I am starting to feel one of the damned! Writing to airlines that first deny they have jobs, then they recruit a week later. Or they say you haven't enough experience, multi time, type rating etc and then you find out through the grapevine that they have recruited someone the next week ...with a third of your experience!
Getting that first job is a lottery unless you know someone on the inside track who can plead your case for when a vacancy does occur. Fair? No... but with supply exceeding demand by a factor of ten who cares.
In my opinion, the shambolic recruitment processes and opaque short termism create the constant bother that all the airlines complain about. They have only themselves to blame. Transparent recruiting processes would stop recruiters being mithered all the time by wannabes.
Meanwhile I plod away sending cvs and trying to follow up with calls to no avail. Am I downhearted?
Too bloody right.