Scudrunners

The Canadian socialist tax system is oppressively burdensome. That is no secret. I pay a man with terrible social skills and zero fashion sense quite a bit of money to find all tax breaks and legal loopholes that exist since I have other sources of income than just a T4. If my entire family wasn't here, I'd bugger off somewhere more cooperative.

But you can't argue with Avcan millenials. They will not waver on their opinions, even though they just Google what Bernie Sanders has to say about something then claim it as their own. I tried the other day to have an important conversation with a young man - he didn't put down his phone and just kept saying 'OK'. However, afterwards, he went off about it on social media.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=w ... 82w58GKVdA

Beyond doubt there has been a change in the culture in society since those brought up to believe everyone is equal and we all get first prize for being here.


Which brings me back to what I have learned from the ripping I have been taking with the Avcanada posters..


It was my ego and self promoting that got me hired by those big corporations they recognized real talent in my ego and not only hired me but recommended me. It had nothing to do with flying ability or decision making ability.....remember one of the experts over there reminded me almost 100% of pilots never damage airplanes.


So to all you guys on Avcanada who have shown me why I was successful all you need to do to get to the top is work on your ego, they will then pay you top dollar to fly their airplanes.

It worked for me.  :) :) :)

In other news, what I find truly unbelievable is that this XSBANK guy is making an issue of the fact that he "does resumes" and the thread has more than 20K views in a year and a half.

Really.. WTF? You can study for and pass exams as a professional pilot but somehow you need a guy to "do" your CV and/or cover letter for you??

Mind blowing to me and I think he is actually doing the world a dis-service. As a CP, I reviewed many CV's and cover letters and I found it an interesting insight into the potential hire. Spelling, grammar, overall structure of a their introduction played a part in my decision making process and I think it is an indication of the refinement of the person you are considering. Having the letter and CV "fluffed up" is a bit misleading as far as I am concerned.

These future airline pilots that can't figure out how to write a professional CV and introduction letter will be flying us all around in our old age. Lovely.

Some people have never been taught and never had to write one before.  I taught a class at the local college aviation program which was job hunting, networking and resume writing skills.  I think it is an extremely important skill, but has to be learned. I, like you, see a lot of resumes and many of them are absolutely horrendous.  But, they've clearly never been critiqued. They just keep carpet bombing with no luck and figure it's their experience that doesn't get them the job. 


I look at a resume as nothing more than a tool to get an interview, make it basic.  Fill in the blanks in an interview. I've had guys with 250 hrs send me 4-5 page resumes.  They just don't know. I don't think xsbanks service is a poor one.  If it makes a guys resume stand out, then money well spent.

Exactly, writing a CV is a basic skill, a simple chronological summation of experience. A cover letter is more important in my mind and should be the focus. It is a start of a conversation and gives a glimpse into one's personality. I find it hard to believe that a person who can get through high school english and commercial pilot exam preparation could not put together a decent introduction and objective letter.

Again In 2016, is this the kind of thing that a commercial pilot needs to be taught by someone at a college? Hardly IMO, but then again maybe my expectations of a 20+ year old person who will be in command of many lives are too high.

Personally, I researched the topic 20 years ago and have have used an updated version of the same CV for the last 2 decades.

I saw a quote in that thread that I can't be arsed to go and find that read in effect, "the other guy charges $345… I am much less…"  Again, hard to believe that people are shelling out that sort of cash (or any) when you can teach yourself brain surgery on YouTube.

[quote author=Shiny link=topic=3813.msg10340#msg10340 date=1470758309]Its just sad that obviously there's a market for people to need to spend the money….

...sometimes one's resume writing skills don't reflect how they might be as a pilot, when you take the care and attention to do something in a spectacularly "don't give two fucks" manner, you got to know its going to shine through.
[/quote] Agreed on both counts.

I just went through about 250 resumes in the past few days for 2 positions we advertised.  I would say about 10% of them were well written. Another 10-20% were passable and the rest were simply unreadable.  One guy with many thousands of hours, 4 jobs over 18yrs still managed to take up 6 pages.


You added the term "basic". I simply disagree.  You wrote a good one yourself....perfect, but not everyone shares that skill.  Can you write a haiku?  Someone who can do that very well and learned how to do it in grade 9 might think it's pretty dumb that anyone can't simply pick up a pen and write one.  I know I can't, but I've got a pretty good resume that's been refined many times over the years.


Sometimes perception is not reality.  It's not a basic skill, it's a learned one and without critique you will never know what is holding you back.  It could be format or even a single word that you're using.  I guess the point is, does this really hurt your day that some people need a bit of guidance?

I acquired my undergrad degree 30 years ago,
and have worked at many technology companies
since then.  I also hold two ATP's and an SAC.

Somewhat incredibly, I had to put together a
resume a while back.

It fit on one page.

I've never had one longer than 1 page either, even to the point where I had to get creative with spacing and format to fill a single page. But I do have to wear a white shirt and bars so I guess that makes ME a bad guy.  >:D