Free in-house Delta Pilot Job Fair

Hacker15e said:
The email would start something like this:

"The Delta Pilot Selection Team is pleased to invite you to visit our World Headquarters Campus in Atlanta to be considered for employment as a Delta Air Lines pilot."

And then it would be followed by the paid, positive space transportation to the opportunity for Delta to get to know me beyond what is all ready on the detailed application I all ready paid to submit.

C'mon...Delta has tens of thousands of applications on file. There are throngs that hang on every morsel of information about Delta hiring and would practically throw themselves in front of a train to fly a widget jet. The company has its qualities and qualifications it is looking for, and an easy way to find them via the third party application process. There is a way for the company to find out more, and it is called an "interview".

What, exactly, is the point of an in-house job fair for the #1 most desired destination in the aviation industry?
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Meh, I'm the only one that wouldn't consider it top of my list.

Derek
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Derg,

It's the overall gist of this job fair stuff.

If you're a FO..... "go upgrade, get the PIC, maybe try checkairman too."

If you're a CA..... "go be a checkairman"


If you're a CA, and a checkairman, and volunteer work, the whole 9 yards................ "everything looks good, keep up what you're doing, etc"



"OMG! Your resume looks freakin awesome, work and volunteer experience rocks, you're gonna get a call for an interview here in less than 2 months ......" SAID NO LEGACY RECRUITER EVER at these job fairs.


When they're all hiring ~800-900+ a year, there's no reason why they can't make that statement. But they never do.
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A-•-men.
 
ian said:
so first it's you don't run a business so you don't know any of this......then it's your business isn't big enough for you to know...got it
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No, it's more an issue of just say Thank you for having a job fair, Delta and move on. If the Taco rumor does materialize, I hope it's from somewhere not even close to the airport for all your sakes!
 
Hacker15e said:
Great words, except I do run my own business with paid employees and every thing.

Part of the business transaction is making your employees happy to work for you. Im the privileged one as the employer, having good people do that work for me...they are not privileged for me to pay them for their expertise and skill.
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Two word. Motor Oil.

That's all employees are, motor oil.

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At least according to "someone."
 
DPApilot said:
But that the thing. Spend some time talking to recruiters. Job fairs don't mean poop. It's just another way to get yourself out there. Maybe if people understood what water these events carrierd, they wouldn't spend thousands going to them. Pilots are their own worts enemies in this BS game.
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@Derg getting flak for a free job fair is bogus. Totally agree. Having to pay for any job fair, whether it be one of the Alphabet organizations or not, just for the opportunity to possibly talk to a recruiter, on the off chance it may marginally improve your chance, makes a lot of guys feel slighted. Especially when I keep hearing that someone paid a good chunk of change, and some places didn't send enough recruiters, so some guys never got face time for their investment, which is the only reason they went in the first place.
 
DPApilot said:
I don't understand how a guy who runs a networking website posts a link to a free job fair gets flack for it. This is the reason many posting here don't have a job at mainline...
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I don't think the recruiters enjoyed me winking and blowing kisses to them while I met with them last time around... Or perhaps it was my excessive "Sooorry... Sooorry... Sooorry."
 
If more airlines do this kind of thing, I can see paid job fairs becoming a thing of the past, much like PFT.

Especially when people are paying a load of $$ they can barely afford, and in many cases not getting their money's worth
 
I think there's a bit of a strawman here. Engineers, physicians, etc (the people we like to pretend we are most similar to) typically don't show up for an interview and walk out with an offer. There are multiple rounds of interviews and usually some hand massages between varying strata of management before they get a yob. At a Delta interview, they get x minutes of face time to decide whether or not you're going to work there for 30+ years. It does not seem irrational to me to want to increase that number. I should add that this is a two way street...you get to see who you're going to be working with/for.

In any case, thanks for making us aware of this TRAVESTY, Derg! With any luck, I'll see you there.
 
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I'm married to an engineer.

There's no limo that shows up, bouquet of flowers from competing agencies, no signing bonuses and no "sign here and get a year supply of Omaha Steaks".

7,000 to 10,000 applications on file, you need 1,800 to 2,500 solid applicants to see if you're a match for the company and if the company is a match for your career expectations.

I thought, well I assumed that the website shed some light on how the system works in a highly competitive industry. Some of you understood but some of you are treating like a flipping readers comment section to an political article on The Huffington Post.

Let me be clear. If you want a job at Delta and you feel you're an exceptional candidate, you will benefit from attending.

If you don't want to work at Delta or don't meet the basic requirements, do everyone a favor and save your editorial bellyaching for the lavatory.

I would have loved for this thread to serve as a "save the date" post to get the time off if you have interest instead of yet another "life is unfair"

Social media is a thing. Everyone reads everything.
 
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Cptnchia said:
I hate to say it @Derg but I do believe a Gnash ClusterTM formed here.
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Apparently so.

Imagine, if you will, if this thread were five pages of people forming meet 'n greets in ATL, sharing a little advice about "do's and don'ts" and job fair/hunt strategies, maybe a little resume exchange to help one another hone down their resumes, maybe even dispel some rumors in advance of a career fair.

But what do we have?

SMDH...
 
Well, on the plus side, the Delta Pilot Recruiting page comments with that announcement seemed to go the way this thread should have. ;)
 
@Derg I know that I and countless others have benefitted greatly from your efforts and website over the years and will be eternally grateful. I also know that you have spent an ungodly amount of your own time, money, and peace of mind doing a completely philanthropic mission of bringing aviation people together and trying to spread career and personal success and networking. You say to pay it forward as a thanks, but that will never match what you have been able to accomplish.

Between airlines who essentially steal your time and money from events youve tried to arrange, to people acting like jackasses at career events in Vegas, and even just whining online, it saddens me that you've had to deal with any downside at all to what I view as a selfless endeavor. From all those who continue to benefit from what you do, thank you for not throwing in the towel.
 
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