Job hunting- Where to spend that extra money?
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Location: Looking forward to returning to Japan soon but in the meantime continuing the never ending search for a bad bottle of Red!
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a brand new CPL holder shows up at an operator in Darwin dressed in thongs and shorts.
Right... now that I've got that off my chest; I think I can assume that you are not joking and that some clown has done precisely that!
I lived and worked in Darwin from mid '79 to early December '81 (not in Aviation) but I shared a house with a then Coastwatch Pilot (Don L) and the Tropical rig for everyone was a shirt, trousers or proper shorts, not denim, long socks if wearing shorts, and shoes. If you turned up to an interview not wearing the above, you would not have even been given the time of day!
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.....what exactly is "extra money"? 
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Instead of spending time and money driving north, why don't you grab some mates in a sinilar situation and rent a C182 or better still any 200 series aircraft and go door knocking. The very least you can say you have flown to remote areas and have experience in "the bush". Tbere are private owners that will hire out their pride and joy, you just need to go and find them.
Tough decision to spend that much money when really you shouldn’t have to. Yes it is important to stand out from the crowd however there are other ways. It’s all about attitude.
Here we go... back in the day didn’t have to pay for that elusive 210 time, if you had the attitude and persistence you’d crack a job. Yeah you may have had to clean a hangar, wash a plane, but then you’d find yourself with a job. The company would then invest time with ICUS whilst on revenue charters.
This paying to get a look in is crap. It’s like airline P2F, whoops a can of worms there.
Problem is damned if you do damned if you don’t!
A great time to look for a job, get to where you want to be, get a job doing anything, get out to the airport. Still not easy but ATTITUDE AND PERSISTENCE.
Once settled find a plane to private hire like you did back home, get familiar and have fun anyway. You’ll probably have a job before having to do that.
Here we go... back in the day didn’t have to pay for that elusive 210 time, if you had the attitude and persistence you’d crack a job. Yeah you may have had to clean a hangar, wash a plane, but then you’d find yourself with a job. The company would then invest time with ICUS whilst on revenue charters.
This paying to get a look in is crap. It’s like airline P2F, whoops a can of worms there.
Problem is damned if you do damned if you don’t!
A great time to look for a job, get to where you want to be, get a job doing anything, get out to the airport. Still not easy but ATTITUDE AND PERSISTENCE.
Once settled find a plane to private hire like you did back home, get familiar and have fun anyway. You’ll probably have a job before having to do that.
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When you hear that a recent entry-level Line Pilot job in Broome advertised on AFAP gets over 120 applicants in 4 days you have to recognise it is very hard to land that initial position. I wonder how many applicants an entry-level flight instructor position gets - does spending another $20K realistically increase your chances of employment?
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When you hear that a recent entry-level Line Pilot job in Broome advertised on AFAP gets over 120 applicants in 4 days you have to recognise it is very hard to land that initial position. I wonder how many applicants an entry-level flight instructor position gets - does spending another $20K realistically increase your chances of employment?
Don't let that surprise you.
It's 120 applicants that applied by the click of a mouse, at home from their personal computer.
It takes a lot of character for a person to leave their capital city and sit on a plane and head to Darwin or Broome and hang around for months,
hoping to get a job.
A lot of people think about, talk about, heading North, but don't end up doing it, because it's too hard, to leave the comforts of their home/city.
I believe if a person really wants to get into a Northern Australia charter operator, starting on C 210's, it will eventually happen for a person.
A person needs to get into any type of non-aviation work when they arrive there (unless they immediately get into a flying job), a person needs
to stay current, whilst not flying and get to know people/companies (networking).
It could take 1 month, 2, 3, 6, 9 or 12 months to score a job, it depends also, how a person looks, personality, also if they have the ability to do
the flying job.
Staying current, paying accommodation and other living expenses, costs money, but it can be done.
Darwin is a great place to meet locals and tourists from all around the world.
