There are "outreach" programs, but don't confuse that with preferential consideration. Those programs are largely opportunities to network but they're not necessarily "exclusive". Lots of blonde hair and blue eyes at OBAP events and there are certainly a large number of dudes at a WIA event.
Get your name out there, keep talking about your goals because you never know who is listening.
Speaking of that, a couple years ago I'm drinking some coffee with a manager of pilot selection and another pilot was bitching a few tables away about the hiring process, how he deserved certain things because of his time a his present company and just coming off as a petulant kindergartener. Both look over, see the ID and laugh thinking about how if he was having a different conversation, he could have met the person that could absolutely "make it happen" but had MK-84'ed a bridge he didn't even realize existed.
Take any and every chance to make positive connections and network and you will have great career success. Best advice I could give to you is realize that it's a continuous process and that if you take the impression that "OK, I have a job, therefore I get to be an ass to my fellow trade-members", you may find yourself being a "lifer" at a level you didn't think your career would apex.
I see it everyday on the back channels.
Sent from my TRS-80
Get your name out there, keep talking about your goals because you never know who is listening.
Speaking of that, a couple years ago I'm drinking some coffee with a manager of pilot selection and another pilot was bitching a few tables away about the hiring process, how he deserved certain things because of his time a his present company and just coming off as a petulant kindergartener. Both look over, see the ID and laugh thinking about how if he was having a different conversation, he could have met the person that could absolutely "make it happen" but had MK-84'ed a bridge he didn't even realize existed.
Take any and every chance to make positive connections and network and you will have great career success. Best advice I could give to you is realize that it's a continuous process and that if you take the impression that "OK, I have a job, therefore I get to be an ass to my fellow trade-members", you may find yourself being a "lifer" at a level you didn't think your career would apex.
I see it everyday on the back channels.
Sent from my TRS-80