CHQ Interveiw

[relief tube]

fellas,

Badgers just trying to help, so that's cool, but careful about thinking much about that advice. I've had buddies walk it in/write recommendations three times the past 6 months, and so far, no avail. 19 months in the pool for me so far, and it's taught me that this company is more about having ya work for it, less on finding someway in the back door. You're gonna have to earn it, not find someway to sneak in. Wish I had better news.

 

[Be200pilot]

relief tube,
a good friend of mine knew the owner of this company and got me the job. i am very fortunate to have gotten such a nice job with low time and have been thankful for every single hour.

you have been in the CHQ pool for 19 months??? i dont understand your last post about "having to work for it" i thought the pool letter that i got from CHQ meant that i was in line for the next class. i know they have been having new hire classes once a month for a little while. whats the deal???

 

[Be200pilot]

ok relief tube, your previous posts are flame bait
you are probably thinking of the resume pool or soemthing, not the hiring pool. you actually have to interview with CHQ in order to get a "your in the pool" letter. if you were in the hiring pool they would have called you for a class date before they put any other guys into a class.
19 months??? they have put hundreds of newhires through class since then!

 

[relief tube]

what the heck is flame bait? I've never used this message board to bicker back and forth with someone (until now), so Im new to terms like flame bait. I rationally told you what was going on and you tell me that Im completely wrong because you know everything that's going on with the company.

Why does anyone argue with you, because you already know everything, including every single move the hiring folks make.

You said "if you were in the hiring pool they would have called you for a class date before they put any other guys into a class.
19 months??? they have put hundreds of newhires through class since then!"

That's funny, I've got a half dozen friends in the same boat as me that'll love hearing that. Do your homework on it, you'll see. I wish those in hiring thought the same way as you, but that's not the case.

And if you want to call me out on something, that's cool, but save it for a personal message. If ya have any questions, send a me a message. The hardworking fellas that use this board for more
useful purposes don't need that crap.

Take it easy.

 

[oldguy]

TO Tarheel

You probably didn't get the job because you are a Tar-Hole!!!

Just kidding; I hope you get another chance with CHQ, I have worked for them for about a year now and love it. I know there was a 47 year old F/I in my class if that matters... But most older guys can't deal with 1st year f/o pay.

Good luck with your endeavors, but seriously; GET A NEW TEAM!!!

 

[pipejockey]

I was just on the pilotjobs.com website and clicked on the Chautaqua link and it indicated that a CFI rating is a minimum requirement, can this be true? The competetive minimums listed also seem quite low. If the competitive mins. are accurate it would seem I might have a chance there with 500 multi and 300 turbine...seems doubtful though.

 

[HatWearer]

I can back up relief tube on this...

I interviewed with CHQ, got a letter saying "you've been selected for the hiring pool"...and this happened spring of 2002, 19 mo. ago...

 

[BoilerUP]

Stupid question, but one that needs asking...


Have you been updating your resume every 4-6 months (since I assume you've still been flying)? Have you called to follow up? I know a guy who was in the "hiring pool" at CHQ but didn't get a class date until a guy in the training dept. walked his freshly updated resume in to HR. I also know people who have been in the pool since May 02 and either haven't been flying or haven't updated their resume. They are still waiting on a phone call....

 

[Be200pilot]

these people who have been in the pool for months and months, are they purdue graduates???

 

[BoilerUP]

these people who have been in the pool for months and months, are they purdue graduates???

I know of a few Purdue grads who have been swimming since May 02, but they haven't been regularly flying or haven't updated their resumes (doh!). A bunch of grads were hired last October and November, but they all flew the Beechjet. I also know people (3) who were hired into the pool this past May and started class a few weeks ago. One guy was around 1200/150, one guy had a BE40 type rating, and the highest time guy had over 2000 with Turbo Commander time.

I can't speak for any of the other people who have posted here on this board. I just hope CHQ has room for me when I graduate in 18 months....

Good luck everyone with your interviews!

 

[Be200pilot]

I just dont understand why CHQ would waste the time, money, and effort to interview pilots, and then put some of them into classes, while the others sit in a virtual perma-pool (example being "relief tube, BoilerUP" and their friends). And then on top of that, they hire more and more pilots while the existing pool is still waiting without being drained.

thats what i got from all of the previous posts. if it is true, then its really unfortunate that CHQ is wasting peoples time to sit in a pool forever while others get hired ahead for no reason.

 

[HatWearer]

Yep, I've been flying full-time as a CFI, updating my resume every 2-3 months or about every 100 hours...since May 2002...still swimming!

 

[aewanabe]

To my knowledge the only "perma-pool" swimmers are purdubies who interviewed as interns. I don't think anyone else is hired into the pool with and indeterminate class date; in other words, the small pool that is formed right now should be drained with the first class in January.

 

[relief tube]

That'd be great if you were right. Probably not, but we'll just have to see.

Others are hired just days after their interview while we continue to wait because they have more experience, plain and simple. 19 months of not getting a class is not too fun, but at least it's fair that 30 somethings with families and a 1000 more hours than me get it first. Good for them. They deserve good stuff.

It's not a matter of not updating stuff, I've been doing it every 3 weeks/100 hours, flying over 30 hours a week. An Internship or having people walk your stuff in aren't helping too much, at least with me, its all about the hours, Or so it seems. It's about multi time too though, and I don't have any lucky connections. Gotta find some 50 year old rich lady and pimp it as a sugar daddy for time in her twin maybee Oh well, just gotta keep patient keep positive, it'll happen, if not with CHQ, with someone else. But don't even expect to have anything 6 months outta college now. Unless your family's loaded and you grew up logging Baron time when you were 7, those days are LONG gone, probably for the better.

 

[Munchie]

Has anyone heard of a class date for January? I was at the 11-19-03 interview and got the pool letter. And, does anyone know if the December 2nd class of this month was the last class of this year? Hopefully they will call soon! Best of luck to eveyone in the pool now. Should I update my resume to Rosa before the end of the year? Thanks in advance for the advice!