Your thoughts on job boards

[BoDEAN]

AEPS

I signed up for the free 7 day trial.
Get a lot of mail from them. A digest mail, and some other lists that I guess they subscribed me to. Is this normal? I have to sift through all these different emails now to figure out what they are. My understanding was, once signingup, you go to the site and see what jobs are out there. Didn't know handful of digest emails were sent out

 

[Publishers]

AEPS

AEPS

AEPS is set up for the companies to use for searches. It costs them nothing which is why they use them. The format and everything were done with that in mind.

If you think the concept is to have a jobs board, you already missed the boat. Many of these jobs are not boards because they do not want piles of resumes from people that do not meet their real needs.

As example, if I want to set 5000 as the minimum time required, those with 4999 do not get in the search result. If I want a Lear rating, those without do not get in. It is possible to limit to a very specific list and that is the advantage. Even most companies that posted jobs did the search first.

 

[BoDEAN]

Thanks.
So signing up and paying with that company, puts your job information on the table, for employeers to pick/look at if they desire. It's not meant for you, the job seeker, to see what is available out there, say in a certain area?

 

[Publishers]

basically

In a way that is correct. Many dismiss or pay no attention to that aspect of membership. By the way, this is true of not only AEPS but a few others like Pilotstaffcv .

The reason it is set up this way is so --being free to the employer-- there is no reason for them not to use it.

To classify these as just a job board is not correct. Frankly I have posted jobs on AEPS and been blasted with profiles. Most were not qualified for what I was looking for, a large number extremely poorly done.

It is much easier to run a silent search-- put in the exact qualifications and see how many you get. If you get 20, you usually can dismiss 15 right off.

What everyone signs up for of course is the job board so they can send their information even when they do not meet the qualification. Or, they meet them and hear nothing. The average job posting on AEPS results in over 100 profiles.

 

[captainv]

AEPS

I tried AEPS for a while before cancelling. Complete waste of time in my case. I got the occasional email telling me that some company in LA was looking for a G-IV or Global Express captain. Not exactly helpful when you're flying Learjets. If it works for others, great - i'm just describing my experience.

I know of several jobs that came up in my area, that were posted elsewhere on the Net, none of which AEPS alerted me to. In my experience, most corporate flight departments hire people they know, or recommendations from pilots they trust. The occasional exception would be a guy who hands out his resume in person to the local flight departments and gets lucky. But that would only happen if he had lots of time in type. We got lots of resumes from airline captains, but if they didn't have recent corporate time, it didn't help much in a small flight department.

When i had low time, i thought these boards would alert me to jobs on the next rung up the ladder. But now i think the whole thing is bass-ackwards. the applicants with low time and not much free income pay so the company can browse our numbers for free? no wonder they love it, but i haven't met any pilot who benefited from one of these....

 

[reepicheep]

I agree with CaptainV.

Sure there are exceptions, but in this environment if a corporate or charter flight department needs to hire a pilot they will be deluged with resumes via the Old Boy Network. Why bother to go out and advertise?

 

[Publishers]

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I am not saying that they are the be all and end all of the process you need to participate in. Still for the money, they are very inexpensive.

Look at all levels, who you know and where you are make all the difference. Still, this process works because I saw it when I did the magazine. If I needed someone tomorrow, that is where I would look first.