Not so great American Eagle interview...lack there of actually

I was under the impression that the regionals were desperate to fill classes. Perhaps not.

bunk22 I heard Avjet @ KBUR was looking. I know a girl there that knows another guy that hires people.
 
I certainly didn't bomb the sim, do don't know. My attitude was good, meaning I certainly didn't act like i was too good. I'm not upset not getting hired either but want to know why. I don't think it's an over qualified thing either. They saw or found something they didn't like, maybe they saw my Fb page!
 
Do NOT take it personal.

Trust me, some regionals would have done me exactly the same way.

"Wow, good experience...Good logboos...Sharp candidate... Whoah, you're just going to up and cruise the second when FDX/UPS/DAL/UAL/ETC calls"

Don't take it personal, Bunk.

It's more to do with "He's a top candidate, he's not going to stick around this joint" than it does anything else, trust me.
 
Sorry to hear man. I've always been a believer in the over-qualification view point up until recently when I've found myself on the other side of the interview desk. After seeing HR bring in and hire 10,000 to 20,000 hr ex Comair pilots and veteran ex-military pilots, I've found out that their view point is that majors aren't hiring much and there is a training agreement in place if you leave early. Eagle knows your qualifications before they call you in so unless there is a mistake, you aren't getting calling into an interview to waste their time or yours. As far as the sim ride, they aren't looking for perfection so if you didn't bomb it and feel like you did alright, then you passed. If you made it to after lunch then it wasn't a logbook issue. I don't know, now you have me wondering....
 
I'm with you Bunk, I'd be livid not knowing why I got denied. Crappy hand man. More fish, etc...
 
It baffles me why anyone would consider going to Eagle with all that is happening with XJet and now Republic getting capacity agreements.
 
I'm not taking it personal but how does one get better or improve or change a fault? My learning what the issue is. I don't debrief a bad flight without telling a student what he did wrong. I want to learn Jedi.
 
bunk22 said:
I'm not taking it personal but how does one get better or improve or change a fault? My learning what the issue is. I don't debrief a bad flight without telling a student what he did wrong. I want to learn Jedi.
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I think it has more to do with an assumption on their part that you would bolt for a better gig in 6 months.

And let's be honest, I would if too if I were you...
 
I too toyed with the over qualification idea, however agree with the statement that the company wouldn't waste the time. I was at Rjet on Tuesday, and I thought it went great, until receiving the tbnt email today.

Lucky me, I drew the HR Manager Hope. Perhaps my answers to her WWYD questions sounded too concrete, as I was careful to pause for a moment, in order for my answers to sound anything but 'canned'.
 
bunk22 said:
And I would in a heartbeat :)
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Me too.

Someone unofficially said I hadn't a chance at Midwest Express because I had a four year degree, early 20's and no violations. They'd just have to retrain after I gave my two week notice eventually.
 
I don't understand how eagle can be picky right now. Don't they need to hire like 600 pilot this year? I don't think there are 600 pilots who want to go there.
 
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You know what ATPs don't do? Depart holding with the boards out, dumps on, saying nothing more than "commencing (w/ state). They also don't accelerate to 4 bills to make the fix w/n 10 seconds. F those guys Bunk. There are many fish in the sea
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Agreed 100 freaking percent. It actually makes me mad that you would even WANT to interview at a craphole such as Eagle. I have never understood a worthless regional like AE, and how they treat their interview candidates. I have never agreed with the "you are over qualified for this job" notion, but I am willing to bet you were turned down because they don't want somebody with your experience sitting in the right seat. They want guys at their hiring minimums.

Edit: I didn't read past the OP, so clearly most think it is an over-qualification thing.
 
Strongly suspect overqualification issue as well. They want people who are going to be excited about languishing in the right seat of an RJ for years. That's not necessarily a bad thing to be, but I would suspect that it's not you.
 
juxtapilot said:
I don't understand how eagle can be picky right now. Don't they need to hire like 600 pilot this year? I don't think there are 600 pilots who want to go there.
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Understaffed Eagle makes it that much easier to move more flying elsewhere. With pinnacle parking a bunch of RJ's, they'll be up for lease cheap to the lowest bidder soon.
 
Dunno. At some of the other regionals, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the people making the calls didn't even know the people making the hiring decisions, but I'd think that Eagle would have its poop together a bit more than that.
 
I mean, who knows. Maybe he farted in in the waiting room or he looks like someone's ex-husband or was mistaken for someone who cut someone off in traffic on the way to work (or, yeah, maybe someone heard him say "bottomfeeder"). Whatever the case, it's one interview. Get back on that horse.
 
My point to most of this was to share the experience, I really don't care about not getting hired by American Eagle. I certainly would have liked to have known the reason for being booted just to find out what I did wrong...paperwork, my breath, my good looks!!, etc so that I could improve for the next. Like I've said, if this were FedEx, yeah, I'd be upset, but not for a regional.
 
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