Got the job, now what?

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Dx77W

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It was a long journey, but finally got a job as a Skywest DX'er! I'll be in the Nov. 10th class, and it's taken me since April when I got my license to land that first job. The road ahead is exciting, and daunting at the same time. Which gets to my question on training and finally getting to land at my own desk: does anyone have any advice on how I can best prepare for training? Should I look over material from when I got my license, or will Skywest basically lay a new foundation for me. I know there are some Skywest DX'er's here on the forum so any chimes from you guys would be awesome.

Thanks!
 
Dx77W said:
It was a long journey, but finally got a job as a Skywest DX'er! I'll be in the Nov. 10th class, and it's taken me since April when I got my license to land that first job. The road ahead is exciting, and daunting at the same time. Which gets to my question on training and finally getting to land at my own desk: does anyone have any advice on how I can best prepare for training? Should I look over material from when I got my license, or will Skywest basically lay a new foundation for me. I know there are some Skywest DX'er's here on the forum so any chimes from you guys would be awesome.

Thanks!
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Congrats! I'll leave the advice giving to someone from Skywest.
 
Congrats! Not sure about Skywest training, but it would be good to study up on dispatch regs and wx at least. Especially if it's been since April that you've looked at any of it.
 
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Like Womanpilot73 said refresh yourself with regs and weather. Also if you can get Skywest's FOM and other manuals to study that it will give you a heads up.
 
Dx77W said:
Thanks everyone for the advice!
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Best advice I can give you as a fairly new SKW Dispatcher myself is to empty your mind because it's about to be overloaded with more than you'll ever want to know about Dispatching RJs... The training you'll get here is top notch so don't feel like you need to overprepare, just make sure to study during training and ask for help when you need it. You'll literally have no shoratge of opportunities to learn, train, learn some more, train some more, and then top it off with further learning and further training... And then when you get done with that you'll go learn and train because there's not much else to do here in scenic St. George.
 
Dx77W said:
It was a long journey, but finally got a job as a Skywest DX'er! I'll be in the Nov. 10th class, and it's taken me since April when I got my license to land that first job. The road ahead is exciting, and daunting at the same time. Which gets to my question on training and finally getting to land at my own desk: does anyone have any advice on how I can best prepare for training? Should I look over material from when I got my license, or will Skywest basically lay a new foundation for me. I know there are some Skywest DX'er's here on the forum so any chimes from you guys would be awesome.

Thanks!
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Welcome aboard, btw, congrats on getting the job!
 
I don't know where they do there dispatcher training but I have crj new hire training starting nov. 17th.
 
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A good place to ride out the zombie apocalypse? Oops - never mind, it was just a Rolling Stones concert.
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I think SGU as a whole would ride out an actual zombie apocalypse pretty well. Many of the Mormons here are big on stockpiling for apocalyptic circumstances.
 
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