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mwmav8r01

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Does anyone know if CO is hiring anyone without a 4 year degree? Things look very good there. Anyone with any input?
 
She'll just tell you that we only hire scabs with pre-k edumacateion.
 
So.. Anyone know. If you have 2 letters of rec (from CO pilots), clean record, 6000 tt, >1000 turbine, and >500 hrs turbine PIC. What the chances of getting in are? Did the airlineapps thing in March. What (I guess is my question) is the time frame of getting called?

Any info would be great, thx!
 
BLUE-ICE-MAN said:
So.. Anyone know. If you have 2 letters of rec (from CO pilots), clean record, 6000 tt, >1000 turbine, and >500 hrs turbine PIC. What the chances of getting in are? Did the airlineapps thing in March. What (I guess is my question) is the time frame of getting called?

Any info would be great, thx!
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From what I understand, your chances of getting in are tied to a sponsor to do a walk-in recommendation for you. The letters of recommendation are nice to have, but they won't get you an interview.
I asked KD Jost if people get hired off the streets without recs. His reply was that they only do that when there's a niche that needs to be filled, such as getting more pilots with military backgrounds. There's a new lady involved in the hiring process now who's taken over KD's job, but I think the rules haven't changed.
No applications are being solicited for interviews at the moment as they have said that they know who they want to interview until Sept.
Hope this helps.
 
Thanks ACWild! Sucks to be me then! I'll see who I can take hostage to walk my stuff in... Thanks again!
 
Yeah, "niches" being filled ha ha. CAL could pass for an NBA team lately. (Not that there's anything wrong with that) I just wonder how bad the fine was in the lawsuit no one has heard about.
 
So are you saying that I have the wrong equipment suffix being a white male? I believe in equality not special treatment.
 
mwmav8r01 said:
So are you saying that I have the wrong equipment suffix being a white male? I believe in equality not special treatment.
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You need a walk-in recommendation. Plain and simple. I honestly haven't noticed any "profile" hiring (not that I care to keep track of it either), so no need for any conspiracy theories. If you have the qualifications and most importantly, someone who will go to bat for you, your chances of an interview greatly increase.
 
BigShotXJTdrvr said:
Yeah, "niches" being filled ha ha. CAL could pass for an NBA team lately. (Not that there's anything wrong with that) I just wonder how bad the fine was in the lawsuit no one has heard about.
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I wonder how many military pilots they've hired lately. I've heard not many, and why would they want a four year degree? Because of all the applications?

Can anyone confirm the rumor that not even all the CAL pilots have a H.S. degree? Can you be hired with just a G.E.D.?
 
Maybe in the past you could get hired without a degree, but now you need a 4 year degree, that's what my chief pilot told me when I tried to recommend a friend without one. Maybe if you knew someone personally in management they would make the exception, but I don't think your chances are good, even with a line pilot rec.
 
I was hired recently without a degree, but I do have three years of college. So it can be done. Like everybody, I had a good sponser who went to bat for me several times.
 
BLUE-ICE-MAN said:
So.. Anyone know. If you have 2 letters of rec (from CO pilots), clean record, 6000 tt, >1000 turbine, and >500 hrs turbine PIC. What the chances of getting in are? Did the airlineapps thing in March. What (I guess is my question) is the time frame of getting called?

Any info would be great, thx!
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FWIW, I was told that competitive interviewees (the bulk -- there are still exceptions) currently have >3000 turbine and more than 1000 turbine PIC.
 
I heard that a white guy filled in the "african american" block on a United App one time. He then went in to interview. During the interview the human resource people came in and asked him about the application error, and he replied, " I did what? Oh, I'm sorry, that was an accident. Its not a problem, is it?" Apparently, he got hired.

Worth a try.
 
JetFumes said:
I heard that a white guy filled in the "african american" block on a United App one time. He then went in to interview. During the interview the human resource people came in and asked him about the application error, and he replied, " I did what? Oh, I'm sorry, that was an accident. Its not a problem, is it?" Apparently, he got hired.

Worth a try.
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Ha ha, speaking of United interviews, I heard that a woman went into her interview with a ventriloquism dummy. Whenever the interviewer asked her a question, she'd say "Oh I don't know, what do you think?" Then she'd answer with the dummy.:nuts:
I don't recommend this approach.
 
ACWild said:
Ha ha, speaking of United interviews, I heard that a woman went into her interview with a ventriloquism dummy. Whenever the interviewer asked her a question, she'd say "Oh I don't know, what do you think?" Then she'd answer with the dummy.:nuts:
I don't recommend this approach.
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I'll bet she was hired.
 
Captain Overs said:
Can anyone confirm the rumor that not even all the CAL pilots have a H.S. degree? Can you be hired with just a G.E.D.?
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There is an XJT guy who is there now who had only a GED. He is a great guy and I wouldn't be surprised to see him running an airline sometime in the next 30 years. Very smart guy who really understands how to run an operation and be a good guy at the same time. I guess it is possible, but I would say very, very unlikely to get hired with just a GED.
 

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