rustypilot

If I was called in for multiple regional interviews in a month's time. Would you sit through all the interviews (taking into consideration that all the interview dates are seperate) at once or spread them out? What would you say to the employer when you have other regionals lined up for interviews?

rickair7777

This requires careful management...you can usually somewhat control when you interview, but if you are offered a class date it may be immediately and may have to make a choice: accept or decline.

First off do you have interview(s) at companies which you do not want work for (ie mesa, gojet)?

If so, do that interview first as a warmup. 121 interviews can be rough, and it's easy to get flustered and blow one due to inexperience. A practice interview can really help out for the interview that you actually care about.

Next, rank the airlines according to your preference...this is easy, unlike civilian employment an airline will not negotiate with you. The pay and benefits will be common knowledge, and you can get a good idea of where you will based initially.

Now try to interview at your first choice...if you don't get the job, move on to number two and so on. If you get a job offer from a lower-ranked company while still waiting to hear from your first choice you accept the job. You can then carefully attempt to delay the class date until you hear from #1.

If you accept an offer and later get a better offer it is OK to call and decline the original offer...you can even do this after you start class but that gets a little sketchy (you'll have to explain it to future employers since you cannot ever deny working for a 121 operation even if it was only for a few days).

Also I would recommend not mentioning that you are interviewing elsewhere...there is no benefit to that. The current hiring environment is not the historical norm...the captain who does your interview probably had 3000+ hours of night freight when HE got the job at that regional and it was probably the only interview he ever got called for. He may have the old school attitude that you should feel very lucky just to be there. You're fortunate to have choices, but don't advertise the fact.

boeingt7

I would say that going to interviews and seeing what other companies have to offer as well as getting interview experience only helps and educates you in your search for finding the right place to go. after interviewing, you might suprise yourself and choose to go with a company that you initially had no intentions of working for. about telling them if you've interviewed with other companies, i would tell them the truth, i'm not sure why they would hold that fact against you in determining whether or not to hire you, actually i think that getting other interviews kinda implies to them that you are infact marketable to other regionals and that company might say hey, look at this guy, other places are giving him chances, so he must have something good going for him and something good to offer their (and our) company.