How to Ace Your Pilot Interview (Advice from a Pilot Recruiter)

In today's interview, you are going to hear from Geoff Jacobs, the Assistant Director of Operations for Silver Airways (https://www.silverairways.com); a leading regional U.S. airline operating flights between gateways in Florida, the Southeast and The Bahamas.

In this interview, I asked Geoff to share answers to the following questions:

1. His career path (very unconventional)
2. What is the hiring environment looking like for FO’s these days?
3. What do you look for/avoid when hiring FOs?
4. Is a check ride failure the kiss of death?
5. What is airline training like?
6. What other advice do you have?

✅✅ Chapters ✅✅

0:00 Intro
3:40 How Geoff got started in avation
6:30 What Geoff did when he got to 250 hours
10:00 How Geoff started his own airline with little money
12:20 Geoff's for job as a Director of Operations
13:45 Geoff's start as a pilot with Silver Airways
15:29 Geoff's thoughts on commuting
17:15 Today's hiring environment for First Officers
19:10 The top attributes Geoff looks for (and avoids) when hiring pilots
21:00 How to deal with check ride failures
23:16 Your first type rating experience
24:22 What advice would you give to other career 2.0 pilots

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