Social Media and the job hunt.

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Screaming_Emu said:
I've wondered for a while...what exactly does RST stand for?
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Ready Set Takeoff. Great resource to for the JKT at Delta and FedEx. The original FB group was pretty selective, someone needed to vouch for you that you did have an interview scheduled. Now there is an RST page for just about every airline and it's just all gossip and "do this to get a job"...
 
Derg said:
The problem with the "do this to get a job" approach is that it's often incorrect and makes a lot of great applicants stumble.
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My first round with Southern Jets I followed the ECIC A + B = job formula. Didn't go so well for me. Second round I threw away everything ECIC taught me and realized you literally just have to be yourself...much better outcome.
 
I had a guy who I flew with(I can attest to his cockpit skills) ask me for a recommendation. No problem I thought. He has applications out to the Big 3 and all other majors. Told me he had no luck even getting a call. I asked him to send me his info and I would try and help him. I look at his email address and it's "chickmagnet_99@something.com". I called him and asked if this is the email address he used on his apps? "Yes, is it a problem. I've had that for like umpteen years." 40 something old man.
 
Derg said:
I can't "foot stomp" this enough, but you really don't want to 'troll' an airline on Facebook or Twitter if you're an applicant.

When you shoot yourself in the foot, the gunshot is silent, the projectile enters your foot painlessly and you will never know why the call never came.

I'm kind of shocked I have to inform professional adults about this.
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Good way to weed out the geniuses. If you need guidance on how not to do this, you shouldn't be at an airline or you're not ready to be at an airline.
 
Soul Brotha' said:
I had a guy who I flew with(I can attest to his cockpit skills) ask me for a recommendation. No problem I thought. He has applications out to the Big 3 and all other majors. Told me he had no luck even getting a call. I asked him to send me his info and I would try and help him. I look at his email address and it's "chickmagnet_99@something.com". I called him and asked if this is the email address he used on his apps? "Yes, is it a problem. I've had that for like umpteen years." 40 something old man.
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PantyDroppr6969@aol.com is not an effective self-marketing tool in the professional realm!
 
Derg said:
I can't "foot stomp" this enough, but you really don't want to 'troll' an airline on Facebook or Twitter if you're an applicant.

When you shoot yourself in the foot, the gunshot is silent, the projectile enters your foot painlessly and you will never know why the call never came.

I'm kind of shocked I have to inform professional adults about this.
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Then why do you bother to inform adults about this? Honest question.

Because if someone lacks the basic common sense to realize the above, to where you have to remind them or inform them of it, is that really the kind of moron you want at your shop?

As cptchia said, let the herd naturally thin itself. Holding people by the hand step by step for basic stuff they should already know or being unable to follow clearly stated instructions, is wasting both your and the company's time, other than any entertainment value. Save the help for the in-depth stuff, rather than wasting it trying to protect people from crap they should already know in life. If guys want to clear themselves VFR direct to the circular file, so be it, cleared as filed.

The pilot shortage hasn't come to desperation levels for you guys there yet, has it?
 
When it comes to preparing pilots for an interview we do not give guys anything in advance because we want to see the cold version of you and nothing else. We do not provide outlines, checklists, or audio tapes.

We do tell you to write down your stories in a bullet point format similar to an emergency checklist. The whole point to an interview is to tell a story to a recruiter about yourself USING YOUR OWN WORDS, not ABC or XYZ. The recruiters know right away when you are giving them a canned answer. Smart recruiters will follow up with another question based on what you just said. Then the deer in the headlights look occurs or you are able to answer the follow up question. Video record yourself speaking. It works.

To tag on @Derg post. Lock down all of your social media accounts. Don't post online, especially on the Southernjets FB page.
 
"You must have been the pilot flying with Jeff because he told the exact same story!" :)
 
MikeD said:
Then why do you bother to inform adults about this? Honest question.

Because if someone lacks the basic common sense to realize the above, to where you have to remind them or inform them of it, is that really the kind of moron you want at your shop?

As cptchia said, let the herd naturally thin itself. Holding people by the hand step by step for basic stuff they should already know or being unable to follow clearly stated instructions, is wasting both your and the company's time, other than any entertainment value. Save the help for the in-depth stuff, rather than wasting it trying to protect people from crap they should already know in life. If guys want to clear themselves VFR direct to the circular file, so be it, cleared as filed.

The pilot shortage hasn't come to desperation levels for you guys there yet, has it?
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Me? I'm officially just a webmaster at Jetcareers.com

However, I'm got some vested interest in the next generation of pilots realizing that the current generations world of memes and general "effery" online basically becomes part of the trove of information when any HR team goes "Let's plug this candidates name into Google and see what we come up with" and the results usually aren't good.

Pseudonyms are a panacea, trust me.

You can build a fairly robust profile of the 'real' applicant in short order and it's often not flattering.
 
Soul Brotha' said:
I had a guy who I flew with(I can attest to his cockpit skills) ask me for a recommendation. No problem I thought. He has applications out to the Big 3 and all other majors. Told me he had no luck even getting a call. I asked him to send me his info and I would try and help him. I look at his email address and it's "chickmagnet_99@something.com". I called him and asked if this is the email address he used on his apps? "Yes, is it a problem. I've had that for like umpteen years." 40 something old man.
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So what's the problem?:cool:
 
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