anyway, as I'm coming back from Europe, where they did the sim training, knowing I was "probably" going to have to look for work...I wasn't too worried as the job market was excellent.

So I hit the ground running while still getting paid by the commuter. They were waiting to see if they/I wanted to get some extra sim/training time. But I was able to sort through quite a few jobs, turned down a few offers and even called up and cancelled a few interviews the morning of, just for being finicky. Well I see this ad for AEPS's ten day free trial. Sign up and start entering data fields for their on line resume. I never accessed any of the job boards there, as my data fields for the resume were never completely filled in. As time goes on, the 10 day free trial period expires and I forget about AEPS. I was also still recieving 335 bucks a week* from my 135 ex-employer in the form of state unemployment checks while looking for work, when all the sudden the phone rings. I got two offers in the works and my phone rings and it's some place I never heard of before! They saw my resume on AEPS, described the position, the hours, the pay, the plane, the run. I chose this job and couldn't interview fast enough for it. I have had the job going on two years now and have thought about staying on seeing how the job market has changed and how much I like my job.


*after getting about a month of pay from the commuter while exiting employment there, I was able to recieve 335 bucks a week for up to 6 months from my 135 employer that I worked at prior to going to work for this commuter (I only needed 3 months). Aint that a peach! In wisconsin if you quit a job to take a better job, or one that is closer to your trained career field, or one that is closer to where you live....etc...then you get classified as a "quit to take" and if the job you take ends, through no fault of your own...you get the max unemployment benefit allowed by state law...which was for me 335 a week. MORE than my take home at the commuter. So I dint have to go crawling back to them after this commuter thing. That commuter has since laid off at least up to what my seniority number would have anyway and it looks like the labor woes and the post 9/11 aviation economy would have caught up to me, should I have stayed there anyway. I wonder how many low time guys that washed out at commuters were ever able to get unemployement in the case of a wash out, or even thought of it?

Good luck to all out there looking for work... and AEPS...I love you man!