Before pilot hiring gets hot in a few weeks: Letters of Recommendation

moxiepilot said:
I'll be honest. I used to help people with resume refinement but frankly people just didn't want to put in the work to make it better. Similarly I think a few people who want to learn to interview better don't want to learn to interview better.

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I’m really digging deep in my memory but I believe you helped me out with mine a good 15 years ago when I was a fresh commercial pilot casting out resumes to whatever low time job I could find. I used the same template ever since with some minor tweaks. Safe to say it’s been wildly successful. If I never said so (hopefully I did!), a big thank you.
 
JordanD said:
I’m really digging deep in my memory but I believe you helped me out with mine a good 15 years ago when I was a fresh commercial pilot casting out resumes to whatever low time job I could find. I used the same template ever since with some minor tweaks. Safe to say it’s been wildly successful. If I never said so (hopefully I did!), a big thank you.
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If I helped, you're welcome.
 
moxiepilot said:
I'll be honest. I used to help people with resume refinement but frankly people just didn't want to put in the work to make it better. Similarly I think a few people who want to learn to interview better don't want to learn to interview better.
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I used an older post of yours a few years ago when cleaning up my resume. It was good advice.

So they weren’t wasted words. Thanks, btw.
 
Richman said:
Fun was back in the day sitting with my bro in the office. Looking at a stack of 400 resumes, all CFI/CFII/MEI, 300 hours, 10 multi.

We needed to hire one.

No scanning. No searching in a batch PDF. No algorithms. Just a hopeless cause.

One day, a lone CFI wanders in and says "hey, you guys hiring?". He'd been on a road trip visiting different country airports looking for a job, using a list he'd cribbed out of Flying and Plane & Pilot, and by the looks of his car, he was ready to roll into whatever he found.

After a 20 minute chat, the chief CFI takes him for a spin round the patch in a 152.

Hired. Problem solved.

Get out. Touch grass.
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That is literally how I got my first CFI job.

It was the last place to hit that day after months of looking, every day.

I was tired, hungry, my sock was wet because it was raining and I had a hole in my shoe, walked in and it basically changed my life because about a year later, some UPS 747 captain walks in looking for a checkout in a 150 and the rest was history.
 
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