jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
Sure, I don't disagree, but I want to work for a company, not date it.
How to stand out at a Job Fair and ask smart questions.
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Sure, I don't disagree, but I want to work for a company, not date it.
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bLizZuE
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Ok? I thought we were being metaphorical. You’re being literal. Now I’m confused.
I’m reading him as he did the dating game for airlines in the past and is happy he doesn’t have to do it anymore. Also, that the airline dating game sucks.
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I consider it somewhat ironic(? interesting? I dunno, choose an adjective) that, for the best job I've ever had in this business, I attended exactly zero fairs, Meet the Chiefs, and so on. I did spend a lot of time playing phone tag with our recruiting team, but never saw us at a fair.
jynxyjoe
Queso King
Shouldnt you be drinking beer by now?
Is it beer o’clock already!? Well, okay then!
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
And in obvious news, proponents of job fairs are those who it worked out well for.
jynxyjoe
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To those in highschool and many of you living life, i cant recommend binge drinking enough.
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The problem is he is occasionally right.
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The following observation is substantially correct:
That said, I wouldn't trade the people I've met and the friends I've made at job fairs for all the coat buttons in the world, so maybe there is some utility to them beyond glad-handing and applying grease. As far as securing the major job, well, it works for the people it works for.
bLizZuE
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chrisreedrules
Master Blaster
Never been to one in my life. But I am privy to some interesting statistics.
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Would you deign to share with the class or
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Those statistics are hard to prove causation when it comes to landing the job. Almost everyone here (apparently not you) has been to at least one job fair. If you poll newhires in a class and ask about their job fair attendance, chances are a lot of hands are going to go up. Still, it doesn't prove that particular job fair resulted in this job they are sitting in.
Dphoenix
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At your particular airline, all of us who interviewed and were hired that day went and talked to Alaska at OBAP - literally 12/12. A former coworker of mine who interviewed a different day and actually took the class said that there wasn't a single person there that hadn't talked to Alaska at OBAP (I think that was the 12/2 or 12/9 class). So I would say for that airline in particular, job fair attendance is very highly correlated to success. There are other airlines that may be an entirely different story, I'm simply trying to provide a data point.
Similar story at UA - most of the people in my new hire class had gone to the September job fair, although it's a little different since they invite you.
Similar story at UA - most of the people in my new hire class had gone to the September job fair, although it's a little different since they invite you.
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Oh. Leisure suits. That’s how you stand out.