FYI
I am not going to be too specific… to protect my identity (just in case they ever do feel the need to give me one of their valued recommendations, I won’t hold my breath LOL!!!)
I consider my results at Oxford as more than reasonable.. I passed all ground school exams with and average between 80 to 85% (cant be too specific) had a couple of resits that were passed at the next try. On the flying side of things I passed all flight test's first time and have a 1st series IR. I thought my report from the school read quite well, I did not cause any trouble and got on with everyone both OAT staff and students. Even though my report reads quite well, it does not read well enough for the OAT graduate services to consider putting me forward to any airlines. So apart from a couple of % and resits at ground school, I was not that far away from the unwritten rules I mentioned previously.
When you first graduate you call the careers team weekly all upbeat but as time progresses you realise they are just fobbing you off and that you are just wasting your time and that if you didn’t call them, they certainly wouldn’t call you!!
To date I have still not had a single interview, having the Oxford APP name on my CV has counted for absolutely nothing. If you have to send out CV’s on your own it really is a total waste of time, even getting a rejection letter seems like an achievement! Around 2 years on (not being specific on time) I never once got a phone call from their careers team, I hope that some how some day I can achieve that break myself.
So what do I do in the mean time? Well you have to live and somehow pay back a mountain of debt so I now working in a office from 9-5 and 4 evenings through the week I work at my local tesco's stacking shelves. This is just so i can keep on top off my debt and trying so very hard to save some more money so that i can start a FIC to keep aviation experience current, its hard to spend another 6k on a job that will not pay, but what else can I do, Im on my own. I have spoken to local companies and they have basically said that once qualified they “may” be able to give me a few sunday afternoon students.
The only advice I can give you is make sure that you are meet or are well above their unwritten rules, otherwise you’ll be in a very similar boat as are a lot of APP graduates
Rob’d