Some post career fair observations from a friend

Derg said:
It's far more than two minutes. Unless you brought up that you're out on parole for a drug felony and only have a private pilots license so the recruiter did an RTO.
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Please tell me this really happened. I’m LOVIN these delta career fairs!!!

Kick your foot up to cross your legs- strike 1

Ankle monitor on that leg- strike 2&3
 
Roger Roger said:
Thanks for passing on these tips from your friend.

On a side note, I'm taking bets on how long before this turns into a gnash cluster :(
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1800 Pacific.

It'll be people that didn't have any experience at one of the events presuming it's just an OBAP/WAI/NGPA career fair and pontificating on how the system is rigged and mysterious.
 
AAPalmTree said:
Please tell me this really happened. I’m LOVIN these delta career fairs!!!

Kick your foot up to cross your legs- strike 1

Ankle monitor on that leg- strike 2&3
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Nah, it was probably more like "I've just started on my bachelors degree this year, but I already fly your passengers". Neeeeeeext!
 
Derg said:
1800 Pacific.

It'll be people that didn't have any experience at one of the events presuming it's just an OBAP/WAI/NGPA career fair and pontificating on how the system is rigged and mysterious.
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I will say I enjoyed my most recent interview experience. They bought me Chinese food. Either I passed the "this guy doesn't seem like a complete tool" test, or they were really desperate, I'm not sure which!
 
Roger Roger said:
I will say I enjoyed my most recent interview experience. They bought me Chinese food. Either I passed the "this guy doesn't seem like a complete tool" test, or they were really desperate, I'm not sure which!
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As long as you didn't. "Well," (pause), "Sir, I assessed the situation, circled in my team and using TEM, brought the situation to an agreeable conclusion" I'm sure you did great!
 
Derg said:
Nah, it was probably more like "I've just started on my bachelors degree this year, but I already fly your passengers". Neeeeeeext!
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Thanks for your advice on this in previous postings. Stopped me from making an embarrassing mistake!
 
Thank's for the advice. I'm definitely guilty of over doing it on the time grid. I'm glad I got the opportunity to go, I got a lot of good resume tips that will hopefully help in the future. I did find it ironic and sort of bold for the group of guys in line to be complaining about minorities getting a call before anyone else as if I wasn't standing within earshot of them. Can't please everyone though.
 
Being that this was my first job fair, and I was probably the least experienced there (1600TT), I had a wonderful experience. My recruiter was extremely helpful even though we both knew my times weren't competitive yet. I got some good advice that should help in the future.
 
Derg said:
Easy on the consultant prep or be HYPER careful with who you go with. Hot dang, when my friend kept getting the same question of "So, what made YOU want to work for SouthernJets" time and time again, then commiserating with other frustrated recruiters getting the same question and certain disingenuous answers, the recruiter is going to lose confidence that you're not being frank
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I can promise you that it wasn’t us but I am not surprised though. Lots of sheep. All a recruiter wants you to be is yourself, not some programmed robot.
 
I had a great time and received very positive feedback from the recruiter I met. Very excited for what the future may hold for my family and myself.
 
I followed the advice of "just be yourself" and had a fantastic time. Tried to tell my story, and just had an all around good time, it was more like a conversation than a meet and greet. Honestly, after hearing "Well that was a waste of time, they only talked to me for 3 minutes!" I wasn't sure what to expect... My experience was so polar opposite though. Recruiter was really cool, and gave me some good advice on what to work on. I also talked to a surprising number of people who told me they had no questions for their recruiter. Really? Here you have a recruiter in front of you with your resume in hand, and you can't think of anything to ask them? Somehow when there's an info session everybody's hand shoots up some individual situation with a parking ticket out of state in 1994 but talking to a recruiter there is not a single question individualistic to your background or app?
Anyhow, it was a great event, and I was surprised with how efficiently it ran. It was also my first time at the flight museum, so that was a great way to kill time. Props to all who put in hard work to make it happen.
 
Aero Crew Solutions said:
I can promise you that it wasn’t us but I am not surprised though. Lots of sheep. All a recruiter wants you to be is yourself, not some programmed robot.
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My friend can tell you who it was if you'd like but he knows it wasn't you. Certain keywords leg to certain questions and it was confirmed who it was. $500? Hot damn, a lot of great candidates talked their way into "good grief, I can't sit in a cockpit with this for a six day Europe trip" by spoken textbloc.

Be yourself. Don't be a robot. Don't walk your recruiter through your resume. If asked what time it is, don't build a watch. If I want to learn about Swiss movements, I'll certainly ask. Entitlement is the kiss of death — some people presume a shortage and arrive expecting the recruitment team to salivate over them like Mesa did.

Overall my friend says the quality of the candidates was much higher than the previous job fair and certainly better than OBAP 2016 and WAI 2017.
 
Dphoenix said:
I also talked to a surprising number of people who told me they had no questions for their recruiter. Really? Here you have a recruiter in front of you with your resume in hand, and you can't think of anything to ask them?
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My friend got that a lot which he would say, "Well, you're on our campus, you flew all the way here, there's nothing you're curious about or anything you're nervous about disclosing on the resume? This is your time."
 
I thought it was pretty well put together. I really like the company I used for career fair and interview prep. They were big on not sounding canned...just have a casual conversation and don’t lie about your motivations. Couldn’t imagine having to sit through the 100x some applicant lied that the reason they wanted to go to Delta is because it was their favorite childhood airline when they flew on a delta bird for their first vacation.

Just pretend you’re having a conversation with another pilot in the crew room or the FBO. Be professional but loose.

I wish I was a little less rigid but not bad for my first career fair. I wish I had a couple more questions for my recruiter but to me most of the question asking isn’t genuine. I know people there. I know what the job entails and I’m not going to ask you some generic canned question just so it sounds like I have questions for you. Should of had a couple more genuine questions though.

My two cents.


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jhugz said:
I know what the job entails and I’m not going to ask you some generic canned question just so it sounds like I have questions for you. Should of had a couple more genuine questions though.
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Nothing wrong with asking topical questions about the company

Changes in Pacific strategy with the A350 coming on line.

Ramifications of CSeries tariff and Airbus’s buyout of the program.

Stuff like that.
 
Derg said:
#Zachfacts.

Unless you've been to the event, you're not entitled to your own facts.
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I just found it slightly absurd that no two captains they'd flown with have had the same background. Statistically it's almost impossible. And I wasn't talking about the event at all. Not sure how you got any of that from my post.
 
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