saab2000

Just for the sake of keeping current, I am doing a new resume. The time is nigh.....

Anyway, last time I did this it was for my first job in the US ever. Now I have been working here for almost 3 years and am thinking about greener pastures.

For a resume, what time is important? I have a book on this and it seems to show flight time that in this industry is not really relevant anymore, like night time and cross-country and instrument time, etc. Almost all of my flight time ever is M/E turbine and the job I am applying for is for flying 737s.

What times should be included on the resume? Or better, what times can I leave out?

Also, about 'Personal Data', it seems as though since they can't really ask anything should I include any info? Where I used to work, this type of thing was the norm, but here in the US asking about almost anything personal is taboo.

Any thoughts?

PS - I don't expect to get this job I am applying for. But the worst that happens is that nothing happens. Plus, I expect there to be a wave of hiring in the not so distant future, and I want to be ready. This is practice as much as anything.

btwissel

you should include your TT, PIC, ME, Turbine, and any other time that is relevant to the job (i.e. dual given isn't really relevant for a corporate job)

as far as personal info, i include my name and contact info. you shouldn't include anything else. if you decide to volunteer info during the interview, that's your perogative.

the reason that we try to keep from including personal info in the US is to keep employers from not hiring you based on non-job related items. for example; your wife is sick and it's gonna cost them a lot more in insurance premiums next year, so they won't hire you. or the fact they don't like people of your "persuasion" working for their company.

Fox 1

While serving on the interview committee, I was one of the people that went through resumes. Sorry, but all of the tender care that people put into their resumes gets overlooked. With lots of resumes to go through, there just isn't time to read every sentence. The key to any resume reading (airline or otherwise) is brevity, clarity, and the big picture. Total time, PIC turbine/jet, and what kind of aircraft you have flown, along with where you flew them are the highlights. No one cares if you were a fueler, or that you got a merit badge in the boyscouts, nor every model Cessna you flew. The ideal candidate has lots of PIC jet with FMS experience. Next comes PIC in heavy turbo-prop, etc. Especially with airlines with fast growth on the horizon, PIC is key. They don't want someone in the left seat in two years with a large jet as their first command. It sucks, but that's the reality, and the market. Because of the decrease in major hiring and the increase in regional jets, there are lots of 8000JET/4000PICJET candidates out there. King Air guys...sorry dudes, you're gonna need the large tubo-prop time doing what the air carrier does, 121 passenger air carrier ops. Does that mean that you couldn't do the job? No. But when you hire, you start with the exact experience that you are hitring for, and go down from there. It's just common sense.

HR will probably throw your resume away if you put personal information on it due to fear of law suits. They have everything to lose and nothing to gain. No one is that good looking in their picture that they are going to risk anything for them.

$0.02