Kit Darby says pilot hiring is going strong

[B777]

Let's see, you want to show up and only pay for the companies that you want. That's a novel concept. It is pretty much assumed that the indviduals that go to these are there for one or two employers. In all the ones I have been to, Air Inc or others, I never heard one pilot prospect say,,,, you know it hurt my chances meeting that recruiter.
Secondly, if you saw the garbage that comes in here in the way of resume's or the lack of ability to speak intelligently, or, the applications that show one was not even qualified for what they were applying for, you would know that the world needs the Kit's, Resume Writers, and all the other help you can find.

You can pick up up a couple of books that would help you format a resume and do well on an interview, all under $50 as opposed to paying $200!

They are blood sucking loosers. The only good thing that comes out of Air Inc is their monthly magazine and hiring news letter.

 

[B777]

and to show that they are blood sucking loosers . . . why not devide the seminars into 2 days? Those wishing to attend the seminars and all that other bullshit can pay the full price and attend both days. Those that are only interested in meeting the recuirters, can attend the second day and pay a reduced price. But now, they are greedy bastards that want to suck as much money out of pilots who are not making the money to begin with.

Some of the companies that go attend the seminars, actually hold free job fairs for their company. But no, Kirt Darby wants to charge $200! Aviationinerviews, flightinfo.com, are all for free to help pilots. Kirt Darby charges $200 a head. Bottom line is that Kirt Darby preys on desperate pilots that are not making money.

 

[psysix]

and to show that they are blood sucking loosers . . . why not devide the seminars into 2 days? Those wishing to attend the seminars and all that other bullshoot can pay the full price and attend both days. Those that are only interested in meeting the recuirters, can attend the second day and pay a reduced price. But now, they are greedy bastards that want to suck as much money out of pilots who are not making the money to begin with.

Some of the companies that go attend the seminars, actually hold free job fairs for their company. But no, Kirt Darby wants to charge $200! Aviationinerviews, flightinfo.com, are all for free to help pilots. Kirt Darby charges $200 a head. Bottom line is that Kirt Darby preys on desperate pilots that are not making money.

Dude, you don't need a job seminar, you need a spelling seminar!

 

[Publishers]

The reason that Kit charges -- and remember I am not a fan of his -- is that he does not charge the companies anything to be there which is why more of them come..... When AEPS had their job fairs before Kit took that over, the companies paid for the space and the fee for the attendee's was just enought to keep anyone walking down the street from coming in. Kit pays for their food etc, and so they come whether or not they really need or want people.
Obviously the number of people who came to the seminars are not sufficient to pay for the event, only the draw of the airlines and people wanting to meet the recruiters are willing to pay.
For some reason, you think all this should be free..... not going to happen.

 

[pilotyip]

There have been many posts here that pilots have said the contacts at Air Inc resulted in interviews and job offers. The mentality of not paying Kit any money because I am pilot and I should not have to pay for this, is probably the same guy who does not want to pay Cheryl Cage for interview prep, and then find themselves not getting hired. Those who think Kit is a rip off, they should not attend, but it is not their place to judge anyone if they elect to go

 

[B777]

There have been many posts here that pilots have said the contacts at Air Inc resulted in interviews and job offers. The mentality of not paying Kit any money because I am pilot and I should not have to pay for this, is probably the same guy who does not want to pay Cheryl Cage for interview prep, and then find themselves not getting hired. Those who think Kit is a rip off, they should not attend, but it is not their place to judge anyone if they elect to go

Well said and I agree with you, it is not my place to judge wether another pilot should go or not. However, I can present opinion/facts in order to help that pilot make a decsion. So here they are:

Opinion: I attended the seminar to help out a previous employer. This was back in 2001. I was a pilot at that time but not a commercial pilot and I was not employed as a pilot by the airline I was helping. In my opinion, I did not see any benefit to the pilots that talked to the CP of the airline I was working for.

Facts: I joined Air Inc in September in order to prepare for an interiview I had with AWAC. I did so in order to listen to the taped interivew. It turned out the information presented by Air Inc was inaccurate. Instead, the information I obtained from aviationinterviews were right on.

There are many other inaccuracies that are not of significance but makes me question how thoughrough they are about the information they present to us. For example I just received an e-mail from them saying that several airlines will be conducting on the spot interviews in DFW. They list AWAC as having 70 CRJ 14 BAe146 and bases in DEN, ORD, IAD, . . . Not true, by Feb 2006, AWAC will have completed the transition to US with different crew bases and all BAe146 phased out . . . other inaccuracies about Comair . . . Expressjet in the article they just published last month and so on and so on . . .