Job fair poll

[JetDoc]

I had a fast pass with AA at the WAI last month. Mundane was a good word for it. My recruiter I talked to told me I might be more competitive if I were to purchase a large jet type rating (320/737 etc) and to reapply after that....I was floored. Ive been a; sim instructor/ sim examiner, DPE, I have thousands of TPIC etc. I dunno.

Un-freaking-believable..

 

[derg]

I had a fast pass with AA at the WAI last month. Mundane was a good word for it. My recruiter I talked to told me I might be more competitive if I were to purchase a large jet type rating (320/737 etc) and to reapply after that....I was floored. Ive been a; sim instructor/ sim examiner, DPE, I have thousands of TPIC etc. I dunno.

Could you describe that person in PM to me? One of my few good friends (and former student) is one of the leads over there and that doesn't sound like the guidance they're given. You may have spoken to a rogue if the above is an accurate description of your experience.

 

[Hacker15e]

News?

I wish.

 

[Hacker15e]

Sure. Is it worth standing in line for 2-3 hours? It depends.

It seems the goal of these job fairs are to entice the business to invite you to an interview. If you already have one lined up, everything else is a bonus.

I ask because another pilot I was discussing this with suggested that there was no possible benefit -- and only negatives -- to doing so.

The rationale was:
- Recruiters might be unhappy that you took up their time/attention that they could have otherwise been giving to people wanting to get an interview, and
- You'd open yourself up to making a bad impression and perhaps compromising your interview, since that is probably the only circumstance a recruiter would take any action with respect to your name and resume.

While those seem valid to me, I thought it would be a good time for an interviewee to talk with recruiters and bounce some of their answers to questions off people involved in the hiring process with a lot less risk than in the interview panel room. There's also a chance that one of the folks a future interviewee speaks to at a job fair is actually someone that might be interviewing them, and it is an opportunity to make a good first impression that might benefit the later interview.

Just wondering what the hive's thought was.

 

[falconvalley]

Imo, it's not the job fair itself that would get you an interview, it's what happens there. Otherwise, there would be no job fair. I've gone to 4 of them over the years. The job fair that got me my current job was meant to specifically pinpoint those of us who wanted the job. Otherwise, they would have just asked my former company to leave an interview sign-up sheet on our break room table.