How long ?

[Casper]

I have sent my resume to almost every Regional out there and it has been about two weeks now, can any one tell me how long before you usually here something.

Thanks.

 

[Q200_FO]

Never if you just sit there and wait for them to call you......

 

[CaptBud330]

Your pretty impatient aren't you? There are only about 12,000 furloughed 121 pilots out there that have more taxi time then you have total time.

 

[English]

Hey Casper, I thought you were just hired to fly a CJ2. What happened?

 

[Casper]

English,
I am still going to take the CJ job however I got that from a conection I have through my current employment but I am still interested in the Regionals and and I did send out my resumes before I heard from the CJ guy I just think that the Regionals might be better for me down the line and even though there are so many people looking people are getting hired so I was just wondering what is the average time that people hear something, also not to get off the subject but to revert back to last weeks blow up about PFT after tinking about it more I must admitt that Gulfstream 200 was correct and if a company is not willing to invest the $ in you then really the company is not worth it.

 

[acaTerry]

Never if you just sit there and wait for them to call you......

Don't listen to this guy. I was on the CA selection board a while back and know that one of the best ways to get "lost" in the recruiters office is to be a pest.
Hang in there. It's pretty saturated out there. Good rule of thumb: find yourself in a spot where you can't go to the interview, and you'll get 5 of them al wanting you in the same week. Then the one you REALLY wanted will call you in your first day of ground school at the airline you took.

 

[JJJ]

Fly the CJ2, get some more time, keep your resume updated, network, network, network, and wait. It will happen, it's just a matter of time.

 

[7B2]

Casper, are you in anyway afraid of the world outside?
Just a question, nothing more.

 

[English]

English,
I am still going to take the CJ job however I got that from a conection I have through my current employment but I am still interested in the Regionals and and I did send out my resumes before I heard from the CJ guy I just think that the Regionals might be better for me down the line and even though there are so many people looking people are getting hired so I was just wondering what is the average time that people hear something, also not to get off the subject but to revert back to last weeks blow up about PFT after tinking about it more I must admitt that Gulfstream 200 was correct and if a company is not willing to invest the $ in you then really the company is not worth it.

Hey Casper, I hate to pick on you, because usually I'm not the grammar police, BUT -

If you are going to go to CJ2 ground school, or any regional airline's ground school, you are going to need to learn to write sentences. The paragraph you wrote above was one sentence! Sorry dude, your train of thought is just too hard to follow with all those run-on sentences and comma splices.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

Casper=planehpn.

thats my thought.

 

[ILStoMinimums]

Hey Casper, I hate to pick on you, because usually I'm not the grammar police, BUT -

If you are going to go to CJ2 ground school, or any regional airline's ground school, you are going to need to learn to write sentences. The paragraph you wrote above was one sentence! Sorry dude, your train of thought is just too hard to follow with all those run-on sentences and comma splices.

You mean they check your grammar skills at a "Flight-Safety" type rating school?

 

[English]

A certain amount of intelligence is required to get a type rating..and that intelligence could be reflected in one's writing and communication skills.

 

[pilotyip]

college degree anyone?

The ability to write as well as "English" as nothing to do with a type rating. I have known an HS drop out who passed type rating that a college grad failed. Skill, raw intelligence, and the ability to learn determine your success in flying an airplane. Again the college degree has nothing to do with flying an airplane. It only opens doors.

 

[English]

Re: college degree anyone?

The ability to write as well as "English" as nothing to do with a type rating. I have known an HS drop out who passed type rating that a college grad failed. Skill, raw intelligence, and the ability to learn determine your success in flying an airplane. Again the college degree has nothing to do with flying an airplane. It only opens doors.

Talk about one-trick pony...who said anything about a college degree? This is stuff I learned in junior high.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

I agree with YIP, one certainly does not need a degree to get through a type ride - nor does one need much in the way of smarts.....FlightSafety will train a monkey if he brings a check...passing a type ride certainly does not prove you possess any real piloting skills.

But being an idiot and/or having no degree MAY very well keep you in the lower end of the job market for your entire career...but then again some may like $hitty PFT or cargo jobs..

..all in the eyes of the beholder...

 

[Casper]

Can't we just all get along ?

 

[Q200_FO]

Never if you just sit there and wait for them to call you......

Whatever dude, but it worked for me.

 

[DaveyDave]

Whatever dude, but it worked for me.

Me too. I faxed my resume to Comair and got the call 3 weeks later. I didn't know anyone there to walk it in. The system still works, hang in there.

 

[MYFpilot]

can any one tell me how long before you usually here something

I took me about two years, so get comfy..............................

 

[FN FAL]

can any one tell me how long before you usually here something?

There is a bit of caution for you hear, if you get too much second in command time in a citation, the regionals will look at you as being overqualified and apt to move on to the majors before they get their money's worth out of you. So becareful not to get too much of that CJ SIC, you here?