Pilot Job Fair

[Mojo Risen]

I have a question about attending a pilot job fair in Atlanta in April. Has anyone attended one and are the costs worth the time and travel for the seminars and potential chance to meet the carriers attending the event. I am a newby, and I am currently 120hrs short of my interview. Is it worth the cost for the resume classes offered? Thanks for any input.

DRan

 

[pilotyip]

Do a search under Air Inc. This has been beat to death so many times there is nothing more that can be said on this subject.

 

[English]

Hey pilotyip, I thought you liked beating dead horses?

Let's talk about college degrees...

 

[Bluto]

How about the hiring boom of 2007!?

 

[pilotyip]

Those have not been beat to death, only the proof of time will truly and righteously vindicate the validity of the stance.

 

[ATRCAPT]

I've been to two AIR INC. job fairs, and got an interview from one of them. I eneded up not taking the job which would have led to a furlough a year later. Anyhoo, as much as I hate to give Kit the $$, the job fairs are good IF you have the time and qualifications to actually get the job you're looking to get (regionals, nationals, majors, etc.). If you hoping you might be able to slide in with less qualifications I would wait a while. Also check out www.pilotconnections.com. I believe they conduct job fairs as well, but they charge about a third of what Kit Darby charges. Good luck!

 

[goatrope]

Do a search under Air Inc. This has been beat to death so many times there is nothing more that can be said on this subject.

Never fails. Someone asks a legitimate question and some looser that spends way too much time on this board because they have no freaking life, has to be a sarcastic prick

 

[hindsight2020]

I personally like the one about job fairs being useful PROVIDED one has the qualifications......well, sh$t let me hold off until I get those 10,000 turbine PIC, maybe then I can be competitive for that "job which would have led to a furlough a year later". Sorry ATRCAPT, not pickin on ya personally, I just felt like contributing to the sarcastic prick comment.

P.S. I miss Atlanta, great place to live, I don't discount the possibility of relocating there one of these days...provided I can find a somewhat decent CFI gig there of course...happy flying folks!

 

[Bluto]

Never fails. Someone asks a legitimate question and some looser that spends way too much time on this board because they have no freaking life, has to be a sarcastic prick

Another thing that never fails is some newbie to the boards who asks assinine questions, then gets personally offended when told to try the search function before asking a question. Not talking about you Mojo, just Mr. Goat here.

 

[pilotyip]

Prick Expert?

Sarcastic prick? Is goat guy an expert on the field? Can I use this as an endorsement on my resume? Seriously if mojo guy wanted instant info there was a wealth of knowledge already available to answer his questions and give him a broad range of information. This could be done without waiting for responses.

 

[Resume Writer]

Sarcastic prick? Can I use this as an endorsement on my resume?

As a professional in the resume writing industry for 18 years, I can say with absolute certainty that you should not include that under endorsements!

To the original poster, if you are just going for the resume classes, I would say it is not worth the money. That is a lot of money to pay, and I am going to pretty much guarantee you they will not tell you everything or how to position yourself.

I specifically do not do resume writing seminars because everyone is different - paid or unpaid. A resume should be unique to you and bring out the "unique promise of value" that you bring to an employer.

If your goal is to get in front of employers, and you do not meet their minimums, they will most likely trash your resume. Not because they do not like you, but because they would do that to anyone not meeting mins, as they do not have the storage space for the resumes.

These are just my opinions. Worth what you pay for them!

Kathy

 

[JediNein]

Those have not been beat to death, only the proof of time will truly and righteously vindicate the validity of the stance.

This has to be the quote of the week.

 

[English]

I thought about making it my signature, but I couldn't stop laughing long enough to set it up.

 

[Bluto]

I thought he was being sarcastic. A little self-deprecation maybe? I think you guys are too hard on YIP. On the other hand...if he wasn't being sarcastic, you guys aren't being hard enough.

 

[pilotyip]

English if you use that as a tag line I want a royality. I have no idea what is means, but I am glad you like it.

 

[English]

Deal!

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

Sounds like another place setting at the BBQ

Deal!

Glad to see you and Pilotyip are getting along. Just don't tell him it's a pool party, all those years of flying night freight out of YIP and being a a card-carrying member of the AARP.....well, you get the picture.

Just put some of that red-dye detector in the water and don't bring up the four-year degree thing and it should be a good time!

 

[flyboytop1]

Hi I rarely go on this flightinfo site for obvious reasons, same why i don't go to company pilot meetings- they are all bitch sessions. Anyway, if I can be of help=been to many job fairs and in fact the first one I went to , I got hired at the job fair after being unemployed for a week! A sussequent job fair I won a type rating of my choice!! so the fair did pay off for me. In fact the job i got at the fair after an interview was my first jet experience-I made captain on my first jet in 3 months, flew that for 2 years and am now captain on a DC-9 with the same company and just completed my fifth year.

I have been to an interview prep at the fair-but most of the stuff you can read in a book-like I've read on resumes, etc. Plus I like the travel and see friends in Atlanta during the fair and other locales they've been at: DC, etc.
The best advice I can give is to limit yourself to this site-like I don't hang out with negative people. As so blessed we are in this country it pains me to see such sarcasism and cynics and negativity on this site from pilots. But I learned if they win the 35 million dollar lotto- they'll bitch because someone else won 36 million- it truely amazes me sometime to read such crap from otherwise intelligent, talented,people/pilots. Hope it helps- God Bless.

 

[SWAnnabee]

Hi I rarely go on this flightinfo site for obvious reasons, same why i don't go to company pilot meetings- they are all bitch sessions.

As so blessed we are in this country it pains me to see such sarcasism and cynics and negativity on this site from pilots. But I learned if they win the 35 million dollar lotto- they'll bitch because someone else won 36 million- it truely amazes me sometime to read such crap from otherwise intelligent, talented,people/pilots. Hope it helps- God Bless.

Quit your bitching!

 

[flyboytop1]

hey Bozt45, My reply was not to you! But you confirm the attitude of most on this site-negative. Go live in rwanda for awhile then come home..

 

[SWAnnabee]

Response

Your post bitching about too much bitching seemed kind of ironic and I was attempting to address the above stated irony,....bitch.