well hello everybody well we're back at the airport i had a awesome vacation um those of
you that didn't know i went to hawaii just for the weekend um actually just about five days
much needed r r it was great a little trip with the family last minute trip
um man it was super busy in honolulu i went there at waikiki actually bumped into a good buddy of
mine while i was out there he was on a delta trip it's kind of funny his last 767 delta trip yeah
he's going to the airbus 350. but uh saw him walking with the surfboard and uh he actually
recognized me first i was too busy chasing down a boogie board one of my kids uh lost but uh anyways
it was funny uh so we we grabbed uh another one of our buddy's surfboard uh he has two of them
there in waikiki station there so we went out and did some surfing and surfed in a couple of years
speaking of delta i like that airline actually very very nice airline to fly
on shout out to you guys but anyways he's going to the uh airbus 350 and uh his last
trip on the 7-6 got a chance to do some surfing with him i hadn't surfed in about seven years
ish uh so i was i think it was uh two for about six so i grabbed two waves out of six not too
bad but uh anyways let's go to work we picked up a turn today flying with my good buddy kelly uh so
lots of things happening in the airline world so we're gonna start talking about some of that stuff
today and what you can do to get ready for this uh hiring wave that's going on right now let's go
hey everybody so uh we are here notice the amount of stuff the captain brings
when he's just doing a turn oh my goodness oh my goodness well these days everybody you can't
trust this is true you can't trust that your trip is really the trip it ends up being it's
it's very true this is just a turn for us yeah however maybe you gotta pack for a three day
because you never know you never know i guess we'll never know that is very true ladies and
gentlemen uh you guys know him kelly hi everybody obviously picked up a trip with them again
so we're gonna we're gonna talk a little bit about hiring this one hope you guys enjoyed that
but uh the name was just give me a little bit of crap about where i put my bag apparently uh
my my little bag is not accommodating for his big ginormous kitchen
so anyways good stuff guys uh we're just getting to the airplane we're gonna load up everything
we're running a little bit behind you know it's just just the summer right it's the end of the
summer so we're gonna do what we can as always to get uh our folks to atlanta as fast and safe as
possible but uh we'll have a little bit of time hopefully once we get to atlanta uh maybe even
before when we're starting to board uh we'll start asking uh you know a little bit of questions you
know a lot of good things happening you know all the airlines have announced that they're hiring in
big numbers so we want to give you uh good advice on what to do to get ready for this wave uh maybe
you're ready for it maybe you're still building your hours but we'll just do a little bit of a q a
how does it sound kelly that sounds great whatever you said is awesome see bigger bigger all right
now i'm going to show you really come on man so you own the jump seat i know sir the captain
owns the jump seat that's right don't you all right guys we just got our clearance here we go
on the way to atlanta uh you can see we have a new loot route over there so after corona were cleared
as filed but our departure changed the 4p1 maxo so loaded that in here here's kind of what it looks
like on the route getting to atlanta a little bit of weather out here that's probably why they
routed us a little bit different 45 45 so some big ones out there but once we pick our way through
that we'll uh pretty good sailing a little bit of storm action here that's easily missed
and then uh on into atlanta where they are kind of bracketed by uh storms so we'll see
what happens in our three-hour flight on the way down there right now they've got uh
decent winds partly cloudy skies cumulonimbus distant northwest towering cumulative
and uh distant all quadrants so all right so you know them stuff like that all right we do
that here uh as we do our briefing and uh kelly is working hard at verifying fuel which we have
he's told me that i am the best foreigner today which he's just started so
but anyways we got 30 gal uh 30 000 gallons on the gas a lot of gas in our center wing so
wings are uh wings are fully topped off we're gonna have a lot of luggage heading out there
and uh again three hours five minutes our route today usually taking three hours 18 minutes so
a little bit faster than usual we'll see if we can uh make up a little bit of time we are
running a little bit delayed today so brief it up get everything going and then uh we'll start
give us some tips and some uh advice here in just uh one second once we're done with that
advice from kelly it's gonna be good we've run out of time actually we uh we were gonna get
into some in deep conversation about preparation for interviews getting your resumes ready and
things like that but unfortunately we have to go we are deadheading on the way back so that's a
bonus and why you got the camera going this is our beautiful a she's really taking good care of us
don't believe him get this chocolate chip look at that i don't need to get a chocolate chip cookie
coffee just taking care of us it's how we do here at southwestern
family that's right so anyways we are dead heading on the next leg so we will
give you a lot of good advice getting your resumes ready getting ready for uh that first impression
that you're going to have with recruiters and all that good stuff kelly is very picky so
listen to what he has to say yeah he will get you ready and thinking about the right things
also if you notice he really does need to clean his ipad let me do that right
it only took me getting on him for about five minutes for him to finally do it
that's used a lot i don't know i can see that anyways guys we'll see you in atlanta
and uh we'll we'll have that conversation there uh once we're there
because we're just dead heading back and we're done we think sorry
all right hey guys we i just arrived there was a little bit of weather that caused us to uh go
into holding um supposed to be about a 30 minute hold ended up only being about what did you say
about 20 minutes ago 15 20 minutes 15 20 minutes really early but uh one thing i want to highlight
and kelly probably talked to this too uh it was the communication that we had with our dispatcher
uh on our way over our dispatchers were way ahead of the game they saw that atlanta
was holding we're coming up with a lot of diversion plans in case we need to do that
holding fuel um kind of a good highlight of of the whole teamwork that goes along to running you know
running an airline and running uh operation safely so yeah by him giving us a heads up and allowed
for us to be very well prepared in advance to look at national weather to get our secondary
route available and ready to roll to prepare for the approach uh to come up with contingency plans
as to when we're going to execute that based upon our weather as is and and our bingo fuel so
also allowed for ernie and i to go ahead and have good communication have a shared metal model
as to what we're going to do so the execution of a great sortie or a great leg is good communication
yup that's it having that communication is key especially getting all the information again we
have dispatchers on the ground that can look at stuff real time see what's happening um there's a
lot of airplanes our first alternate was to go to birmingham but our dispatcher noticed that there's
tons of airplanes going to birmingham come up with another plan our plan was to go to nashville
if we needed to do that uh if we got to our point where we're holding that we got to our
bingo fuel we had to head out so a lot of good communication i think it went out really well i
just wanted to highlight that for you guys it's kind of the key to running a good operation and
working together as a team not only in the cockpit but with our guys there also
at dispatch uh they're in our knock as well so kudos to those guys
yeah we're gonna go uh grab our other flight maybe we'll uh we'll talk to you guys here in a second
all right everyone we got a little bit of time uh our deadhead is not for another half an hour
or so so uh actually it's not even landing for half an hour so we've got a little bit of time
let's talk about some big things that are happening um your first application or maybe
this is your third application all the airlines are getting ready to hire right now if not already
announced that they're hiring you know i know delta american and united has announced some
pretty big numbers we've announced some pretty big numbers for uh this year as well and going into uh
next is probably going to be the same so what do you do to get your application to stand out
from other applications one of my things that i like seeing
when it passes through the desk is making sure that it is neat whether that's handwritten
and if your handwriting is like mine it's pretty terrible making it into a uh putting
it into a word processor whether you use adobe or or whatever you're using scanning it in and then
typing it up that way that way when your recruiter or when the hiring person gets your application
it's very neat and orderly what do you what do you think about that kelly i would 100 agree uh
as well as being correct being having everything match have your hours match make sure you go
through your logbooks make sure everything is tight where there's no discrepancies
as to where there's going to be any question uh as to whether that is the accurate time
or not frequently we do come across folks where there are some inconsistencies and unfortunately
if there's large inconsistencies it doesn't work out well so i wouldn't want that to happen for you
so the best thing you could do is go through your logbook and make sure everything is tight and it
matches what you're presenting on your package that you're submitting and because that's the
actually the easy part of the interview if you can have everything neat orderly and it all matches
and then the interview goes really easy really quick and we get to know you
as opposed to having to comb through your logbook and see where the error occurred so the best thing
you can do is make it easy on yourself have make a nice presentation for the logbook interview and
and then that also flows through with the other interviews as well and things will go nice and
smooth it's when there are some errors where it starts to become uncomfortable for the candidate
and and frustrating for the interviewing so uh he has to say so we don't want that for you
uh if you just attention to detail is key and it's key up here as well
because if we don't have attention to detail with your paperwork on the interview
more than likely you're not going to have attention to detail up here when it really counts
so that's something definitely to pay attention to yeah that's a really good point attention to
detail is humongous again like kelly brought up if you're not putting that level of attention
to detail into your application which is really your first look or you're putting
your best foot forward that's the first time that your company whether you're applying to a
cfi job or you're applying to your final job that attention to detail is huge so it it goes
it speaks to who you are if you're really attentive to all the fine details you're
going to be attentive to all the details that require are required of you to fly this airplane
or other airplanes like it so yeah i would agree with kelly especially in your logbook
i mean you're doing it on your downtime it's not you're not doing it in an interview you're
getting all this paperwork done whether it's logbook application make sure that it's filled
out to detail some of the things that i've seen were uh phone numbers you know for your prior
records giving phone numbers if you're a military guy you're just giving the squadron commander's
desk number from six years ago that's really not what we're looking for we're looking for
someone that can attest to you working there six years ago so if you have to grab a cell
phone number for somebody um do that uh don't just leave ghost phone numbers that's probably
another big thing kel what do you think some more stuff on getting ready for applica applying
getting ready to apply to airlines getting ready to uh maybe interview some of the other videos
you know something else when you do get the interview uh earlier apart you get a chuckle
about this but one of the easiest things you can do is buy yourself a nice suit nice shirt nice tie
so polish shoes at least if not brand new shoes looking sharp is the easiest thing you could do
for the interview and then if you look good you're gonna feel good and if you get your stuff together
and everything's tight you're gonna do great look good feel good i think i've
said that before i think said that too it's a good thing we're gonna put it on a t-shirt
yeah that makes it easy so uh i would highly recommend yeah do do exactly what ernie did and
and what i had to do in order to get here and then your career will be successful if you can get that
application tight make everything match presentation is everything because that's
our first impression of you so all too often people fail at that unfortunately which is one
of the easier things and you don't want to come in with a negative impression you want
us to have a great impression uh a glowing impression of you just from your paperwork
and then it's just easy after that right all you need to do is have a conversation with
us like you're like you're at starbucks having having some coffee with one of your buddies and
being able to essentially sell yourself and and tell us why you are the best candidate to for
whatever airline you want to be in uh airline or even cfi jobs yeah i mean these these these things
these techniques can go even for your first job and it carries on through the rest of the time so
highlighting the big parts um attention to detail filling out the application make sure it's legible
making sure your logbook is neat and tight so when you transfer transfer those times onto the
application or onto some spreadsheets that we may require they're all available in there and
the last thing is making sure that you look good when you go in there you don't buy a suit that's
two sizes too big or you know from 15 years ago that's kind of outdated get something that looks
good because you want to present yourself in the best possible life for that job that you
really want and you're showing the recruiters the interviewers that you really want this job and
that you're you're serious about this shop so um those are kind of the big things yeah i don't know
kelly do you have anything else you want to add i would just say that just remember the more you
have that attention to detail early on in your flying the beginning of your flying
career whether it be just starting out to get you private or going through all your ratings cfi
and beyond if you can keep your logbook tight every single time make sure you make those entries
and make it looking good whether it be manually entering it or having the electronic logbook
it just makes it that much easier when you finally do get the interview to whatever job
that you've applied for so it'll make your life very easy if you do that early on so
uh good luck to everybody yeah good luck everybody i just wanted to do that really quick uh i know it
is getting ready to go crazy out there with all the interviewing and all that good stuff so um
you know just a little bit of advice for us again it's just coming from kelly and i not sponsored by
anybody or anything like that we just want to see you guys succeed and uh get off on the right foot
so we are gonna head out to our deadhead flight and head back home and call it a day um
i do have another trip tomorrow that i picked up too so all right guys hey thanks for watching this
little bit i hope you guys got some value out of it if you did make sure you hit the like button
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right guys stay humble stay hungry keep flying jobs are coming and uh we'll see you next week
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