Although I sympathize, do you think you're the only one who is asking themselves these questions and feeling this frustration? I've seen you post a number of times expressing similar sentiment, and I'm left with the feeling that you have a bit of a blind spot with respect to your situation being pretty typical.
I know a lot -- a lot -- of highly qualified people of both civilian and military backgrounds in the same boat as you. I don't know your exact resume data, but many of the people I am referring to have superb resumes; the military guys were Commanders, evaluators, instructors, and the regional/civilian guys are LCAs, chief pilots, etc....and they've had applications out there for in some cases two or more years
with all these quals on them.
There is an intersection here of two things that are both out of your control and out of your ability to observe:
- Airlines have unknown and transient qualifications that they're using to call for interviews and hire (note the posts this morning from
@Derg in another threadregarding how one Legacy seems to have changed its own process within the last 12 months).
- You don't really know what other guys who've been hired actually have on their resumes. I've shared my resume, and offered to critique/review resumes of several pilots who are trying to get hired at my current shop. I've been surprised more than a few times by qualifications/accomplishments/awards these people had that I never knew about. In some cases, these were people I'd known for years, and whom I'd thought I knew their quals...but they had things in there that made them more (and sometimes less...) qualified than I thought they were. Other people have said the same thing upon seeing my resume, too. Sometimes the game people verbally told me about themselves wildly understated (or overstated) how they looked on paper. So, I've learned that you can't really effectively yardstick yourself against someone unless you've actually seen their app/resume.
