All well and good.
How then do you see that on a piece of paper (covering letter and resume) in deciding who to interview? Can you determine attitude and values from an covering letter and resume?
I am biased here as after a dozen failed applications I cannot make an interview. I have watched substantially lesser people not only get an interview but then a job.
I've done all the exams and more (mechanical and avionics) and passed very well but beyond that I do not make the cut for the interview pile. My training organisation has been unhelpful in telling me what I need to do differently. I fail to see how showing up, doing and understanding the work, getting on with most people, a great student profile (of which I have seen) does not translate into more openings.
It does not help that industry is now telling me I have done the "wrong" set of exams (and that my training organisation did not at the outset say that this course really only suits major airlines and bigger operators). I may do the other exams but the time and cost are barriers I really don't to have to climb again right now.
This is proving depressing, frustrating and I'm angry at a system where the best, most interested and keenest cannot get start. I've reached a point where I wonder what is wrong with me and whether this is the right industry for me.
Cheers