Originally Posted by
nickyfly
Hi, sorry to hear that, it must have been frustrating for you.
Have you got any interviews/managed to get a job once you got back into it?
Is it a problem if someone leaves aviation, that is a very expensive activity for the majority of people, keeps carrying on with their lives, to then come back when more favorable circumstances present?
Why would it look "suspicious" to a recruiter? lack of determination? weakness?
Airline wise - Yes I had a couple of interviews and a few online assessments, nothing came of them and thats when Covid happened.
When I revalidated everything it was marginally better, in that I did get those couple of airline interviews over the singular one I got when I first got my MEIR etc. There was also just a few more things to apply for as well.
Depends what you are gunning for. If you want to get an Instructor job I am sure that’s going to be a lot easier. I wasn’t really in a position to quit my well paying job to pay for FI rating to get a job that would pay less and require potentially moving. For an airline job that would have been worth the move.
I was grilled for the gap, I of course prepared, the idea of not having many opportunities when I first qualified and needing to take time to regroup some funds and get involved in another part of aviation to get a foot in the door etc seemed to be very alien to the recruiter.
When Covid hit and it was time to renew some bits again the market was messed up lockdowns and travel restriction's were everywhere and job situation was tenuous (was in aviation industry)it didn’t seem financially responsible to revalidate. I decided to pursue a normal job because I realized I had very little other skills other than those related to flying or aviation in general.
Then I realized in the real world you can get skills where companies actually want you! Maybe I’ll go back to at some point, but at least I’ll have something else to fall back on.
Who knows what the recruiters want or what they will penalise you for. They never give feedback (Although I requested and got my scorecards under GDPR rules, really had to push though) Its not like there are many of them shouting about how it all works in the background. You mainly hear from people that “made it” saying I did it you can too. Well never say never I guess but I would say let me hear what the others that didn’t “make it” have to say.
As for the scorecard, they either removed a lot of info or really couldn’t be bothered because it was no more than a couple of sentences in total (for 4 interviewers), and a literal numbered scoring system.