FedEx Hiring
01-21-2016, 05:42 AM
#1421
Layover Master
Joined APC: Jan 2013
Position: Seated
Posts: 4,320
Thank you for all the info, everyone. Even if it diminishes hopes, it's good to hear real life experiences and actual numbers. It's also good to hear reminders to go through your app with a fine toothed comb! I've certainly found a mistake or two that I thought for sure I wouldn't make.
This is what confuses me. I don't understand how networking helps when you have to get passed an HR computer app. Am I missing something? I have several internals, like many other people, so what's the difference here? Honestly confused
This is what confuses me. I don't understand how networking helps when you have to get passed an HR computer app. Am I missing something? I have several internals, like many other people, so what's the difference here? Honestly confused
01-21-2016, 10:30 AM
#1423
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2016
Position: Who cares?
Posts: 178
01-22-2016, 06:49 AM
#1424
New Hire
Joined APC: Aug 2015
Posts: 7
App has been updated regularly since 2000 after a 1st attempt at a their astronaut interview. At least 8 recs and plenty of MD and B time but only silence. Almost ready to throw the towel in and move on to more lucrative options outside of flying, but happy for some of buds getting the call while slaving away at other legacies..
01-22-2016, 08:01 AM
#1425
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2007
Position: Gear Monkey
Posts: 3,199
It use to be your internal connections got you a "meet & greet", which hopefully got you a "formal interview" later
Sometimes it took 2 weeks in between, sometimes it took 2 years
Since 2011 applicants resumes had to make it thru the "HR algorithm" first
Only then were their internal connections & recommendations helpful
Even then the numbers with excellent resumes & excellent connections exceeded the number Fedex needed to hire, so not everyone was called
It may benefit you to ask your top connection at Fedex to call the ladies in HR and seek some feedback on your résumé as it applies to their "HR algorithm"
No one knows the detailed specifics outside of HR, but as other posters have mentioned your undergraduate education, GPA, years to graduate, total hours flown are all factors they look at...and unfortunately, these are factors a pilot can no longer change or control
01-22-2016, 08:14 AM
#1426
Layover Master
Joined APC: Jan 2013
Position: Seated
Posts: 4,320
The process changed significantly around 2011
It use to be your internal connections got you a "meet & greet", which hopefully got you a "formal interview" later
Sometimes it took 2 weeks in between, sometimes it took 2 years
Since 2011 applicants resumes had to make it thru the "HR algorithm" first
Only then were their internal connections & recommendations helpful
Even then the numbers with excellent resumes & excellent connections exceeded the number Fedex needed to hire, so not everyone was called
It may benefit you to ask your top connection at Fedex to call the ladies in HR and seek some feedback on your résumé as it applies to their "HR algorithm"
No one knows the detailed specifics outside of HR, but as other posters have mentioned your undergraduate education, GPA, years to graduate, total hours flown are all factors they look at...and unfortunately, these are factors a pilot can no longer change or control
It use to be your internal connections got you a "meet & greet", which hopefully got you a "formal interview" later
Sometimes it took 2 weeks in between, sometimes it took 2 years
Since 2011 applicants resumes had to make it thru the "HR algorithm" first
Only then were their internal connections & recommendations helpful
Even then the numbers with excellent resumes & excellent connections exceeded the number Fedex needed to hire, so not everyone was called
It may benefit you to ask your top connection at Fedex to call the ladies in HR and seek some feedback on your résumé as it applies to their "HR algorithm"
No one knows the detailed specifics outside of HR, but as other posters have mentioned your undergraduate education, GPA, years to graduate, total hours flown are all factors they look at...and unfortunately, these are factors a pilot can no longer change or control
Will do. Wish I would have known how much my college GPA would matter 15 years later, not that it was that bad, but could have been better!
01-22-2016, 02:25 PM
#1427
Aviator Extraordinaire
Joined APC: Oct 2013
Position: Freight Dawg
Posts: 115
Thank you for all the info, everyone. Even if it diminishes hopes, it's good to hear real life experiences and actual numbers. It's also good to hear reminders to go through your app with a fine toothed comb! I've certainly found a mistake or two that I thought for sure I wouldn't make.
This is what confuses me. I don't understand how networking helps when you have to get passed an HR computer app. Am I missing something? I have several internals, like many other people, so what's the difference here? Honestly confused
This is what confuses me. I don't understand how networking helps when you have to get passed an HR computer app. Am I missing something? I have several internals, like many other people, so what's the difference here? Honestly confused
01-22-2016, 02:44 PM
#1428
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: Crewmember
Posts: 1,395
I was called with no internal references, no sponsor, no letters of rec, no job fair. I literally didn't know a soul that worked there. My resume isn't spectacular, probably average among friends (no Millenium Falcon flight time). Maybe I'm just proof that a blind squirrel gets a nut every once in a while, but it does happen.
Are you a white male?
01-22-2016, 02:47 PM
#1429
Layover Master
Joined APC: Jan 2013
Position: Seated
Posts: 4,320
I was called with no internal references, no sponsor, no letters of rec, no job fair. I literally didn't know a soul that worked there. My resume isn't spectacular, probably average among friends (no Millenium Falcon flight time). Maybe I'm just proof that a blind squirrel gets a nut every once in a while, but it does happen.
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