Question for aviation management professional
05-18-2014, 06:11 PM
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Question for aviation management professional
Hello I am an aviation management major and for a class I am taking I have a few questions I need answered!
As an aviation manager:
What kinds of documents or presentations do you need to produce?
How much time, on average, do you devote to communication on the job?
Do you have any advice about how to gain and improve the communication skills needed for this career?
Thanks for your help!
As an aviation manager:
What kinds of documents or presentations do you need to produce?
How much time, on average, do you devote to communication on the job?
Do you have any advice about how to gain and improve the communication skills needed for this career?
Thanks for your help!
05-19-2014, 02:26 AM
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I'm not really sure there is such a thing as an "aviation management professional". There are managers who work in aviation, but typically they come with the same training and/or experience found in managers in any other industry, ie MBA, accountant, finance, real-estate, etc.
From what I have observed, aviation organizations tend to hire for specific professional skills (see above) rather than looking for someone with existing aviation knowledge. Much like any other industry you can pick up aviation knowledge on the job, don't need to go to school for that. If you have a professional skill/degree and also have an aviation degree that might give you an edge.
Their working lives are about the same as other professionals, unless they happen to be in a chief pilot role in which case they get to go fly sometimes.
From what I have observed, aviation organizations tend to hire for specific professional skills (see above) rather than looking for someone with existing aviation knowledge. Much like any other industry you can pick up aviation knowledge on the job, don't need to go to school for that. If you have a professional skill/degree and also have an aviation degree that might give you an edge.
Their working lives are about the same as other professionals, unless they happen to be in a chief pilot role in which case they get to go fly sometimes.
05-19-2014, 05:58 AM
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My school has an Aviation Management major. A lot of the people there take business management, finance, accounting, and MIS classes. I had to take them too, even as a pro pilot major. One place that always seemed like a good networking opportunity for them was AAAE. I think it's the American Assoc. of Airport Executives. They hold a conference each year.
05-19-2014, 05:36 PM
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Much depends on what title you hold and the company in question. Director of Logistics? Director of Aviation? Chief Pilot? Management these days focuses primarily on budgets and a working knowledge of financial documents. Flying is secondary.
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