Balpa Eoc
If you have MC experience, well worth attending! If you expect to walk straight into an interview, think again!
If you have an interview in the pipeline with an airline who has a stand...definately go! you will get to meet other company pilots, get to chat with them and get a real insight into company life, maybe even the interviewer themselves!
To be honest though, if you are a newly qualified CPL/IR ....(and my friends all shared the same opinion), all this did for us was put us in a deeper state of depression! I dont wish to sound negative, but as a newly qualified CPL/IR you are in a room full of wannabe's (literally hundreds) all in the same boat. With the introduction, they ask the room for the level of experience, one or two hands go up for 5000hrs plus, over 2000 hrs...a few more, over 500, a few more....under 500......almost the entire room!!! It is the wake up call you just dont want to see, the realisation of just how many people there are with the same level of experience after so few jobs.
It is certainly well worth attending to get an insight into certain companys growth plans, recruitment plans etc, and meeting the people to whom you have written so many times....but I just cant help wondering if i really did get much out of it!
I am sure that some people that attend do get more from it, and I am really pleased for them, especially if it leads to that illusive job..!
Attended in 2005, out of 8 of us, all low time experience newly qualified, we are all now in paid flying jobs, none of which with any connection to EOC! Decide for yourself!