@Vone Rotate
Your networking question...you donīt have to be necessarily good friends
with the owner/flight ops manager etc. BUT if they see something in your CV what they like, they might also invite you for an interview e.g for corporate aviation, if you are/were in the same field like your prospective employer or any other common ground "creating" familiarity. As some posters have pointed out, in smaller companies, the recruitment criteria can be highly subjective whereas bigger companies like Netjets have their established standard recruitment procedure.
Cecco