Pilot Resumes

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also, don't staple or paperclip your coverletter/resume together, leave them loose from eachother

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Yup, that's why I send off my cover letter, resume, & job history in a clear 'report cover'. You can get them pretty cheap at Office Max or even Target. It's a clear plastic folder that you put papers in, and it 'binds' everything with a black plastic spine. That way if the company wants to separate anything, it's easy to do so, and it doesn't damage any of the papers.
 
Office Depot has a nice kit by Southworth available it includes:

25 Sheets of 100% cotton Resume Paper (an Ivory Color)
5 Matching Resume Folders (a 2 pocket folder to hold your resume)
5 Matching Resume Mailing Envelopes (A full size envelope to put your resume folder in)

The entire kit is like $12 and looks VERY VERY professional. I would recommend it!

I couldn't find it on there website but they have it at the store in the paper section.
 
I actually saw the ivory colored resume paper and envelope kit offered by Southworth, and thought about getting it. However, I worried that the color might be a little on the "effeminate" side for a pilot's resume? My assumption would be that they want something lean, mean, strong, and conservative, i.e. white and maybe gray.

Conversely, I do want the resume to stand out. I rather like Tenney's idea of the bright white.

Not sure.
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My resumes have always been on plain white printer paper, and I've done just fine. Of course, I haven't mailed that many resumes out. Most of my resumes and cover letters historically have been submitted by fax or e-mail. If you e-mail you never print to begin with, and if you fax, plain copy paper works best because it feeds through your fax machine easily and transmits clearly.

By the way ... my advice to any and all professional pilots (and the aspiring professional pilots) out there: buy your own fax machine. No matter who you work for or how senior you are, you never know what can happen. Case in point, I was chief flight instructor at my flight school back in early '02, thought I was sitting pretty ... and the company called all the CFIs in one day and said they had cancelled the insurance on the airplanes and shut the flight school down ... on the spot, no notice to us or our students. Similar things have happened with corporate flight departments or charter operators. Airlines sometimes have to furlough, or even go out of business altogether.

I bought an $80 fax machine at Staples, use it on the same line as my home phone, and it has paid for itself several times over just by making it fast and easy to send a resume almost anywhere.
 
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buy your own fax machine.


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We got an all in one (printer/scanner/copier/fax) a few months ago, and it has been invaluable! Everything from making copies of reciepts for mail-in rebates, to faxing in health insurance claim forms. It is SO worth it to have the ability to send/recieve faxes & make copies! I highly recommend picking one up! (Not to mention scanning pics to post on Jetcareers
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Good point!

If not a fax machine or all in one unit, than a scanner, good printer &/or an eFax account (eFax accounts are free if you don't care about the area code you're assigned).

Best of luck to all,

JR
 
I use MightyFax . Works great, and I can fax any document from within it's specific application! It installs as a printer driver, so if you can print it, you can fax it!!!
 
The paper is not as important as the FORMAT.

It needs to be easy to read and simple. KISS is the rule! I know Kit Darby is a popular target for ridicule, but the Air Inc resume book for $25 is worth the money!
 
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