Delta Hiring News
03-22-2017, 06:37 AM
#9201
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Joined APC: Dec 2005
Position: FO, looking left
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To me, the college degree requirement is all about having standards. Can you fly a plane without a degree? Sure. Are you a better, well rounded person if you get a college degree? Absolutely. Does it show the hiring team that you have the ability to take on a major effort and succeed? Absolutely.
Unless you're a self made genius who dropped out of school to start your own billion dollar company, then you are better off getting your 4 year college degree, and fortunately the hiring teams at major airlines agree.
There will never be a shortage of pilots at the majors. I don't ever see the 4 year degree requirement being dropped at a top tier major airline, and that is a good thing.
Only if you have a college degree
Unless you're a self made genius who dropped out of school to start your own billion dollar company, then you are better off getting your 4 year college degree, and fortunately the hiring teams at major airlines agree.
There will never be a shortage of pilots at the majors. I don't ever see the 4 year degree requirement being dropped at a top tier major airline, and that is a good thing.
Only if you have a college degree
03-22-2017, 12:06 PM
#9204
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03-22-2017, 12:22 PM
#9205
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Position: retired 767(dl)
Posts: 5,761
03-23-2017, 10:55 AM
#9207
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Joined APC: Jun 2006
Position: MD-88 FO
Posts: 902
In that vein...any examples out there of how much time passed for you from an internal email being sent to getting an interview invite? I think I've read a few here and there but can't find them, and 900+ pages is a lot of reading. I believe the good people in the hiring department try to have an app scored within a month of the email being sent, but any timeline for invites after that is an X factor. TYIA!
03-23-2017, 11:51 AM
#9208
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Joined APC: Dec 2016
Position: 737 First Officer
Posts: 71
I'm sure this has been answered in here but I don't really feel like digging through months and months of posts. How current does Delta expect you to be to be competitive? I have heard 100 hrs in the last year?
I'm a ex-C-17 dude with over 1000 PIC and 2500 total. I'm 5 years non-current, got picked up by SkyWest and am about to enter into IOE, which will get me about 50 hrs of 121 flying in the E175. I'm trying to determine when to have one of my internal references send in a rec to HR. If that floats my app to the top for another look I don't want to score to low and waste the opportunity and have to wait another year. Delta is where I want to be.
I'm a ex-C-17 dude with over 1000 PIC and 2500 total. I'm 5 years non-current, got picked up by SkyWest and am about to enter into IOE, which will get me about 50 hrs of 121 flying in the E175. I'm trying to determine when to have one of my internal references send in a rec to HR. If that floats my app to the top for another look I don't want to score to low and waste the opportunity and have to wait another year. Delta is where I want to be.
03-23-2017, 01:56 PM
#9209
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Joined APC: Dec 2008
Posts: 272
So just curious, does Delta recognize on line undergrad degrees for pilot hiring purposes. I have a friend who is telling his kid that online degrees have the same weight as traditional undergrad degrees in the eyes of all employers. I actually have know idea.
Thanks
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03-23-2017, 02:52 PM
#9210
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Position: Not an RJ driver anymore
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from what I understand, certain universities (University of North Dakota, Purdue, Embry Riddle) get higher points for the app than other universities. That being said, I think a degree is a degree.
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