Swayne coming to a 121 near you

Dacuj said:
Do you know how much work it takes to put together the incredible set of videos and documentation he has on his YouTube channel? It's not easy, I'll say that. Also, have you ever worked in or closely with recruiting? It's a very difficult job trying to sort out the amount of resumes and determining the right set of candidates. At Envoy especially. The amount of people clamoring to get into the cadet program is staggering in and of itself. Everybody and their brother are attracted to the program because of working for American Airlines. That is a full time job for a full staff as it is and you have an overworked recruiting department of a handful of people trying to fill the current open slots along with trying to plan for the future with the right candidates. Swayne has done every pilot at Envoy a service by putting out these videos and deserves a huge thanks from the pilot group.
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Well, we've found Swayne's account.
 
Dacuj said:
Do you know how much work it takes to put together the incredible set of videos and documentation he has on his YouTube channel? It's not easy, I'll say that. Also, have you ever worked in or closely with recruiting? It's a very difficult job trying to sort out the amount of resumes and determining the right set of candidates. At Envoy especially. The amount of people clamoring to get into the cadet program is staggering in and of itself. Everybody and their brother are attracted to the program because of working for American Airlines. That is a full time job for a full staff as it is and you have an overworked recruiting department of a handful of people trying to fill the current open slots along with trying to plan for the future with the right candidates. Swayne has done every pilot at Envoy a service by putting out these videos and deserves a huge thanks from the pilot group.
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Hmm, ok so running a youtube channel is hard. I assume he is monetized?

You didn't tell me why pilots at the beagle should be grateful for his channel. You told me youtubing is hard, and recruiting is hard. neither thing I'll take issue with, but that in no way tells me his channel is of benefit to the average pilot at envoy
 
YouTubing isn't hard, by the way. You can pay someone in Mexico about $4/hr to do all of the video editing, posting, tagging, etc. All he has to do is record the raw content. Might cost him a few dozen dollars a month to have someone do all of the work, while he's meanwhile monetizing it and profiting.
 
SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
YouTubing isn't hard, by the way. You can pay someone in Mexico about $4/hr to do all of the video editing, posting, tagging, etc. All he has to do is record the raw content. Might cost him a few dozen dollars a month to have someone do all of the work, while he's meanwhile monetizing it and profiting.
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Todd, come on now...there are some really good channels that I'd imagine are hard work. They involve lots of research and wall written scripts. The pay off is the content they produce is really good, informative, insightful, and entertaining.

Swayne's channel is none of those things. So, you are correct there.
 
poser765 said:
Todd, come on now...there are some really good channels that I'd imagine are hard work. They involve lots of research and wall written scripts. The pay off is the content they produce is really good, informative, insightful, and entertaining.

Swayne's channel is none of those things. So, you are correct there.
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True, I was only addressing the actual act of Youtubing itself. Creativity and intelligence going into the content is an entirely different story.
 
Dacuj said:
Do you know how much work it takes to put together the incredible set of videos and documentation he has on his YouTube channel? It's not easy, I'll say that. Also, have you ever worked in or closely with recruiting? It's a very difficult job trying to sort out the amount of resumes and determining the right set of candidates. At Envoy especially. The amount of people clamoring to get into the cadet program is staggering in and of itself. Everybody and their brother are attracted to the program because of working for American Airlines. That is a full time job for a full staff as it is and you have an overworked recruiting department of a handful of people trying to fill the current open slots along with trying to plan for the future with the right candidates. Swayne has done every pilot at Envoy a service by putting out these videos and deserves a huge thanks from the pilot group.
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Dacuj said:
Do you know how much work it takes to put together the incredible set of videos and documentation he has on his YouTube channel? It's not easy, I'll say that. Also, have you ever worked in or closely with recruiting? It's a very difficult job trying to sort out the amount of resumes and determining the right set of candidates. At Envoy especially. The amount of people clamoring to get into the cadet program is staggering in and of itself. Everybody and their brother are attracted to the program because of working for American Airlines. That is a full time job for a full staff as it is and you have an overworked recruiting department of a handful of people trying to fill the current open slots along with trying to plan for the future with the right candidates. Swayne has done every pilot at Envoy a service by putting out these videos and deserves a huge thanks from the pilot group.
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Swayne, is that you?

Everyone and their brother is attracted to working for AA?

Hmm.... Ok
 
Someone should tell him regional recruiting in 2019 was an active pulse and required flight hours and you were hired. There was no nitpicky finding the "right candidates" for years at the regionals. It was a blood bath to hire everyone and anyone. And Envoy wasn't winning in the overall group of regional hiring.
 
tcco94 said:
Someone should tell him regional recruiting in 2019 was an active pulse and required flight hours and you were hired. There was no nitpicky finding the "right candidates" for years at the regionals. It was a blood bath to hire everyone and anyone. And Envoy wasn't winning in the overall group of regional hiring.
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For some carriers, yes. For Envoy, no. With the flow thru in place, the recruiting team was essentially having to vet candidates for American as they were hired to AA standards. Maybe not in hours or experience but in background. As an example, the "perfect" candidate graduated high school and immediately enrolled in a partner university that is part of the pipeline program. Said candidate sails through and gets high marks in flight training while obtaining the equivalent degree. Candidate graduates around the age of 22 on average and then instructs at said university until the high 1400 hour mark and is put through ATP/CTP by Envoy and goes online at the Voy after completion essentially beginning a life long career at American. The perfect candidates also found some time to volunteer at a charity or other organization to give back to the community. The ideal Envoy would be 100% pipeline graduates at some future date with no leftover lifers from years ago who got lucky after flying a Baron around West Texas for Virgil's Oil Bidness.

With the current pandemic and loss of traffic, American has led the pack in formulating a strategy to weather the downturn and to push ahead when traffic rebounds. Thus the flow through and pipeline program are only on a temporary hiatus.
 
Dacuj said:
With the current pandemic and loss of traffic, American has led the pack in formulating a strategy to weather the downturn and to push ahead when traffic rebounds. Thus the flow through and pipeline program are only on a temporary hiatus.
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Then why did American furlough 19,000 employees and are hemorrhaging 2 times+ the daily cash burn as it's rivals? Is that what you call "leading the pack"? I can think of a lot of airlines who have a lot better financial stability and staffing to recover from this in good position. American currently is not on that list.
 
Considering how many FOs try to be Instagram famous on their own I doubt it's that much of a hardship. Sure, he's polished, professional, probably does give some decent insight into the job for people that are curious and seems like a nice kid, but I kind of doubt when it comes down to pay and QOL issues and stuff the average line pilot cares about the guys at Envoy are like "thank god for Swayne!"
 
JordanD said:
Considering how many FOs try to be Instagram famous on their own I doubt it's that much of a hardship. Sure, he's polished, professional, probably does give some decent insight into the job for people that are curious and seems like a nice kid, but I kind of doubt when it comes down to pay and QOL issues and stuff the average line pilot cares about the guys at Envoy are like "thank god for Swayne!"
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Bummer Swayne didn't get them a new contract when times were thriving. Now it will take another decade to get Envoy where they rightfully should be with a better contract
 
I don’t get YouTube at all.

Yea, there is a bit of original stuff that verges on interesting. And yea, a certain proportion of that verges on “dang, that’s pretty cool” (I’m looking at you Warhammer 40k lore).

But beyond that, it just seems like channel after channel that just completely rips off other people’s stuff. They wouldn’t be doing it if there wasn’t money involved, while people running their own stuff get shut down by the bots for copyright infringement from other people jacking their videos.
 
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