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Do you feel that if Ariben had a more Airline Oriented Training approach and a CRM course it would have been more helpful?
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For the record, I am not with an airline. I fly for a 135 operator (and 91).
More helpful?? I was hired with less than....., well, lets just say I instructed for 8 months, and landed the job. When I went to initial, I recieved a good dose of CRM (the Flight Safety way).
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Or do you think its just marketing BS by some of the big academies and the Airline style of training and CRM was easy to pick up when you trained with the airline you got hired at?
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I am not going to call it BS. Money spent on education is never wasteful. It just depends on how much you want to spend. The difference in price between Ari Ben and the big schools is enourmous. I was extremely motivated to get through the program, and could not justify the price difference. For me, it payed off.
Lastly, I don't care what the sales people tell you. If you think they are going to help you get a job...think again. If you want one, you are the one that does the leg work. If the placement office is going to help you, then they are sending out 100 other (or more) resumes at bulk rate.
I knocked on doors for a couple of months. Then one day, I fell in one of them.
Keep the resumes flowing...every 100 hrs was one of my strategies (followed by a phone call). I focused on several operators that I " really wanted to work for".
Additionallly, the multi time helped a lot!!