This was one and only thing that always annoyed me when reading pprune. Everyone was moaning that there are no jobs and only people who will get one are either experienced FOs or P2F guys who were lucky enough to get on to LH seat of Ryanair, Easyjet or similar gigs one or two years ago.
Hang on there is a word outside of UK and outside of Europe!
Well, this is the attitude I am starting my job search :)
So I need decent CV, box of email addresses where to send it, two boxes of contacts in aviation industry to put my CV on right desk at right time, few miracles and loads of time.
CV is bit of moving beast but quick search on internet gives me an idea how pilots CV should look like.
"Scalpel please" and my well looked after professional CV is torn apart and than stitched again with some numbers from LogTen Pro.
Now this is the first time I am using my contact list - working in bmi airline proves to be useful and few fellow pilots are being "tasked" to review and comment on my first CV draft.
Did you know there are 87 AOC holders including 19 big boys in UK only (and excluding choppers)
Well it is true and whole list including contacts is now in my dropbox ready to go.
Bestaviatin.net, pilotcareersusa.com, flightwork.com and other similar websites proves to be good source of information about opportunities away from home as well as before mentioned pprune if you can read between the lines :)
So my list of operators is growing but who else can help?
One good thing on company going bust or closing down is that your colleagues and friends start looking for new job all around the world in same type of industry you worked together - well, most of them.
So LinkedIn comes handy as well and I am exploring different paths for my CV to get on different desks in different companies.
Some of them are dead ends but some of them provides me with hope at least.
Now the miracles - well I don't believe in miracles so I'll succeed or die trying!
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