Well if they sent 800 applications they need to have a look at their CV. And the over all picture that the companys are recieving with the CV.
To many people are using stock CV's and standard covering letters. You need to put time and effort into each letter sent.
The standard format pilots CV should be pretty sparce. And the personal interests and previous jobs are pretty much the only difference between every 250 hour pilot. The only place you can really sell yourself is in the covering letter. A well researched personal covering letter shows you have made the effort to know a bit about the company and what they operate. Even to the sado point of finding out some personal interests of the bloke you are sending it to and including them. e.g If you know the guy used to be a competion gliding champion get a couple of lessons and include on your CV that you are currently learning to glide. £30 pounds well spent because appart from improving your CV its bloody good fun.
Anyone who has sent 100+ applications really does need to have a look at what they are doing. As per say they have the same as another 3000 pilots out there chasing the same jobs. What is different about their CV compared to the people that do get the interview?.
Stick 737 on the cv it hasn't really changed it that much apart from cutting you out of the turbo prop and taxi market. Stick a FI on it and an additional 1000hours. That kicks you into a market of low hundreds instead of thousands plus your current. Then stuff like showing you have peoples skills comes in which is usually pretty easy for an Instructor to show on a CV.
And the is maybe a miss conception out there what they are actually looking for in a sim check. As well as being able to fly they are also looking for the speed you are able to learn. Which is the reason why quite often you will do the profile twice with a debrief in the middle. They are looking for improvment. Some old crusty farts out there advise that you arn't quite as hot on the tolerances on the first trip. The turn it on for the second one. But I am sure most sim instructors are aware of this ploy. Then there is the CRM aspects which are very hard to compare.
And 500 pounds spent going to proffesional aviation CV writer who can give you advice on what people are looking for and the key words to use is alot better money spent than 25K on a Jet type rating.
I think pilot pete on PPrune used to run a company which dealt with advice on CV's and interviews.
MJ
Last edited by mad_jock; 15th Nov 2005 at 09:15.