SkyWest group interviews

[subpilot]

People pay $2K - $6K for a CRJ prep course!

WTF???

[k4air]

Originally Posted by descout

Just was wondering if the only way to get hired was to attend a group hiring. Or can you submitt your resume and wait for a call? Also I am sitting at 990TT 190ME If I put in 10 hrs early will they boot me? I know some airlines will take the extra over the multi requirement and put it towards the TT. Example in my case... requirements are 1000 and 100 for SkyWest, so take ten of my ME and count it as TT and say my new times are 1000TT 180ME which now meets the requirements. I have heard of airlines doing this but not SkyWest, I heard they stick pretty hard to their set mins. What ya think??

As said above, the TT and instrument time are hard minimums. I haven't met anyone who got hired with less but I did meet some that got sent home for being a few hours short.

The group interview is not mandatory and people get called in for an interview without attending one. This seems to be especially true if you have a good contact within the company. However, my experience was that it will greatly increase your chance of getting an interview. I had a pilot walk my resume in AND my chief flight instructor talking to the hiring manager several times. Even though SkyWest desperately looking for pilots I did not get called. After 2 months of waiting finally I attandet a group interview (they call that 'open house') and had an interview 3 days later. Almost everyone who showed up and gave a decent impression (appropriately dressed, met the minimum requirements, no bad attitude) was invited to SLC. So in my oppinion, if you are seriously interested in SkyWest, it is definitively worth to invest the time (and money for the flight and hotel).

What to expect: A company presentation, a Q&A session and a brief 1:1 interview. For me it lasted about 5 minutes and was almost exclusively HR questions (see AviationInterviews.com). Based on the people I talked to this is pretty much the standart program. However, there were some people that went to the open house in SLC and did the sim and the technical interview right there. So it is a good idea to be well prepared ;-)

Go for it. It is great to work for SkyWest and your chances to get hired were probably never better than right now. Good luck.