Has your school network helped find employment?
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: all over Europe
Age: 40
Posts: 109
Likes: 0
Received 2 Likes
on
1 Post
Has your school network helped find employment?
Hi everybody,
I am trying to make some decisions and would like to know from your personal experience.
Those of you who are actually employed as pilots: did the network you built at school help you find jobs? I dont mean the promises that some schools make about their good reputation alone will land you a job. More the people you meet and bond with through training.
I have some schools to choose from and could divide them in two rough groups, well known integrated schools with a lot of flying alumni and students from cadet programs, and the other smaller schools with quality training for a good price.
So please gentlemen, did your friends and contacts from training help you get interviews, or is everybody on their own anyway and one might as well save some money? In my case, the difference might well finance an ATR or Dash rating, so what weighs heavier?
I am trying to make some decisions and would like to know from your personal experience.
Those of you who are actually employed as pilots: did the network you built at school help you find jobs? I dont mean the promises that some schools make about their good reputation alone will land you a job. More the people you meet and bond with through training.
I have some schools to choose from and could divide them in two rough groups, well known integrated schools with a lot of flying alumni and students from cadet programs, and the other smaller schools with quality training for a good price.
So please gentlemen, did your friends and contacts from training help you get interviews, or is everybody on their own anyway and one might as well save some money? In my case, the difference might well finance an ATR or Dash rating, so what weighs heavier?
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Colchester
Age: 40
Posts: 454
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Has your school network helped find employment?
A friend of mine in the air cadets gave me the nod that the company I now fly for needed pilots:-I'd never heard if the company before and of course I got the contract off my own back, but he at least let me know of it!
Buuut...air cadets is hardly a training organisation in the sense you are talking, sorry!
Avoid buying a rating yourself if you really can. It won't make you more employable, and just land you in more debt.
Buuut...air cadets is hardly a training organisation in the sense you are talking, sorry!
Avoid buying a rating yourself if you really can. It won't make you more employable, and just land you in more debt.
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: all over Europe
Age: 40
Posts: 109
Likes: 0
Received 2 Likes
on
1 Post
Its not that I want to - but we all know that it might be necessary. Anyhow, I'm far from there.
Right now I need to understand if the expensive schools really are valuable because of the many alumni and airline cadets you get to know. Maybe also they have a better standing at job fairs or whatever. Stuff like that, getting inside a recruiting environment and getting myself known is really the only reason for me to choose them.
Other than that, I have 2 other options, not cheapo schools but long time operating, solid middle size schools with good pass rates, offering a relatively fast modular route for considerably less money than integrated places like Oxford, Intercockpit or whatever the names.
Right now I need to understand if the expensive schools really are valuable because of the many alumni and airline cadets you get to know. Maybe also they have a better standing at job fairs or whatever. Stuff like that, getting inside a recruiting environment and getting myself known is really the only reason for me to choose them.
Other than that, I have 2 other options, not cheapo schools but long time operating, solid middle size schools with good pass rates, offering a relatively fast modular route for considerably less money than integrated places like Oxford, Intercockpit or whatever the names.
